Catálogo de libros: Guerra y defensa

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  • Mexico’s 2012 Elections
    Stephen Johnson
    At the beginning of 2011, security defined the U.S.-Mexico relationship, and it was the issue that most observers thought would shape Mexico’s 2012 presidential, state, and local elections. Only two of Mexico’s three main parties, the National Action Party (PAN) and Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), had well-known positions on security and on themes such as economic liberal...
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    55,50 €

  • Tuskegee Airmen 1941-1945
    Chicago DODO Chapter Tuskegee Airmen / Kenneth Rapier
    Tuskegee Airmen 1941-1945 shares the memories of 22 original Tuskegee Airmen and their experiences as African American combat aviators during World War II. Filled with photographs, combat records, mission reports, official correspondence, newspaper clippings, and the personal annotations of the original document owners, Tuskegee Airmen 1941-1945 provides a singularly unique re...
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    50,43 €

  • Demography of a Reunified Korea
    Elizabeth Hervey Stephen
    At this time it is impossible to know when, or the conditions under which, North and South Korea might be reunified. This exploratory report, though, analyzes the current demographic characteristics of the two countries and sets out potential scenarios given conditions that might exist during and following reunification. ...
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    53,05 €

  • Evolution of Arms Control
    Richard Dean Burns
    Written in an engaging and accessible manner, The Evolution of Arms Control weds an inductive analysis of arms control systems to a general history of arms control from 883 BCE to the present. Comparing past and present challenges, it highlights recurring issues such as negotiation, verification, and compliance. ...
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    55,53 €

  • Brothers at Daybreak.
    World War II B-24 crew beats the odds over Pacific waters.Brothers at Daybreak tells the intimate story of 11 boys who got together in 1944 to fight World War II from the air above the vast Pacific Ocean. The young members of Pilot Frank Jeter’s flight crew took their role in defeating the Japanese one mission and one day at a time. They stuck together to face the constant thre...
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    23,13 €

  • September Hope
    John C. McManus
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    21,61 €

  • Gentlemen Bastards
    Kevin Maurer
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    22,91 €

  • The Politico-Military Dynamics of European Crisis Response Operations
    Alexander Mattelaer
    Strategy promises to turn the use of force into an instrument of policy. This book explores how military operations undertaken by European armed forces are intended to deliver political effects. Drawing on the work of Carl von Clausewitz it argues that strategy is the product of an iterative politico-military dialogue. While strategic-level planning endows operations with a rat...
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    65,23 €

  • Counting Civilian Casualties
    A popular myth emerged in the late 1990s: in 1900, wars killed one civilian for every eight soldiers, while contemporary wars were killing eight civilians for every one soldier. The neat reversal of numbers was memorable, and academic publications and UN documents regularly cited it. The more it was cited, the more trusted it became. In fact, however, subsequent research found ...
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    52,19 €

  • The Liberal Peace and Post-War Reconstruction
    This critical and comparative book is comprised of arguments for and against the dominant western style of peace interventions and post-war reconstruction that has been applied around the world. It examines and assesses the nature of the peace that these have achieved or offer for the future. ...
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    92,16 €

  • Command of the Air
    Charles a. Gabriel / Giulio Douhet
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    68,83 €

  • Command of the Air
    Giulio Douhet
    Reprint of the 1983 translation by staff of the United States Office of Air Force History. 3 ...
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    34,14 €

  • The Olympic Movement and the Sport of Peacemaking
    This book critically examines the ways in which sport and peacekeeping, through the Olympic Games, are being played out at global, national and local levels.It was published as a special issue of Sport in Society. ...
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    295,40 €

  • Responding to Catastrophic Events
    Jeffrey A. Larsen
    Responding to Catastrophic Events brings together the leading scholars and practitioners of consequence management to instruct a new generation in how to respond to both natural disasters and manmade events. Focusing on the relationship of disaster managem ...
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    64,94 €

  • Responding to Catastrophic Events
    Jeffrey A. Larsen
    Responding to Catastrophic Events brings together the leading scholars and practitioners of consequence management to instruct a new generation in how to respond to both natural disasters and manmade events. Focusing on the relationship of disaster managem ...
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    66,29 €

  • Japan’s Global Health Policy
    Ayaka Yamaguchi / Haruko Sugiyama
    Recent years have seen a considerable shift in the sources of financial assistance for global health activities. With the private sector as well as emerging economies joining the more developed nations as major players, the balance of power is changing, leading to a momentous shift in perceptions of “global health.” ...
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    55,94 €

  • Libya, the Responsibility to Protect and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention
    This book brings together internationally renowned academics from Europe and North America offering a uniquely comprehensive and timely analysis of the intervention in Libya in 2011. The military intervention in Libya in March 2011 generated heated debate internationally and reinvigorated interest in humanitarian intervention. The action was widely heralded as a surprisingly ro...
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    65,12 €

  • Naval Ordnance and Gunnery
    Bureau of Naval Personnel
    Naval Ordnance and Gunnery is the most definitive book to emerge from WWII on the subject of naval ordnance and fire control. Encyclopedic in content, the text runs nearly 600 pages and is richly illustrated with photos and diagrams of systems used on destroyers, cruisers, battleships and other warships. Within its pages you’ll find detailed descriptions of weapons and ammun...
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    39,47 €

  • Naval Ordnance and Gunnery
    Bureau of Naval Personnel
    Naval Ordnance and Gunnery is the most definitive book to emerge from WWII on the subject of naval ordnance and fire control. Encyclopedic in content, the text runs nearly 600 pages and is richly illustrated with photos and diagrams of systems used on destroyers, cruisers, battleships and other warships. Within its pages you’ll find detailed descriptions of weapons and ammun...
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    52,63 €

  • Beyond the Last War
    Jacquelyn Guy / Nathan Freier / Stephanie Sanok
    This study endeavors to identify ground force options that are most important to the security of core U.S. interests in two key regions of the world: the Middle East and South Asia; and the Asia Pacific. It is meant to help the Department of Defense define future challenges risk as it relates to ground forces and identify and classify specific qualitative risks that could under...
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    73,30 €

  • Handbook on Japanese Military Forces War Department Technical Manual
    War Department
    Created during WWII by the War Department, the Handbook on Japanese Military Forces was intended to familiarize command staff with nearly every aspect of Tojo’s war machine. Originally classified 'restricted', the Handbook was created from the best intelligence that the OSS and other military information sources could offer. It contains comprehensive information and analysis ...
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    43,58 €

  • Eagles of the RAF
    National Defense University Press / Philip D. Caine
    Orginally published in 1991. From the foreword: 'Although the United States did not enter World War II until the end of 1941, US citizens fought and died in the war long before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Among them were the pilots of the Eagle Squadrons, three fighter squadrons of Britain's Royal Air Force manned by young US flyers risking their lives in another nation...
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    34,07 €

  • Lucrative Targets
    Air Force History and Museums Programs / Perry D. Jamieson
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    28,79 €

  • Stalin and the Turkish Crisis of the Cold War, 1945-1953
    Jamil Hasanli
    This book presents Western and Soviet policies on Turkey from the end of the Second World War until Stalin’s death in 1953. It explains how Turkey became the first regional testing ground for the Soviet-Western confrontation, which emerged after the Second World War and came to be known as the Cold War. ...
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    83,72 €

  • Forging a Consensus for a Sustainable U.S. Nuclear Posture
    Clark A. Murdock / Clark AMurdock / John Warden / Stephanie Spies
    This report was produced by the CSIS Nuclear Consensus Working Group (NCWG) to assist the Obama administration in forging, during its second term, an enduring consensus about the U.S. nuclear posture. ...
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    65,47 €

  • Handbook on German Military Forces War Department Technical Manual
    War Department
    Created during WWII by the War Department, the Handbook on German Military Forces was intended to familiarize command staff with nearly every aspect of Hitler’s war machine. Originally classified 'restricted', the Handbook was created from the best intelligence that the OSS and other military information sources could offer. It contains comprehensive information and analysis ...
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    35,02 €

  • Afghanistan
    As the international security forces prepare to depart from Afghanistan, this Adelphiturns attention to the ability of a ravaged country to tackle its myriad security problems,overcome crippling poverty and corruption and somehow revive its devastatedeconomy. ...
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    118,88 €

  • Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia
    The twentieth century has been labelled the ’century of genocide’, and according to estimates, more than 250 million civilians were victims of genocide and mass atrocities during this period. This book provides one of the first regional perspectives on mass atrocities in Asia, by exploring the issue through two central themes. ...
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    254,63 €

  • Piercing the Fog
    Air Force History and Museums Program
    From the foreword: WHEN JAPAN ATTACKED PEARL HARBOR on December 7, 1941, and Germany and Italy joined Japan four days later in declaring war against the United States, intelligence essential for the Army Air Forces to conduct effective warfare in the European and Pacific theaters did not exist. Piercing the Fog tells the intriguing story of how airmen built intelligence organiz...
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    54,00 €

  • Air Power for Patton's Army - The XIX Tactical Air Command in the Second World War
    Air University Press / David N. Spires
    First published in 2002. From the foreword: 'This insightful work by David N. Spires holds many lessons in tactical air-ground operations. Despite peacetime rivalries in the drafting of service doctrine, in World War II the immense pressures of wartime drove army and air commanders to cooperate in the effective prosecution of battlefield operations. In northwest Europe during t...
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    54,53 €


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