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“anand toprani”

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  • Oil and the Great Powers

    Britain and Germany, 1914 to 1945

    by Anand Toprani ...
    The history of oil is a chapter in the story of Europe's geopolitical decline in the twentieth century. During the era of the two world wars, a lack of oil constrained Britain and Germany from exerting their considerable economic and military power independently. Both nations' efforts to restore the independence they had enjoyed during the Age of Coal backfired by inducing strategic over-extension ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • American Defense Reform

    Lessons from Failure and Success in Navy History

    by Dave Oliver, Anand Toprani ...
    A roadmap for US military innovation based on the Navy’s history of success through civilian-military collaborationsThe US military must continually adapt to evolving technologies, shifting adversaries, and a changing social environment for its personnel. In American Defense Reform, Dave Oliver and Anand Toprani use US naval history as a guide for leading successful change in the Pentagon.American ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • The Kill Chain

    Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

    by Christian Brose ...
    From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain comes an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might.For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US military fights, and the systems and weapons that it fights with, have been uncontested. That old reality, however, is rapidly deteriorating. America's ... Read more

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  • How Obama is Transforming America's Military from Superpower to Paper Tiger

    The Truth about China in the Twenty-First Century

    by Jed Babbin ...
    Series series Encounter Broadsides
    Barack Obama has made it clear that he thinks the world would be a better and more peaceful place if the United States were too weak to affect the course of events. Obama, along with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, has slashed missile defense, dramatically reduced investment in future military technologies, and broken promises to our allies. In addition, Obama is transforming our military into ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Delta of Power

    The Military-Industrial Complex

    by Alex Roland ...
    Series series Technology in Motion
    Does the Military-Industrial Complex as we understand it still exist? If so, how has it changed since the end of the Cold War?First named by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address, the Military-Industrial Complex, originally an exclusively American phenomenon of the Cold War, was tailored to develop and produce military technologies equal to the existential threat perceived to be ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • United States Special Operations Forces

    by David Tucker, Christopher Lamb ...
    In October and November of 2001, small numbers of soldiers from the Army Special Forces entered Afghanistan, linked up with elements of the Northern Alliance (an assortment of Afghanis opposed to the Taliban), and, in a remarkably short period of time, destroyed the Taliban regime. Trained to work with indigenous forces and personnel like the Northern Alliance, these soldiers, sometimes riding on ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Competitive Strategies for the 21st Century

    Theory, History, and Practice

    Edited by Thomas G. Mahnken ...
    The U.S. today faces the most complex and challenging security environment in recent memory— even as it deals with growing constraints on its ability to respond to threats. Its most consequential challenge is the rise of China, which increasingly has the capability to deny the U.S. access to areas of vital national interest and to undermine alliances that have underpinned regional stability for ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Defending the Arsenal

    Why America’s Nuclear Modernization Still Matters

    Edited by Adam B. Lowther, Stephen J. Cimbala ...
    One important area of interest within military and policy circles focuses on an effort to revitalize the nuclear triad amidst a number of competing strategic interests. The difficulties arising from US engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan are leading many scholars and policy makers to question whether a reinvigorated nuclear triad has any role in deterring modern adversaries. This volume takes an ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Toward a New Maritime Strategy

    American Naval Thinking in the Post-Cold War Era

    by Peter Haynes ...
    Toward a New Maritime Strategy examines the evolution of American naval thinking in the post-Cold War era. It recounts the development of the U.S. Navy's key strategic documents from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the release in 2007 of the U.S. Navy's maritime strategy, A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower. This penetrating intellectual history critically analyzes the Navy's ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Agents of Innovation

    The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese Navy

    by John Trost Kuehn USN (Ret.) ...
    Agents of Innovation examines the influence of the General Board of the Navy as agents of innovation during the period between World Wars I and II. The General Board, a formal body established by the Secretary of the Navy to advise him on both strategic matters with respect to the fleet, served as the organizational nexus for the interaction between fleet design and the naval limitations imposed ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • To Kill Nations

    American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction

    by Edward Kaplan ...
    "Edward Kaplan's To Kill Nations is a fascinating work that packs a thermonuclear punch of ideas and arguments... The work is suitable for anyone from advanced undergraduates to experts in the field."â• Strategy BridgeIn To Kill Nations, Edward Kaplan traces the evolution of American strategic airpower and preparation for nuclear war from this early air-atomic era to a later period (1950–1965) in ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Airpower Pioneers

    From Billy Mitchell to Dave Deptula

    Edited by John Andreas Olsen ...
    Series series History of Military Aviation
    Airpower Pioneers studies twelve especially influential airmen, detailing their impact on the evolution of the United States Air Force (USAF). Rather than focus on command in a series of air campaigns, this book describes the personal qualities and careers of people who distinguished themselves first and foremost by advancing airpower theory, doctrine, and strategy, and in certain cases by ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD