Catálogo de libros: Guerra y defensa

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  • Precision-guided Munitions and Human Suffering in War
    James E. Hickey
    This book seeks to answer the question: Do precision-guided munitions (PGMs) mitigate suffering in war, and have these weapons changed the way decisions regarding war and peace have been made? Answering this question helps us understand possible shifts in emphasis in modern warfare, both in terms of methods employed and of the greater concern placed on limiting human suffering ...
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    254,39 €

  • Global Security Watchâ€'India
    Amit Gupta
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    56,52 €

  • Primitive Weapons Miscellany
    Frank G. Speck / Frank GSpeck / Otis T. Mason / Otis TMason / Philip Ainsworth Means
    Primitive Weapons Miscellany collects seven early papers on primitive weapons like boomerangs, harpoons, slings, and blowguns, taken primarily from anthropological journals. These papers show examples of the weapons, and describe their use in hunting prey. This volume includes facsimile reprints of The Cane Blowgun in Catawba and Southeastern Ethnology (Frank G. Speck), Boomera...
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    33,74 €

  • Survive Your Tour in Peace & War
    Sebastian Digiovanni
    This unofficial military guide was written from the perspective of an Iraq combat infantryman's viewpoint. It presents a unique view of the war on terrorism that many categories of readers will find fascinating and highly informative: Those planning to enlist in any military branch with a unit likely to be deployed in a combat zone or recently enlisted in such a unit will fin...
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    6,97 €

  • The Continental Commitment
    Jeremy Black
    A fascinating new historical perspective on the concept of the ’national interest’ and of Britain’s relationship with Europe, and its ’continental commitment’. ...
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    89,55 €

  • Energy Security in Asia
    Michael Wesley
    This book explores the various dimensions of energy security in Asia - which has become an increasingly important geopolitical issue. Reputable international contributors look at the roles played by each of the major energy importers: the United States, China, Japan and India, as well as the main suppliers: the OPEC states, Russia, the Central Asian states and Australia. In eac...
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    48,74 €

  • Japan, Australia and Asia-Pacific Security
    The threats to security in Southeast Asia have been serious and constant since the end of the Second World War. This book provides an absorbing account of the evolution of Australia-Japan defence contacts from the early post-war period to the present. ...
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    31,50 €

  • Railways and International Politics
    This new collection focuses on its international political and strategic dimensions from the 1860s to the 1930s. It examines them as objects of the Great Powers’ political and economic rivalries and as tools of power projection, strategic mobilization and imperial defence. ...
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    89,44 €

  • The US Government, Citizen Groups and the Cold War
    A radical new approach to the study of propaganda and foreign policy, which moves beyond state-dominated, ’top-down’ studies by exploring the engagement and mobilization of whole societies and cultures. ...
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    89,43 €

  • Russia, NATO and Cooperative Security
    Lionel Ponsard
    This book is an examination of the evolution of Russian-NATO relations since the Cold War. It shows to what extent cooperative security could serve as a means to bridge the gap between two supposedly antagonistic entities: NATO and Russia. ...
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    89,59 €

  • A New Beginning for Humankind
    R. B. Herath
    The world is reaching a nuclear tipping point, and a catastrophe looms. Even the United Nations can't seem to do anything about the threat. Given the circumstances, people everywhere need to unite to prevent a disaster. In this new study, peace activist R. B. Herath explains what's at stake and what everyday people can do to solve the problem. Here are some of the questions H...
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    31,61 €

  • A New Beginning for Humankind
    R. B. Herath
    The world is reaching a nuclear tipping point, and a catastrophe looms. Even the United Nations can't seem to do anything about the threat. Given the circumstances, people everywhere need to unite to prevent a disaster. In this new study, peace activist R. B. Herath explains what's at stake and what everyday people can do to solve the problem. Here are some of the questions H...
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    21,15 €

  • Cyberspace and National Security
    In a very short time, individuals and companies have harnessed cyberspace to create new industries, a vibrant social space, and a new economic sphere that are intertwined with our everyday lives. At the same time, individuals, subnational groups, and governments are using cyberspace to advance interests through malicious activity. Terrorists recruit, train, and target through t...
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    40,45 €

  • Chemical and Biological Warfare
    Eric Croddy
    The armaments of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) are now widely held not just by nation-states, but by terrorist and criminal enterprises. The weapons themselves are relatively inexpensive and very easy to hide, allowing organizations of just a few dozen people to deploy potentially devastating attacks. While in the twentieth century most arms-c...
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    59,94 €

  • Alliance Security Dilemmas in the Iraq War
    N. Ishibashi
    The book explains why Germany opposed the US decision to attack Iraq in 2003, whereas Japan supported it, despite the two countries’ many similarities. Employing the concept of alliance security dilemma-constituted by the twin fears of abandonment and entrapment-the author argues that the two countries pursued opposite policies toward the Iraq War because the level of Germany’s...
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    65,25 €

  • Proconsuls
    Carnes Lord
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    152,58 €

  • Deradicalising Violent Extremists
    Hamed El-Said / Jane Harrigan
    This book provides a detailed analysis of both counter-radicalisation and de-radicalisation programmes in eight Muslim-majority states, representing hitherto one of the largest, detailed and most systematic inventory of such programmes in the world. ...
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    240,80 €

  • Ancient and Medieval Siege Weapons
    Konstantin Nossov
    In this richly illustrated guide, author Konstantin Nossov masterfully analyzes and recreates the weaponry, tactics, and stratagems of the ancient world. He offers first a comprehensive history of siege warfare in Ancient Egypt, Assyria, Judea, Persia, Greece, and Rome as well as Gaul, the Byzantine Empire, the Muslim world, and Medieval Europe. Discover, among other weapons, h...
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    22,29 €

  • Exit Strategies and State Building
    Richard Caplan
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    54,75 €

  • Grand Design
    Donald Stoker
    Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The Grand Design, Donald Stoker provides for the first time a comprehensive and often surprising account of strategy as it evolved between Fort Sumter and Appomattox. Reminding ...
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    24,02 €

  • Vanguard of Valor Volume II
    Combat Studies Institute Press / Donald P. Wright / Donald PWright
    From the foreword: 'The present volume, Vanguard of Valor II, offers six accounts of US Soldiers at the tip of the spear during the Afghan campaign. The CombatStudies Institute’s Vanguard of Valor series is intended to document smallunit actions in Afghanistan. These books play an equally important role byoffering insights to Soldiers who may find themselves in the years aheadu...
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    47,06 €

  • Vanguard of Valor Volume II
    Combat Studies Institute Press
    From the foreword: 'The present volume, Vanguard of Valor II, offers six accounts of US Soldiers at the tip of the spear during the Afghan campaign. The Combat Studies Institute's Vanguard of Valor series is intended to document small unit actions in Afghanistan. These books play an equally important role by offering insights to Soldiers who may find themselves in the years ahe...
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    23,24 €

  • Top Secret America
    Dana Priest / William M. Arkin / William MArkin
    The top-secret world that the government created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks has become so enormous, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or exactly how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere. The result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe may be putting us in grea...
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    26,80 €

  • Growth against Democracy
    Growth against Democracy: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern World, by H.L.T. Quan, is a radical critique of development as a modern project. Using three historical cases (Brazil-Japan, China-Africa, and US-Iraq), Quan probes the discursive practices of modern development, exploring the coercive and juridical dimensions of trade, diplomacy and war and their impact. This stud...
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    148,39 €

  • National Resilience during War
    Eyal Lewin / Farabee
    Political science perceives the results of wars as fatal to the fate of nations, but the exact measures of national resilience during war have remained somewhat blurred. National Resilience during War: Refining the Decision-Making Model, by Eyal Lewin, is a multi-disciplinary study which explores political psychology as well as historical analyses of geopolitical, economic, and...
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    166,10 €

  • Deradicalising Violent Extremists
    Hamed El-Said / Jane Harrigan
    Terrorism remains one of the major threats facing the world community. While literature on the subject is dominated by discussion of the factors leading individuals and groups to join violent extremist, terrorist groups, the question of what can lead them to disengage from such groups is an equally important one. This book is the first study to provide a detailed analysis of bo...
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    85,24 €

  • The Biggest Stick
    Combat Studies Institute Press / Richard B. Johnson
    This study uses a comparative analysis of the Malayan Emergency, the American experience in Vietnam, and Operation IRAQI FREEDOM to examine the role and effectiveness of artillery units in complex counterinsurgency environments. Through this analysis, four factors emerge which impact the employment of artillery units: the counterinsurgency effort's requirement for indirect fire...
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    45,69 €

  • The Biggest Stick
    Combat Studies Institute Press / Richard B. Johnson
    This study uses a comparative analysis of the Malayan Emergency, the American experience in Vietnam, and Operation IRAQI FREEDOM to examine the role and effectiveness of artillery units in complex counterinsurgency environments. Through this analysis, four factors emerge which impact the employment of artillery units: the counterinsurgency effort's requirement for indirect fire...
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    28,97 €

  • The Romance of Aircraft
    Laurence Yard Smith
    The conquest of the air-and beyond This interesting book, which includes photographs and diagrams, describes the early years of man’s attempts to gain mastery of the air. It chronicles the first, rudimentary attempts at flight in balloons to their ultimate development including their use during the Great War. Next came the age of the dirigible including, of course, the mighty Z...
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    30,63 €

  • The Romance of Aircraft
    Laurence Yard Smith
    The conquest of the air-and beyond This interesting book, which includes photographs and diagrams, describes the early years of man’s attempts to gain mastery of the air. It chronicles the first, rudimentary attempts at flight in balloons to their ultimate development including their use during the Great War. Next came the age of the dirigible including, of course, the mighty Z...
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    18,76 €


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