At the turn of the last century, military analysts began to notice U.S. strategy selection seemed driven by casualty risk, with optimal strategies being those that yielded the fewest potential killed, wounded, and missing. In other words, the military yield of a strategy was subordinated to casualty considerations and these considerations appeared exaggerated, if not outlandish at the time. Have Iraq and Afghanistan moved us away from subordinating strategy to casualty worries or is this argument worth revisiting? This collection includes the views of Jeffrey Record, Karl P. Mueller, Charles...

There is a weapon that looms large in the history of arms, one that has largely disappeared from memory: the warhammer. For over 300 years, across Asia, Europe, and even North Africa, the warhammer was the close-combat weapon of choice. The high-tech plate armor of the 14th and 15th Centuries stood absolutely no chance against it. The mass-produced plate armor of the 16th and 17th Centuries fared even worse against what is one of history's most successful weapon designs. Small, almost dainty in appearance, the warhammer lives on today in fantasy, in movies, and games in an imaginary giant,...

Fans of series like The Maze Runner, The Hunger Games, and Divergent will love N.G. Simsion. Zero prefers to keep his life simple. Although he is easily one of the largest and cleverest boys in his year, he runs from any sign of confrontation. His best friend-his only friend-is nothing like him. Obsessed with the world outside of the city walls, Lefty is always pushing the boundaries set by society's Elite. It's only a matter of time before they have gone too far and they're forced to face the horrors of the "old world" on their own. Can they survive and learn to coexist with the dangerous...