Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World
ISBN: 9781510728813 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American military bases encircle the globe. More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States still stations its troops at nearly a thousand locations in foreign lands. These bases are usually taken for granted or overlooked entirely, a little-noticed part of the Pentagon's vast operations. But in an eye-opening account, Base Nation shows that the worldwide network of bases brings with it a panoply of ills and actually makes the nation less safe in the long run.
As David Vine demonstrates, the overseas bases raise geopolitical tensions and provoke widespread... American military bases encircle the globe. More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States still stations its troops at nearly...
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86,90 zł |
Us Defense Budget Outcomes: Volatility and Predictability in Army Weapons Funding
ISBN: 9783319523002 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A guide to the allocation of American taxpayer dollars used to provide for the common defense, this book, in a direct, current, and methodical analysis of defense budget outcomes, uses illustrative examples like the narrative of a helicopter purchase to reveal a chaotic political process that produces a conversely stable aggregate defense budget.
A guide to the allocation of American taxpayer dollars used to provide for the common defense, this book, in a direct, current, and methodical analysi...
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392,66 zł |
From Byron to Bin Laden: A History of Foreign War Volunteers
ISBN: 9780674979567 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What makes people fight for countries other than their own? Nir Arielli offers a wide-ranging history of foreign-war volunteers, from the French Revolution to Syria. Challenging notions of foreign fighters as a security problem, Arielli explores motivations, ideology, gender, international law, military significance, and the memory of war.
What makes people fight for countries other than their own? Nir Arielli offers a wide-ranging history of foreign-war volunteers, from the French Revol...
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194,78 zł |
The DNA of Leadership: Leadership Is All About People
ISBN: 9781942451945 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The DNA of Leadership Dick Abel has given us a concise but meaningful discussion of the attributes, challenges, and rewards of being a principled and effective leader. He has led the life, knows the subject matter, and given anyone who would hope to productively lead in any walk of life a great reference work. In The DNA of Leadership Dick Abel has given us a concise but meaningful discussion of the attributes, challenges, and rewards of being a principle... |
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64,98 zł |
Tales from the Blast Factory: A Brain Injured Special Forces Green Beret's Journey Back from the Brink
ISBN: 9781683504948 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Andrew Marr, a former Green Beret with multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan, fought in the war incurring dozens of traumatic brain injuries that really began off the battlefield. It about destroyed him and his family, and almost cost him his life. Marr's triumph in seeking answers and treatment outside a military medical establishment that repeatedly failed him began and ended with the kind of initiative, journey, defiance of convention, and solutions found in Tales From the Blast Factory. With thousands of veterans and other TBI sufferers wallowing in the wake of inadequate...
Andrew Marr, a former Green Beret with multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan, fought in the war incurring dozens of traumatic brain injuries that real...
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64,98 zł |
Tug of War: Surveillance Capitalism, Military Contracting, and the Rise of the Security State: Volume 242
ISBN: 9780773550476 / Angielski / Twarda / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Selling Earth observation satellites on their abilities to predict and limit adverse environmental change, politicians, business leaders, the media, and technology enthusiasts have spent sixty years arguing that space exploration can create a more peaceful, prosperous world. Capitalist states have also socialized the risk and privatized the profits of the commercial space industry by convincing taxpayers to fund surveillance technologies as necessary components of sovereignty, freedom, and democracy. Jocelyn Wills's Tug of War reminds us that colonizing the cosmos has not only accelerated...
Selling Earth observation satellites on their abilities to predict and limit adverse environmental change, politicians, business leaders, the media, a...
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178,79 zł |
Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War
ISBN: 9781476747774 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,90 zł |
The Forgotten Front: Patron-Client Relationships in Counterinsurgency
ISBN: 9781107170773 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explains why the United States' local allies are often as much of an obstacle to success in counterinsurgency as the insurgents themselves.
This book explains why the United States' local allies are often as much of an obstacle to success in counterinsurgency as the insurgents themselves.
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452,95 zł |
At War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
ISBN: 9780813584317 / Angielski / Twarda / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The country's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life--from the formation of racial and gendered identities to debates over environmental and immigration policy. Warfare and the military are ubiquitous in popular culture.
At War offers short, accessible essays addressing the central issues in the new military history--ranging from diplomacy and the history of... The country's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militaris...
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689,71 zł |
The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force
ISBN: 9781541617278 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Speak softly and carry a big stick" Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry but today many Americans doubt the utility of their global military presence, thinking it outdated, unnecessary or even dangerous. In The Big Stick, Eliot A. Cohen-a scholar and practitioner of international relations-disagrees. He argues that hard power remains essential for American foreign policy. While acknowledging that the US must be careful about why, when, and how it uses... "Speak softly and carry a big stick" Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the ri... |
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104,01 zł |
The Forgotten Front: Patron-Client Relationships in Counterinsurgency
ISBN: 9781316621806 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explains why the United States' local allies are often as much of an obstacle to success in counterinsurgency as the insurgents themselves.
This book explains why the United States' local allies are often as much of an obstacle to success in counterinsurgency as the insurgents themselves.
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154,36 zł |
Military Professionalism and Humanitarian Law: The Struggle to Reduce the Hazards of War
ISBN: 9780190881146 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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751,60 zł |
At War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
ISBN: 9780813584300 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The country's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life--from the formation of racial and gendered identities to debates over environmental and immigration policy. Warfare and the military are ubiquitous in popular culture.
At War offers short, accessible essays addressing the central issues in the new military history--ranging from diplomacy and the history of... The country's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militaris...
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211,03 zł |
The Politics of War: Canada's Afghanistan Mission, 2001-14
ISBN: 9780774836289 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Politics of War analyzes the impact of political elites, Parliament, and public opinion on Canada's mission in Afghanistan to demonstrate how much of Canada's involvement was shaped by the vagaries of domestic politics.
The Politics of War analyzes the impact of political elites, Parliament, and public opinion on Canada's mission in Afghanistan to demonstrate how much...
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175,00 zł |
Congress and the War on Terror: Making Policy for the Long War
ISBN: 9781440857089 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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314,24 zł |
Russian Conflict Management and European Security Governance: Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9781786608383 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a timely contribution to our understanding of Russia's response to intra-state conflict and its engagement with its contemporary security environment.
This book offers a timely contribution to our understanding of Russia's response to intra-state conflict and its engagement with its contemporary secu...
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280,16 zł |
Russian Conflict Management and European Security Governance: Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9781786608390 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a timely contribution to our understanding of Russia's response to intra-state conflict and its engagement with its contemporary security environment.
This book offers a timely contribution to our understanding of Russia's response to intra-state conflict and its engagement with its contemporary secu...
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882,65 zł |
The Ecology of Violent Extremism: Perspectives on Peacebuilding and Human Security
ISBN: 9781786608451 / Angielski / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ecology of Violent Extremism brings together leading theorists and practitioners to describe an ecological or systems approach to violent extremism.
The Ecology of Violent Extremism brings together leading theorists and practitioners to describe an ecological or systems approach to violent extremis...
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347,11 zł |
The Ecology of Violent Extremism: Perspectives on Peacebuilding and Human Security
ISBN: 9781786608468 / Angielski / Twarda / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ecology of Violent Extremism brings together leading theorists and practitioners to describe an ecological or systems approach to violent extremism.
The Ecology of Violent Extremism brings together leading theorists and practitioners to describe an ecological or systems approach to violent extremis...
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1010,46 zł |
Enhancing Identity Development At Senior Service Colleges
ISBN: 9781387581078 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,23 zł |