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This War Really Matters: Inside the Fight for Defense Dollars
ISBN: 9781568024608 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Veteran military correspondent George C. Wilson paints a realistic picture of how defense budgets are constructed and approved. His fast-paced narrative interwoven with personal stories and insights from the major players gives readers an inside look at the battle between the 105th Congress and the Pentagon as they agreed on a 250 billion dollar defense budget.
Accessible in level and style, Wilson's journalistic prose demystifies the Realpolitik among highly partisan members of Congress, the individual armed forces, as well as civilian and military leaders, thus giving readers a sense of... Veteran military correspondent George C. Wilson paints a realistic picture of how defense budgets are constructed and approved. His fast-paced narrati...
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Homeland Security: A Documentary History
ISBN: 9781568028842 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Homeland Security: A Documentary History provides a rich and relevant exploration of the concept of homeland security throughout the nation's history, leading up to an examination of the new Homeland Security Department and its mission and impact. The Homeland Security Department was created in 2002 and involved the largest restructuring of the federal government in over forty years. Yet American institutions and officials have responded to homeland security issues throughout the life of the nation, for example, with the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. Homeland Security explores the concept...
Homeland Security: A Documentary History provides a rich and relevant exploration of the concept of homeland security throughout the nation's history,...
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587,73 |
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National Security Issues in Science, Law, and Technology
ISBN: 9781574449082 / Angielski / Twarda / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The tragedy of 9/11 placed homeland security and the prevention of further attacks into the central focus of our national consciousness. With so many avenues of terror open to our enemies in terms of mode, medium, and location, effective management and mitigation of threat must be grounded in objective risk assessment. The structure of national security decisions should be premised on decision theory and science with minimal political posturing or emotional reactivisim.
National Security Issues in Science, Law, and Technology demonstrates a mature look at a frightening subject and... The tragedy of 9/11 placed homeland security and the prevention of further attacks into the central focus of our national consciousness. With so many ...
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930,57 |
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European Security Institutions: Ready for the Twenty First Century?
ISBN: 9781574882117 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Euro-Atlantic security setting has undergone fundamental changes. Institutions founded during the Cold War have been adapted, sometimes in anticipation of new challenges and in other cases in response to events. The report examines institutional development during the past decade. Case studies, representing "snapshots" of change, form an important part of the study. Included are NATO, the European Union, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the G-8. Addressed are numerous questions about whether these...
In the years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Euro-Atlantic security setting has undergone fundamental changes. Institutions founded during...
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58,73 |
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Brassey's Eurasian East Europ (H)
ISBN: 9781574882483 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Daniel N. Nelson and Ustina Markus offer the first in an annual report on the security-related actions, events and trends in the Baltic states, the Balkans, Central Europe, and Central Asia. Contributors include officials from the U.S. Army War College, the Rand Corporation, the National Defense University, Radio Free Europe, and the Carnegie Endowment.
Daniel N. Nelson and Ustina Markus offer the first in an annual report on the security-related actions, events and trends in the Baltic states, the Ba...
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186,11 |
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Brassey's Eurasian and East European Security Yearbook: 2000 Edition
ISBN: 9781574882490 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Daniel N. Nelson and Ustina Markus offer the first in an annual report on the security-related actions, events and trends in the Baltic states, the Balkans, Central Europe, and Central Asia. Contributors include officials from the U.S. Army War College, the Rand Corporation, the National Defense University, Radio Free Europe, and the Carnegie Endowment.
Daniel N. Nelson and Ustina Markus offer the first in an annual report on the security-related actions, events and trends in the Baltic states, the Ba...
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117,50 |
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The Role of Naval Forces in 21st Century Operations
ISBN: 9781574882568 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leading defense analysts, politicians, and military officers examine the evolving nature of conflict and how it will affect U.S. naval doctrine, training, and procurement. Contributors include: Charles C. Krulnak, former commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps; David Ochmanek, senior defense analyst at the Rand Corporation; and Senator John F. Kerry.
Leading defense analysts, politicians, and military officers examine the evolving nature of conflict and how it will affect U.S. naval doctrine, train...
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141,98 |
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Secrecy Wars: National Security, Privacy, and the Public's Right to Know
ISBN: 9781574883244 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The public and the media are fascinated by U.S. government secrets, real and imagined, yet very few people know how the process of obtaining formerly secret documents works. Secrecy Wars is a look inside the American secrecy system as it is accessed through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act. With its perspective that of a political legal drama, this important new book will not only entertain and inform but also influence the legal, journalism, and political communities.
The public and the media are fascinated by U.S. government secrets, real and imagined, yet very few people know how the process of obtaining formerly ...
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112,60 |
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Brassey's Eurasian and East European Security Yearbook
ISBN: 9781574883299 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering a regular and accessible source of longitudinal information that emphasizes the previous year's developments, Brassey's Eurasian Security Yearbook details trends in security policies and shifts in personnel responsibilities and strategic emphases. An "analytical annual," it describes not only what happened in specific countries but also considers competing or alternative reasons why the events occurred.
The contributors to the year 2002 edition include regional security experts from the U.S. Army War College, the Rand Corporation, National Defense University, the... Offering a regular and accessible source of longitudinal information that emphasizes the previous year's developments, Brassey's Eurasian Security ...
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Brassey's Eurasian Security Yearbook
ISBN: 9781574883305 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering a regular and accessible source of longitudinal information that emphasizes the previous year's developments, Brassey's Eurasian Security Yearbook details trends in security policies and shifts in personnel responsibilities and strategic emphases. An "analytical annual," it describes not only what happened in specific countries but also considers competing or alternative reasons why the events occurred.
The contributors to the year 2002 edition include regional security experts from the U.S. Army War College, the Rand Corporation, National Defense University, the... Offering a regular and accessible source of longitudinal information that emphasizes the previous year's developments, Brassey's Eurasian Security ...
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107,70 |
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Brassey's Central and East European Security Yearbook
ISBN: 9781574883312 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering a regular and accessible source of longitudinal information that emphasizes the previous year's developments, Brassey's Central and East European Security Yearbook details trends in security policies and shifts in personnel responsibilities and strategic emphases. An "analytical annual," it describes not only what happened in specific countries but also considers competing or alternative reasons why the events occurred.
Offering a regular and accessible source of longitudinal information that emphasizes the previous year's developments, Brassey's Central and East E...
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Brassey's Central and East European Security Yearbook
ISBN: 9781574883329 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering a regular and accessible source of longitudinal information that emphasizes the previous year's developments, Brassey's Central and East European Security Yearbook details trends in security policies and shifts in personnel responsibilities and strategic emphases. An "analytical annual," it describes not only what happened in specific countries but also considers competing or alternative reasons why the events occurred.
Offering a regular and accessible source of longitudinal information that emphasizes the previous year's developments, Brassey's Central and East E...
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117,50 |
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Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Emergent Threats in an Evolving Security Environment
ISBN: 9781574885859 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For three decades, arms control treaties have provided a legal basis for limiting and reducing long-range nuclear weapons. However, thousands of sub-strategic, or tactical, nuclear weapons (TNWs) are not monitored or controlled by any existing treaties or formal agreements, even though they can pose security risks equal to or exceeding those of strategic nuclear weapons.
As the world has seen, the rise of international terrorism highlights the potential dangers of tactical nuclear weapons. Because they can be relatively small and portable--particularly but not exclusively in the... For three decades, arms control treaties have provided a legal basis for limiting and reducing long-range nuclear weapons. However, thousands of sub-s...
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102,81 |
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The Future of War: Organizations as Weapons
ISBN: 9781574886306 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many analysts have heralded the U.S. military's Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), a qualitative improvement in operational concepts and weapons that transforms the nature and character of warfare. Focusing on military technology, most argue that the new sensor, surveillance, communications, and computational technologies will usher in a period in which U.S. military capabilities will far exceed those of potential competitors. Developments in such fields as nanotechnology, robotics, and genetic engineering will greatly influence new weapons designs of the twenty-first century. Many analysts have heralded the U.S. military's Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), a qualitative improvement in operational concepts and weapons th...
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Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror
ISBN: 9781574888492 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though U.S. leaders try to convince the world of their success in fighting al Qaeda, one member of the U.S. intelligence community would like to inform the public that we are, in fact, losing the war on terror. Further, until U.S. leaders recognize the errant path they have irresponsibly chosen, he says, our enemies will only grow stronger.
According to the author Michael Scheuer, the greatest danger for Americans confronting the Islamist threat is to believe--at the urging of U.S. leaders--that Muslims attack us for what we are and what we think rather than for what we do.... Though U.S. leaders try to convince the world of their success in fighting al Qaeda, one member of the U.S. intelligence community would like to infor...
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153,95 |
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Counterdeception Principles and Applications for National Security
ISBN: 9781580539357 / Angielski / Twarda / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today, the use of denial and deception (D&D) is being used to compensate for an opponents military superiority, to obtain or develop weapons of mass destruction, and to violate international agreements and sanctions. This technical volume offers a comprehensive overview of the concepts and methods that underlie strategic deception and provides an in-depth understanding of counter deception.
Today, the use of denial and deception (D&D) is being used to compensate for an opponents military superiority, to obtain or develop weapons of mass d...
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683,27 |
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Johnson, McNamara, and the Birth of SALT and the ABM Treaty 1963-1969
ISBN: 9781581120622 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Understanding International Counter Terrorism: A Professional's Guide to the Operational Art
ISBN: 9781581129052 / Angielski / Miękka / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Understanding of Operational Counter Terrorism is one serious effort to lay out a comprehensive strategy of how to deal with a whole gamut of possible terrorist incidents by using a language that any person or first responders like policemen, security personnel, firemen, paramedics, etc. can understand. This guide covers everything from bombings and hostage- taking, to NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) Terrorism, what needs to be done before, during, and after an event. This manual combines what minimally needs to be understood about Operational Counter- Terrorism by the government-...
Understanding of Operational Counter Terrorism is one serious effort to lay out a comprehensive strategy of how to deal with a whole gamut of possible...
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Toward an Open Tomb: The Crisis of Israeli Society
ISBN: 9781583671092 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the breakdown of the Oslo peace process in 2000 and the beginning of the second Intifada, conflict has escalated in Israel/Palestine and come to seem irreversible. The overwhelming power of the Israeli military has been unleashed against a largely defenseless population in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza, driving Palestinians to despair and to desperate measures of retaliation. The author of this book, Michel Warschawski, has for many decades been active in building alliances of Jews and Palestinians to oppose the Israeli occupation. In this book, however, he... Since the breakdown of the Oslo peace process in 2000 and the beginning of the second Intifada, conflict has escalated in Israel/Palestine and come... |
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
ISBN: 9781585441051 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Americans consider themselves a peaceful people. Yet every generation since colonial times has taken part in war. Why? Does something in our democratic creed lead us repeatedly into hostilities? Does the American sense of mission demand that we take up arms to transform the world into our own image? Do baser motives drive national policy? Is there, in short, a distinctive American motive and style of war?
Distinguished diplomatic historian Robert A. Divine considers these questions in a thoughtful retrospective of the wars of the twentieth century. He examines the process of going to war... Americans consider themselves a peaceful people. Yet every generation since colonial times has taken part in war. Why? Does something in our democrati...
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