The Military's Business: Designing Military Power for the Future
ISBN: 9781107094772 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If the military were a business, would you buy shares? Over recent years, Western armed forces, particularly the US, have been costing more yet achieving less. At the same time, austerity measures are reducing defence budgets. This book uses defence data to examine the workings of modern Western militaries and explore what kind of strategies can overcome this gap between input and output. Instead of focusing on military strategy, Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen seeks to draw on the ideas of business strategy to assess alternative business cases - reforming military HR to combat instability in the...
If the military were a business, would you buy shares? Over recent years, Western armed forces, particularly the US, have been costing more yet achiev...
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327,50 zł |
The Military's Business: Designing Military Power for the Future
ISBN: 9781107477353 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If the military were a business, would you buy shares? Over recent years, Western armed forces, particularly the US, have been costing more yet achieving less. At the same time, austerity measures are reducing defence budgets. This book uses defence data to examine the workings of modern Western militaries and explore what kind of strategies can overcome this gap between input and output. Instead of focusing on military strategy, Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen seeks to draw on the ideas of business strategy to assess alternative business cases - reforming military HR to combat instability in the...
If the military were a business, would you buy shares? Over recent years, Western armed forces, particularly the US, have been costing more yet achiev...
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127,88 zł |
Mahan on Naval Strategy: Selections from the Writings of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan
ISBN: 9781591145592 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mahan on Naval Strategy, available in paperback for the first time, provides a selection of key writings from one of the greatest naval theorists of all time. An original contributor to the study of strategic thinking, Alfred Thayer Mahan presented concepts and theories in The Influence of Seapower and his other writings that provide guidance in developing strategies to deal with the maritime challenges of the twenty-first century. With this unique collection of key articles and chapters from Mahan's works, readers have a single, convenient reference to help them toward a full...
Mahan on Naval Strategy, available in paperback for the first time, provides a selection of key writings from one of the greatest naval theoris...
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155,94 zł |
The U.S. Naval Institute on Naval Innovation
ISBN: 9781612518497 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The new Naval Institute Wheel Books provide important information, pragmatic advice, and cogent analysis on topics important to all naval professionals. Drawn from the U.S. Naval Institute's vast archives, the series combines articles from the Institute's flagship publication Proceedings, selections from the oral history collection, and Naval Institute Press books to create unique guides on a wide array of fundamental professional subjects.
Technological changes are inevitable, often of great benefit, and they must be understood by all maritime leaders. Since the Navy's beginnings, it... The new Naval Institute Wheel Books provide important information, pragmatic advice, and cogent analysis on topics important to all naval professional...
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139,78 zł |
The Military Advantage, 2015 Edition: The Military.com Guide to Military and Veterans Benefits
ISBN: 9781612518503 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Revised and updated every year, The Military Advantage, 2015 Edition is the most reliable benefits guide for Americans who have answered the call to serve in the military. These benefits amount to billions in scholarships, educational benefits, home loan guarantees, and military discounts. The 2015 edition includes TRICARE Prime and pharmacy updates, 2015 pay and allowance rates, active duty education program changes, new Navy sea pay charts, new veteran support resources, expanded service member protection policies, and changes in service member life insurance.
Revised and updated every year, The Military Advantage, 2015 Edition is the most reliable benefits guide for Americans who have answered the ca...
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161,32 zł |
The Military Balance 2015
ISBN: 9781857437669 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Military Balance is an authoritative assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of 171 countries. Detailed A Z entries list each country s military organisation, personnel numbers, equipment inventories, and relevant economic and demographic data. Regional and select country analyses cover the major developments affecting defence policy and procurement, and defence economics. The opening graphics section displays notable defence statistics, while additional data-sets detail selected arms orders, military exercises and deployments, as well as... The Military Balance is an authoritative assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of 171 countries. Detailed A Z entr... |
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2174,80 zł |
A Century of Conflict: War, 1914-2014
ISBN: 9780199372324 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The centenary of the start of World War One in 1914 provides an opportunity to assess the role and impact of conflict in the history of the last century, and also to consider how warfare has changed. A Century of Conflict offers a clear, global study of these topics that is both conceptually and methodologically up to date. Renowned historian Jeremy Black gives special consideration to Asia, Africa, and Latin America, placing the more conventional cast of conflicts--namely the two World Wars and the Cold War--into wider geographical and social contexts.
Analyzing the multiple dimensions... The centenary of the start of World War One in 1914 provides an opportunity to assess the role and impact of conflict in the history of the last centu...
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308,32 zł |
Psychology and the Soldier
ISBN: 9781107455603 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1927, this book contains the text of lectures delivered to Cambridge undergraduates between 1920 and 1926, which demonstrate the possible applications of psychological techniques to the training and deployment of soldiers. Bartlett examines features in the life of a soldier, including fatigue and the effects of battle, and offers some suggestions on how modern psychology can better be employed in the service of the army. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of psychology and the role psychology can play in the armed forces.
Originally published in 1927, this book contains the text of lectures delivered to Cambridge undergraduates between 1920 and 1926, which demonstrate t...
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127,88 zł |
Rethinking Western Approaches to Counterinsurgency: Lessons From Post-Colonial Conflict
ISBN: 9781138819337 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book critically examines the Western approach to counter-insurgency in the post-colonial era and offers a series of recommendations to address current shortfalls. The author argues that current approaches to countering insurgency rely too heavily on conflicts from the post-World War II years of waning colonialism. Campaigns conducted over half a century ago - Malaya, Aden, and Kenya among them - remain primary sources on which the United States, British, Australian, and other militaries build their guidance for dealing with insurgent threats, this though both the character of... This book critically examines the Western approach to counter-insurgency in the post-colonial era and offers a series of recommendations to address... |
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716,40 zł |
The U.S. Naval Institute on Naval Leadership
ISBN: 9781612518015 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the U.S. Navy, -Wheel Books- were once found in the uniform pockets of every junior and many senior petty officers. Each small notebook was unique to the Sailor carrying it, but all had in common a collection of data and wisdom that the individual deemed useful in the effective execution of his or her duties. Often used as a substitute for experience among neophytes and as a portable library of reference information for more experienced personnel, those weathered pages contained everything from the time of the next tide, to leadership hints from a respected chief petty officer, to the...
In the U.S. Navy, -Wheel Books- were once found in the uniform pockets of every junior and many senior petty officers. Each small notebook was unique ...
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129,00 zł |
Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict: Ethical, Legal, and Strategic Implications
ISBN: 9780226258058 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the past decade, armed drones have entered the American military arsenal as a core tactic for countering terrorism. When coupled with access to reliable information, they make it possible to deploy lethal force accurately across borders while keeping one s own soldiers out of harm s way. The potential to direct force with great precision also offers the possibility of reducing harm to civilians. At the same time, because drones eliminate some of the traditional constraints on the use of force like the need to gain political support for full mobilization they lower the threshold for...
During the past decade, armed drones have entered the American military arsenal as a core tactic for countering terrorism. When coupled with access to...
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430,92 zł |
The New Government of London
ISBN: 9780873320429 / Angielski / Twarda / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Assesses the impact on the Asia-Pacific region of the detente in great power relations attendant upon the end of the Cold War. The book explores prospects for tension reduction in the region, reconciliation opportunities for ASEAN and Indochina, and the great power search for new roles in the area.
Assesses the impact on the Asia-Pacific region of the detente in great power relations attendant upon the end of the Cold War. The book explores prosp...
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342,29 zł |
The Third Dimension: Air Power in Combating the Maoist Insurgency
ISBN: 9789384464141 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Maoist Insurgency has been born out of long periods of social discontent, economic hardships and state apathy towards the neglected masses. Anti-Maoist operations have to be based on a strong political will, aggressive anti-guerrilla tactics and economic and social development of affected areas to win back the confidence of the people. A common
The Maoist Insurgency has been born out of long periods of social discontent, economic hardships and state apathy towards the neglected masses. Anti-M...
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171,91 zł |
Regular Armies and Insurgency (Rle: Terrorism & Insurgency)
ISBN: 9781138902701 / Angielski / Twarda / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conflicts between regular armies and various groups of insurgents, fighting for a range of causes, are some of the most protracted and extensive military crises to have emerged in recent years. The introductin provides a point on which the five major historical examples that follow may be compared and contrasted. Similarities and differences between some of the more important episodes from this century are highlighted; similarities such as the role of intelligence, the value of police work and the necesity of expert political assessment and differences such as the factors of time or... Conflicts between regular armies and various groups of insurgents, fighting for a range of causes, are some of the most protracted and extensive mi... |
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383,73 zł |
Survival Instructor Training Notes
ISBN: 9781505339536 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Australian Army Survival Training Wing Survival Instructor Training Notes. Picking up from where Les Hiddins, the Bush Tucker Man left off, the Army Survival Wing is responsible for all survival training in the Australian Army. These are the same training notes issued to students on the Army Survival Wing's Survival Instructor Course (SIC) and Survival Instructor Development Course (SIDC).
Australian Army Survival Training Wing Survival Instructor Training Notes. Picking up from where Les Hiddins, the Bush Tucker Man left off, the Army S...
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209,53 zł |
Technology of Sword Blades from the La Tene Period to the Early Modern Age: The Case of What Is Now Poland
ISBN: 9781784910280 / Angielski / Miękka / 367 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book assesses the results of recent metallographic examination of 45 sword blades (mid-2nd century BC to early-16th century) from the territory of what is now Poland. Pre-Roman blades were usually made from one piece of metal of varying quality (better quality items were perhaps imported). Most high quality and complex technology Roman blades were in all probability of Roman provenance, while some low quality one-piece examples may have been made locally. The Migration Period and Early Middle Ages witnessed the greatest diversification of technological solutions. However it is much more...
This book assesses the results of recent metallographic examination of 45 sword blades (mid-2nd century BC to early-16th century) from the territory o...
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274,71 zł |
Patch Guide: U.S. Navy Ships and Submarines
ISBN: 9781630269227 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Attack aircraft carriers, battleships, destroyers, frigates, light and heavy cruisers, and patrol crafts. 1,300 different ships and submarines from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War have their crests displayed in brilliant full color. This book is an encyclopedia, preserving the emblems that reflect the pride of the crews belonging to the best ships in the U.S. Navy."" Indexed.""
Attack aircraft carriers, battleships, destroyers, frigates, light and heavy cruisers, and patrol crafts. 1,300 different ships and submarines from WW...
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64,51 zł |
Waging War: A New Philosophical Introduction
ISBN: 9780198724650 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is now a major new interest in ethical issues about warfare emerging from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, conflict in Syria and Libya, the war on terror, and the introduction of new weapon systems, such as unmanned drones. In this re-written version of the author's classic text, Waging War, Ian Clark asks probing questions about how we think about war, the changes it is undergoing, and what exactly it is we wage when we wage war.
Waging War argues that much of what passes for ethical debate is actually a set of disagreements about what counts as war or not. This philosophical... There is now a major new interest in ethical issues about warfare emerging from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, conflict in Syria and Libya, the war...
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481,39 zł |
The U.S. Naval Institute on Naval Command
ISBN: 9781612518008 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the U.S. Navy, "Wheel Books" were once found in the uniform pockets of every junior and many senior petty officers. Each small notebook was unique to the Sailor carrying it, but all had in common a collection of data and wisdom that the individual deemed useful in the effective execution of his or her duties. Often used as a substitute for experience among neophytes and as a portable library of reference information for more experienced personnel, those weathered pages contained everything from the time of the next tide, to leadership hints from a respected chief petty officer, to the...
In the U.S. Navy, "Wheel Books" were once found in the uniform pockets of every junior and many senior petty officers. Each small notebook was unique ...
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139,78 zł |
Moving Beyond Pretense: Nuclear Power And Nonproliferation
ISBN: 9781505854008 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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135,71 zł |