Light Forces & the Future of U.S. Military Strategy (Ausa Institute of Land Warfare)

Science & Math

Mazarr, Michael J.

Technology

Potomac Books Inc.

North Korea and the Bomb offers the first in-depth history of the biggest diplomatic challenge in the post-Cold War era - the North Korean nuclear programme and the US and allied efforts to stop it. Drawing on years of research and dozens of interviews with officials from the major countries involved, Dr Mazarr explains why North Korea may believe it needs nuclear weapons and how the United States has tried to thwart the North's plans. The book lays out a comprehensive history of diplomacy toward the North, alongside personal vignettes of the actors in this international drama, including Westerners who travelled to North Korea to meet Kim Il-sung before his death. As a case history of nonproliferation, the book offers guidance to the future of US policy in this critical area, arguing that confusion about goals and a refusal to act decisively have undermined American diplomacy. The outcome of the crisis in Korea could have decisive implications for the state of the post-Cold-War world. North Korea and the Bomb traces the origins of the crisis, makes sense of current events, and points the way to a resolution.

North Korea and the Bomb: A Case Study in Nonproliferation

History

Asia

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The director of the New Millennium Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington shares his insights into both the societal and daily living changes we can expect to see as we move into a fresh century.

Global Trends 2005: An Owner's Manual for the Next Decade

St.Martin's Press

Toward a Nuclear Peace: Future of Nuclear Weapons

Military

Palgrave MacM

Desert Storm: The Gulf War And What We Learned

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Routledge

Five years into the war on terror, we still don't understand the supposed "enemy." Official analyses of radical Islam remain simplistic and unhelpful for understanding the motivations and mindsets of people still characterized simply as "evildoers who hate freedom." This book offers a new way of understanding this challenge and figuring out what to do about it. It concludes with specific policy suggestions for a new approach to replace the badly-failing current strategy. This book approaches radical Islam by putting it into a comparative context. It makes a big, bold argument about the character of the threat and the nature of world politics in this provocative and wide-ranging examination of radical Islamists.

Unmodern Men in the Modern World: Radical Islam, Terrorism, and the War on Modernity

Social Sciences

Cambridge University Press

Five years into the war on terror, we still don't understand the supposed "enemy." Official analyses of radical Islam remain simplistic and unhelpful for understanding the motivations and mindsets of people still characterized simply as "evildoers who hate freedom." This book offers a new way of understanding this challenge and figuring out what to do about it. It concludes with specific policy suggestions for a new approach to replace the badly-failing current strategy. This book approaches radical Islam by putting it into a comparative context. It makes a big, bold argument about the character of the threat and the nature of world politics in this provocative and wide-ranging examination of radical Islamists.

American National Security

Provides contemporary perspectives on limited war, economic challenges to national security, and research and development. Reviews the changing security environment in key regions of the world, and identifies issues that the US must face in the next century, such as peace operations, conflict and arms control, and the widening array of missions undertaken by US armed forces. Includes discussion questions, plus b&amp;w maps and political cartoons. This fifth edition is updated since 1993. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Jordan, Amos A.

Taylor, William J.

Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

This fifth edition of American National Security is a timely update of a classic classroom text, providing contemporary perspectives on limited war, economic challenges to national security, and research and development. It reviews the changing security environment in key regions of the world: Russia, East Asia, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Europe. And it identifies the issues that the United States must face in the next century: peace operations, conflict and arms control, and the widening array of missions undertaken by U.S. armed forces.
"We have chosen to emphasize 'power,' broadly defined, as the central dimension of international and national security. This is not to deny that various trends and forces are increasingly pressing states toward more cooperative, less confrontational behavior; rather it is to focus on the fact that on important issues many states―including all the great powers―apply a power calculus in dealing with other international actors."―from the fifth edition of American National Security
Praise for previous editions:
"A classic text, widely used in universities... It does an exemplary job of explaining the process of defining and implementing national security objectives. Hardly any significant subject is omitted from this very rich and readable volume."― Foreign Affairs
Contents
Foreword by Senator Sam Nunn
Part I―National Security Policy: What Is It, and How Have Americans Approached It? 
1. National Security: The International Setting
2. Military Power and the Role of Force in the Post-Cold War Era
3. Traditional American Approaches to National Security
4. The Evolution of American National Security Policy
Part II―National Security Policy 
5. Presidential Leadership and the Executive Branch in National Security
6. The Impact of Congress on National Security Policy
7. Intelligence and National Security
8. The Role of Military in the National Security Policy Process
9. Defense Planning, Budgeting, and Management
10. The National Security Decision-making Process: Putting the Pieces Together
Part III―Issues of National Strategy 
11. Low-level Conflict
12. Limited War
13. Nuclear Strategy
Economic Challenges to National Security
15. Research and Development
Part IV―International and Regional Security Issues 
16. Russia
17. East Asia
18. The Middle East
19. Sun-Sarahan Africa
20. Latin America
21. Europe
Part V: Approaches to National Security for the Early Twenty-first Century 
22. Peace Operations
23. Conflict and Arms Control
24. National Security Perspectives for the Early Twenty-first Century

Taylor Jr., William J.

Johns Hopkins University Press

Now that the initial patriotic euphoria over the spectacular "Desert Storm" campaign has settled down, people are looking for more sophisticated accounts of the war and what it can teach us for the future. The editors of this volume have assembled the world's foremost military authorities to reexamine the nature of warfare in the wake of the Persian Gulf War.Not just a book for military specialists, Turning Point offers a broad perspective on the nature of warfare and its role in international politics. The chapters are all written in an engaging, jargon-free style by authors whose individual works have found wide general appeal. Furthermore, the authors offer significant elaborations upon their previous writings. For example, noted strategist Edward Luttwak offers a piece on his argument for an era of "geoeconomics." Joseph Nye expands on his notion of "soft power," Martin van Creveld refines the argument of his recent book The Transformation of War, and Thomas Schelling develops his analysis of nuclear weapons' strategic impact.The book features a gripping account of the ground war from John Keegan, the air war from Eliot Cohen, and the "endgame" from General John Cushman (including some criticism of Norman Schwarzkopf's planning). Covering a broad range of political-military subjects, from the development of U.S. military doctrine to the nature of combat in the Gulf and the future of security challenges in Europe and the Far East, these preeminent authors provide insightful analysis that makes Turning Point a superb source for everyone interested in U.S. foreign policy and strategy.

Turning Point: The Gulf War And U.s. Military Strategy

Ederington, L. Benjamin

Westview Press

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