ilość książek w kategorii: 11458
Korean Military Advisory Group: Insights for Future Security Force Assistance Efforts
ISBN: 9781523224562 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book aims to identify lessons learned for future Security Force Assistance efforts by studying America's advisory mission in South Korea. After the invasion of South Korea by North Korea on 25 June 1950, the Republic of Korea (R.O.K.) Army lay shattered and dispersed across South Korea. Embedded Korean Military Advisory Group (KMAG) advisers salvaged remnants of the R.O.K. Army from total defeat and from 1950-1953 KMAG worked diligently to recruit, train, and equip a twenty-division army comprising 576,000 personnel capable of modern combined arms warfare. South Korea served as the...
This book aims to identify lessons learned for future Security Force Assistance efforts by studying America's advisory mission in South Korea. After t...
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58,39 zł |
Die Voelkerrechtliche Klassifizierung Bewaffneter Konflikte: Konflikttypen, Abgrenzungen Sowie Rechtsfolgen Und Deren Auswirkungen Auf Die Planung Und
ISBN: 9783631669518 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mit seinem hochaktuellen Thema richtet sich Karl Edlinger an militarische Kommandanten, aber auch an politische Entscheidungstrager und weltpolitisch interessierte Leser. Im Buch wird der Rechtsrahmen fur moderne Konfliktsituationen abgeleitet und die Konsequenzen fur Planung und Durchfuhrung militarischer Operationen dargestellt. Das Volkerrecht bestimmt je nach Typus eines bewaffneten Konflikts die Rechte und Pflichten der beteiligten Streitkrafte. Diese werden immer haufiger in atypischen Konfliktsituationen eingesetzt: friedensunterstutzende Einsatze der Vereinten Nationen, Kampf gegen...
Mit seinem hochaktuellen Thema richtet sich Karl Edlinger an militarische Kommandanten, aber auch an politische Entscheidungstrager und weltpolitisch ...
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440,28 zł |
Doppelstaat Ddr: Menschenrechtsverletzungen Der Deutschen Volkspolizei
ISBN: 9783631346556 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 387 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nach dem jahen Ende des -real-existierenden Sozialismus- in der DDR scheinen die Voraussetzungen fur einen Vergleich der Totalitarismustheorien nicht nur gunstiger, sondern die von E. Fraenkel formulierte These vom Doppelstaat kann auch daraufhin gepruft werden, ob sie auf die SED-Diktatur ubertragen werden kann. Ziel der Bemuhungen ist es, die Mechanismen, Regeln und Entwicklungsphasen herauszuarbeiten, die Diktaturen aufgrund eines historischen Anspruches durchlaufen. So wurde die Kaderpolitik der Deutschen Volkspolizei und ihre Auswirkungen auf den politischen Strafvollzug und die...
Nach dem jahen Ende des -real-existierenden Sozialismus- in der DDR scheinen die Voraussetzungen fur einen Vergleich der Totalitarismustheorien nicht ...
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420,19 zł |
The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development
ISBN: 9780333687130 / Angielski / Twarda / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is dedicated to the implications of the new regionalism for global security and development. The fourth volume in the five-volume The New Regionalism Series, it features contributions from the UNU/WIDER project on new regionalism. Earlier volumes have dealt with the relationship between globalization and regionalization as well as various national perspectives from the North and from the South on the process of regionalization. The fifth volume will be published separately next year.
This book is dedicated to the implications of the new regionalism for global security and development. The fourth volume in the five-volume The New Re...
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194,52 zł |
The Foundations of Defensive Defence
ISBN: 9780333529997 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection of papers, the theory of defensive strategy and the ways of implementing it are explored by scholars and military professionals from East and West. These papers are a result of workshops organised by the Pugwash conferences on science and world affairs.
In this collection of papers, the theory of defensive strategy and the ways of implementing it are explored by scholars and military professionals fro...
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194,52 zł |
Aftermath of the Ukrainian Crisis
ISBN: 9781138684744 / Angielski / Twarda / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The crisis in Ukraine that began in November 2013 constitutes a turning point in Euro-Atlantic security with potential global repercussions. It is the most significant security problem between Russia and the West in the post Cold War period and the crisis has marked a new era in global politics. Contributions in this edited volume attempt to address a number of key aspects of the Ukrainian issue. How does the crisis impact upon Black Sea geopolitics and on regional governance? How can EU Russia relations evolve under the new multipolar system? How is NATO affected? How important is the... The crisis in Ukraine that began in November 2013 constitutes a turning point in Euro-Atlantic security with potential global repercussions. It is ... |
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660,05 zł |
A New Strategy for Complex Warfare: Combined Effects in East Asia
ISBN: 9781604979206 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book develops new theory for superior strategy in complex warfare. The approach is comprehensive and practical, and it is applied to three contemporary security crises involving the United States, China, the Koreas, and Japan. Beginning with existing theories on strategy and culture, a new interpretation of "combined effects strategy" is introduced based on research and years of experience. Drawing from security theory and military doctrine, combined effects strategy is presented as a comprehensive process that subsumes the prevailing paradigm of combined arms. The entire book is written...
This book develops new theory for superior strategy in complex warfare. The approach is comprehensive and practical, and it is applied to three contem...
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144,05 zł |
Nuclear Terrorism: A Threat Assessment for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781349411351 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Will the twenty-first century see terrorist fingers on the nuclear trigger? How likely is it terrorists will obtain weapons of mass destruction? What factors would determine their decision to use them? Gavin Cameron assesses the causes for, and implications of, the escalating lethality of terrorism. The growing opportunities for nuclear proliferation, primarily arising from the collapse of the Soviet Union are explained. The book concludes that the organisational and psychological pressures within terrorist groups and the changing nature of political violence combined with the heightened...
Will the twenty-first century see terrorist fingers on the nuclear trigger? How likely is it terrorists will obtain weapons of mass destruction? What ...
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583,65 zł |
Explaining Euro-Paralysis: Why Europe Is Unable to ACT in International Politics
ISBN: 9781349406401 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about Europe's apparent inability to cope with the complex international environment. Why does the Union fail to create a workable (sound) Common Foreign and Security Policy? Five distinct explanations for Euro-paralysis are considered, focusing on power politics, the assertion of national interests, misguided institutional designs, a crisis of modern democracy, and the post-Cold War conceptual confusion.
This book is about Europe's apparent inability to cope with the complex international environment. Why does the Union fail to create a workable (sound...
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389,09 zł |
A European Security Architecture After the Cold War: Questions of Legitimacy
ISBN: 9781349404322 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A European Security Architecture after the Cold War provides a critical account of the re-projection and redefinition of Western values and security institutions in the post-Coldwar era. This transformation is explored in three stages. The first stage covers the period 1990-91 and explains the preservation of a western security community' inherited from the Cold War, through a process of institutional reconstruction largely carried out on paper. The second stage from 1991 to 1992 sees the incorporation of a purpose' for these institutions as a framework for the implementation of collective...
A European Security Architecture after the Cold War provides a critical account of the re-projection and redefinition of Western values and security i...
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389,09 zł |
War: A Matter of Principles
ISBN: 9781349259588 / Angielski / Miękka / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author has carried out a searching review of the principles promulgated by the British and American Defence Forces, in order to assess their continuing validity and relevance to warfare in the late 1990s and the 21st century. Recognising that principles will be applied by commanders to meet specific situations in the field he extends this study to embrace leadership and training for leadership and command. In the final chapter he addresses the moral responsibilities of those exercising command of their fellow countrymen and other assigned forces.
The author has carried out a searching review of the principles promulgated by the British and American Defence Forces, in order to assess their conti...
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389,09 zł |
The Crash of Ruin: American Combat Soldiers in Europe During World War II
ISBN: 9781349145249 / Angielski / Miękka / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a compelling account of how America's combat soldiers experienced Europe during World War II. It paints a vivid picture of the GIs' struggles with its natural surroundings, their confrontations with its soldiers, their encounters with its civilians, and their reactions to uncovering the holocaust. The book shows how these harrowing experiences convinced the American soldiers that Europe's collapse was not just the result of the war, but also of the Old World's deep-seated political cynicism, economic stagnation, and cultural decadence.
This book offers a compelling account of how America's combat soldiers experienced Europe during World War II. It paints a vivid picture of the GIs' s...
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194,52 zł |
The European Community and the Security Dilemma, 1979-92
ISBN: 9781349142477 / Angielski / Miękka / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book shows how the relationship between security and integration in Western Europe depends upon an enduring implicit bargain between the US and its European allies. Despite internal and external pressures to develop a European security and defence identity distinct from NATO in the 1980s and 1990s, EC member states have consistently rejected supranational integration in the areas of security and defence. Despite considerable European dissatisfaction with American leadership of NATO, Europe has continued to accept that leadership even after the end of the Cold War and the signing of the...
This book shows how the relationship between security and integration in Western Europe depends upon an enduring implicit bargain between the US and i...
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194,52 zł |
Averting a Latin American Nuclear Arms Race: New Prospects and Challenges for Argentine-Brazil Nuclear Co-Operation
ISBN: 9781349121014 / Angielski / Miękka / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Viewed by experts as being on the threshold of acquiring nuclear weapons, Argentina and Brazil have recently taken steps to assure each other their nuclear programs are entirely peaceful. This reports on a 1989 conference that anticipated these events and explored the approaches being taken today.
Viewed by experts as being on the threshold of acquiring nuclear weapons, Argentina and Brazil have recently taken steps to assure each other their nu...
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194,52 zł |
Changing Threat Perceptions and Military Doctrines
ISBN: 9781349120628 / Angielski / Miękka / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Owing to the revolutionary changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, the threat perceptions of the East and West have vanished. The contributors to this volume report this social process and try to identify some of the new threat perceptions which will arise.
Owing to the revolutionary changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, the threat perceptions of the East and West have vanished. The contributors...
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194,52 zł |
Internal Conflict and Governance
ISBN: 9781349222483 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Violence, war and internal conflicts have assumed a new intensity with the decline of the Cold War. There are over 32 civil wars going on today. Our world may well witness over 100 million refugees in the year 2000 as a direct result of internal wars. This volume consists of case studies and theory-oriented papers dealing with Asia, Africa and Latin America and the Middle East. Taken together, they spell out implications of wide general interest, providing a comparative basis for a systematic approach to conflict transformation.
Violence, war and internal conflicts have assumed a new intensity with the decline of the Cold War. There are over 32 civil wars going on today. Our w...
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389,09 zł |
Weapons Without a Cause: The Politics of Weapons Acquisition in the United State
ISBN: 9781349251117 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are certain weapons acquired in the United States and others not? Theo Farrell addresses this question by examining the strategic, institutional and budgetary issues surrounding four major weapon programmes. Extensive use is made of primary sources in analysing the origins, development and outcomes of these programmes. This book presents alarming evidence to show how the military services manipulate weapons acquisition to suit their own ends rather than national security. It also analyses how Congress, motivated by concerns over cost, comes to play a greater role in shaping programme...
Why are certain weapons acquired in the United States and others not? Theo Farrell addresses this question by examining the strategic, institutional a...
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350,18 zł |
Business Theft and Fraud: Detection and Prevention
ISBN: 9781498742436 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book will take a look at the various types of fraud and theft that threaten the business community. Numerous books have been written on specific threats, theft and fraud that target the business community, but most fail to take a broad look at the many potential threats that overarch the community. This book will take such a look and provide the reader with
This book will take a look at the various types of fraud and theft that threaten the business community. Numerous books have been written on specif... |
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319,82 zł |
Choices: Inside the Making of India's Foreign Policy
ISBN: 9780815729105 / Angielski / Miękka / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A look behind the scenes of some of India's most critical foreign policy decisions by the country's former foreign secretary and national security adviser. Every country must make choices about foreign policy and national security. Sometimes those choices turn out to have been correct, other times not. In this insider's account, Shivshankar Menon describes some of the most crucial decisions India has faced during his long career in government--and how key personalities often had to make choices based on incomplete information under the pressure of fast-moving events. Menon...
A look behind the scenes of some of India's most critical foreign policy decisions by the country's former foreign secretary and national security ...
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106,84 zł |
Gaither Committee: Eisenhower & Cold War
ISBN: 9780814250051 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the United States struggled to respond to the Soviet Union's launch of "Sputnik" in 1957, President Eisenhower received a top secret report prepared by a committee of leading scientific, business, and military experts. The panel, called the Gaither Committee in recognition of its first chair, H. Rowan Gaither, Jr., emphasized the inadequacy of U.S. defense measures designed to protect the civilian population and the vulnerability of the country's strategic nuclear forces in the event of a Soviet attack. The committee concluded that in the event of a surprise Soviet attack, the United...
As the United States struggled to respond to the Soviet Union's launch of "Sputnik" in 1957, President Eisenhower received a top secret report prepare...
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204,40 zł |