Catálogo de libros: Guerra y defensa

4910 Catálogo de libros: Guerra y defensa

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  • Bordieuan Field Theory as an Instrument for Military Operational Analysis
    Håkan Gunneriusson
    This book uses Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory as a lens through which to examine military operations. Novel in its approach, this innovative text provides a better, more nuanced understanding of the modern ’battlespace’, particularly in instances of prolonged low-intensity conflict. Formed in two parts, this book primarily explores the scope of Bourdien theory before secondly p...
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    54,34 €

  • Security in a Small Nation
    Andrew W Neal
    'The 2014 Referendum on Scottish independence sparked debate on every dimension of modern statehood. Levels of public interest and engagement were unprecedented, as demonstrated by record-breaking voter turnout. Yet aside from Trident, the issue of security was relatively neglected in the campaigns, and there remains a lack of literature on the topic. In this volume Andrew Neal...
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    64,67 €

  • Commandant’s Planning Guidance
    General David H. Berger / General David HBerger
    The Commandant’s Planning Guidance (CPG) provides the 38th Commandant’s strategic direction for the Marine Corps and mirrors the function of the Secretary of Defense’s Defense Planning Guidance (DPG). It serves as the authoritative document for Service-level planning and provides a common direction to the Marine Corps Total Force. It also serves as a road map describing where t...
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    22,93 €

  • Space Civilization
    James Gilley
    This book tackles the social issues that are key to the long-term survival of humanity away from Earth. ...
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    129,46 €

  • Scramble for the Skies
    Namrata Goswami / Peter A. Garretson / Peter AGarretson
    The book examines the space ambitions of China, the United States, and India. It analyzes how unique strategic cultures have shaped elite discourse, legal policy, and space programs within these states. ...
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    183,25 €

  • Japan’s new security partnerships
    Wilhelm Vosse
    This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Japan’s new security partnerships with Australia, India, countries and multilateral security fora in East Asia, as well as with the EU and some of its member states. ...
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    40,56 €

  • W.E. Fairbairn’s Complete Compendium of Lethal, Unarmed, Hand-to-Hand Combat Methods and Fighting
    W E Fairbairn
    The fully illustrated distilled knowledge of W.E. Fairbairn, legendary SOE instructor in unarmed combat, and co-inventor of the Sykes-Fairbairn knife, who learned his deadly skills in 30 years on the Shanghai waterfront. It has been suggested that Fairbairn was the inspiration for Q Branch, in Ian Fleming’s fictional books about the British Secret Service agent James Bond.Get T...
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    69,95 €

  • W.E. Fairbairn’s Complete Compendium of Lethal, Unarmed, Hand-to-Hand Combat Methods and Fighting
    W E Fairbairn
    The fully illustrated distilled knowledge of W.E. Fairbairn, legendary SOE instructor in unarmed combat, and co-inventor of the Sykes-Fairbairn knife, who learned his deadly skills in 30 years on the Shanghai waterfront. It has been suggested that Fairbairn was the inspiration for Q Branch, in Ian Fleming’s fictional books about the British Secret Service agent James Bond.Get T...
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    52,86 €

  • Rethinking Security Initiatives in Nigeria
    Badejo Babafemi A.
    Administrative Officials left by the departing British officials and in collaboration with some technocrats who were later joined by politicians opted for increased centralization of power and responsibilities in Nigeria. Meanwhile, corruption, widely let loose, ravaged the country. A strong casualty of this trend was policing. In a move that was ostensibly meant to correct the...
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    32,25 €

  • Beyond Frozen Conflict
    Nikolaus von Twickel / Thomas de Waal
    This book is the first to give an up-to-date account of all five unresolved conflicts of the post-Soviet space in Eastern Europe in an analytically consistent manner. ...
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    163,56 €

  • The Command of The Air
    Giulio Douhet
    2020 Reprint of the 1983 Edition.  This reprint of the 1942 English translation of Douhet's works, while titled Command of the Air, actually consists of five separate works: the original 1921 edition of Command of the Air, a second edition of 1927, a 1928 monograph titled Probable Aspects of Future War, a polemical article of 1929 called Recapitulation and the 1930 study Th...
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    28,78 €

  • HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    Major General S Woodburn Kirby
    This, the second of the five books in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War dealing with the war against Japan, examines the high tide of Japan’s success, when her all-conquering armies threatened India itself – the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. The book opens with the British scrambling to defend Burma, gateway to India, after Japan’s onsla...
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    115,17 €

  • HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    Major General S Woodburn Kirby
    This, the second of the five books in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War dealing with the war against Japan, examines the high tide of Japan’s success, when her all-conquering armies threatened India itself – the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. The book opens with the British scrambling to defend Burma, gateway to India, after Japan’s onsla...
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    135,38 €

  • Deception and Lies
    David Burke
    In May of 1970, two government ministers were dismissed from Cabinet for allegedly purchasing guns for the IRA. The Taoiseach Jack Lynch disavowed any knowledge of the plot. Few believed him. Charles Haughey, Minister for Finance, a captain in Irish military intelligence along with two others were put on trial. All were acquitted. Haughey refused to talk about the crisis for th...
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    25,26 €

  • The Art of War
    Lionel Giles / Sun Tzu
    The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly 5th century BC). The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu ("Master Sun", also spelled Sunzi), is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted to an aspect of warfare and how it applies to military strategy and tactics. For almost ...
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    28,19 €

  • FLASH SPOTTERS AND SOUND RANGERS
    John R Innes
    The standard text on development of artillery survey and work on the Western Front. How the observation groups & sound ranging sections came to be formed and fulfilled their purpose; survey posts & their equipment; and experiences of participants in France & Italy. A very useful & informative work.  ...
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    53,77 €

  • HISTORY OF THE ARMY ORDNANCE SERVICES Three Volume Compilation
    Major-General A. Forbes
    This is a first class, complete history of the Ordnance Services of the British Army from early times through inception up to the First World War. The Ordnance Services are an essential part of the ability of the army to operate and fight where ever it is sent, supplying weapons, ammunition, explosives and pyrotechnics (amongst a myriad of other items) for use in the field.This...
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    89,35 €

  • IF GERMANY ATTACKS
    Captain G. C. Wynne
    In this assessment of German tactics on the Western Front during the Great War, Wynne argues that the German tactical success was largely attributed to “the work of one mastermind,” that of General Fritz von Lossberg. Written in 1939 much use is made of the then recently published memories of von Lossberg. Surveying all the major operations in France and Flanders from Neuve Cha...
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    46,24 €

  • Defense of the West
    Stanley R. Sloan / Stanley RSloan
    This book offers a history of a transatlantic security relationship that has endured for over seventy years, examining how developments inside NATO and European Union member states affect their ability to defend against external threats while preserving Western values, in the era of Trump and Brexit. ...
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    144,33 €

  • Defense of the West
    Stanley R. Sloan / Stanley RSloan
    This book offers a history of a transatlantic security relationship that has endured for over seventy years, examining how developments inside NATO and European Union member states affect their ability to defend against external threats while preserving Western values, in the era of Trump and Brexit. ...
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    38,65 €

  • PUTIN’S RUSSIA
    STEVEN ROSEFIELDE
    This volume seeks to fill the vacuum created by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress's decision to cease publishing comprehensive assessments of Russia's performance and potential. It provides readers with authoritative descriptions of Russia's economy, military prowess and international ambitions. The volume does not settle controversies, but does provide reade...
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    202,80 €

  • HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    Major General S Woodburn Kirby
    The first of five volumes of the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War dealing with the war against Japan; this book describes the fall of Britain’s Far Eastern territories: Hong Kong, Borneo, Malaya, and finally the fortress island of Singapore - perhaps the greatest single British disaster of the entire war. The authors pin the blame for the loss of Brita...
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    103,95 €

  • HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    Major General S Woodburn Kirby
    The first of five volumes of the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War dealing with the war against Japan; this book describes the fall of Britain’s Far Eastern territories: Hong Kong, Borneo, Malaya, and finally the fortress island of Singapore - perhaps the greatest single British disaster of the entire war. The authors pin the blame for the loss of Brita...
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    116,77 €

  • Memoirs of a B-29 Pilot
    Charles R. Reyher / Charles RReyher
    'Memoirs of a B-29 Pilot' chronicles the author’s wartime experiences leading up to and as a B-29 Superfortress Aircraft Commander.. He was engaged in the Air Offensive-Japan from the Marianas Islands in the South Pacific. He looks back at those experiences from the professional view of a retired airline captain, having flown over 35 years of service with Trans World Airlines. ...
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    22,63 €

  • Covid-19 and World Order
    Hal Brands
    The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of people and infected millions while also devastating the world economy. The consequences of the pandemic, however, go much further: they threaten the fabric of national and international politics around the world. As Henry Kissinger warned, 'The coronavirus epidemic will forever alter the world order.' What will b...
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    39,61 €

  • Ecocide
    David Whyte
    This is the first book to argue comprehensively that unless we destroy the legal and political basis for the corporation, we are unlikely to reverse the decline of the eco-system, and therefore we will hasten the end of the species. ...
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    17,47 €

  • Under Beijing’s Shadow
    Murray Hiebert
    This compelling book provides a snapshot of how ten countries of Southeast Asia view China with a nuanced mix of hope and anxiety. The stunning growth of China has yanked up the region’s economies, but its militarization of the South China Sea and dam building on the Mekong River has nations uneasy about their neighbor’s outsized ambitions. ...
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    51,55 €

  • War Refugees
    Jennifer Kling
    Jennifer Kling argues that war refugees suffer a series of wrongs and oppressions, and so are owed restitution and aid—as a matter of justice—by socio-political institutions. She makes the case that they should be viewed differently than migrants but that their circumstances do not wholly alleviate their own moral responsibilities. ...
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    54,83 €

  • Unrestricted Warfare
    Qiao Liang / Wang Xiangsui
    2020 Hardcover Facsimile of the 1999 Edition. Unrestricted Warfare is a book on military strategy written in 1999 by two colonels in the People's Liberation Army. Its primary concern is how a nation such as the People's Republic of China can defeat a technologically superior opponent (such as the United States) through a variety of strategies. Rather than focusing on di...
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    21,35 €

  • Spacepower
    United States Space Force
    The inaugural Space Capstone Publication, Spacepower is capstone doctrine for the United States Space Force and represents our Service’s first articulation of an independent theory of spacepower. This publication answers why spacepower is vital for our Nation, how military spacepower is employed, who military space forces are, and what military space forces value. In short, th...
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    27,78 €


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