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  • The Science of War

    Defense Budgeting, Military Technology, Logistics, and Combat Outcomes

    by Michael E. O'Hanlon ...
    The U.S. military is one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. How it spends its money, chooses tactics, and allocates its resources have enormous implications for national defense and the economy. The Science of War is the only comprehensive textbook on how to analyze and understand these and other essential problems in modern defense policy.Michael O'Hanlon provides ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Future of Land Warfare

    by Michael E. O'Hanlon ...
    Series series Geopolitics in the 21st Century
    What happens if we bet too heavily on unmanned systems, cyber warfare, and special operations in our defense?In today's U.S. defense policy debates, big land wars are out. Drones, cyber weapons, special forces, and space weapons are in. Accordingly, Pentagon budget cuts have honed in on the army and ground forces: this, after the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, seems like an appealing idea. No ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • To Dare Mighty Things

    U.S. Defense Strategy Since the Revolution

    by Michael O'Hanlon ...
    The definitive history of U.S. defense strategyMuch of the history of U.S. defense over the course of 250 years has been a story of success. Insulated by two oceans and mostly friendly neighbors, but constantly ambitious abroad, America has dared mighty things and often achieved them, argues defense analyst Michael O’Hanlon. After growing into a continental power, largely through force of arms, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • Neither Star Wars nor Sanctuary

    Constraining the Military Uses of Space

    by Michael E. O'Hanlon ...
    Space has been militarized for over four decades. Should it now be weaponized? This incisive and insightful book argues that it should not. Since the cold war, space has come to harbor many tools of the tactical warfighter. Satellites have long been used to provide strategic communication, early warning of missile launch, and arms control verification. The U.S. armed forces increasingly use space ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Senkaku Paradox

    Risking Great Power War Over Small Stakes

    by Michael E. O'Hanlon ...
    America needs better options for resolving potential crisesIn recent years, the Pentagon has elevated its concerns about Russia and China as potential military threats to the United States and its allies. But what issues could provoke actual conflict between the United States and either country? And how could such a conflict be contained before it took the world to the brink of thermonuclear ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Defense 101

    Understanding the Military of Today and Tomorrow

    by Michael E. O'Hanlon ...
    In Defense 101**, a concise primer for understanding the United States' $700+ billion defense budget and rapidly changing military technologies, Michael O'Hanlon provides a deeply informed yet accessible analysis of American military power.**After an introduction in which O'Hanlon surveys today's international security environment, provides a brief sketch of the history of the US military, its ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Saving Lives with Force

    Military Criteria for Humanitarian Intervention

    by Michael E. O'Hanlon ...
    Military analyst Michael O'Hanlon shows how outside forces could successfully intervene to stop an ongoing cycle of warfare in a country whose government has collapsed or come under severe internal challenge.Based largely on recent U.S. experiences in Panama, Somalia, Bosnia, and elsewhere, as well as on U.S. military doctrine and information from the Pentagon's training and simulation centers, ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Military History for the Modern Strategist

    America's Major Wars Since 1861

    by Michael O'Hanlon ...
    The recent conclusion to the war in Afghanistan - America's longest and one of its most frustrating - serves as a vivid reminder of the unpredictability and tragedy of war.In this timely book, esteemed military expert Michael O'Hanlon examines America's major conflicts since the mid-1800s: the Civil War, the two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Now updated with a new preface that ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Military History for the Modern Strategist

    America's Major Wars Since 1861

    by Michael O'Hanlon ...
    The recent conclusion to the war in Afghanistan — America’s longest and one of its most frustrating — serves as a vivid reminder of the unpredictability and tragedy of war.In this timely book, esteemed military expert Michael O’Hanlon examines America’s major conflicts since the mid-1800s: the Civil War, the two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. O’Hanlon addresses profound ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • How to Be a Cheap Hawk

    The 1999 and 2000 Defense Budgets

    by Michael E. O'Hanlon ...
    Two important events in 1997--the balanced-budget deal and the completion of the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR)--promise to shape U.S. military policy for the next several years. Unfortunately, they are at odds with each other. The balanced budget accord will result in a real level of defense spending that is 8 percent lower in 2002 than in 1998. But the proportionate cuts in ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Healing the Wounded Giant

    Maintaining Military Preeminence while Cutting the Defense Budget

    by Michael E. O'Hanlon ...
    President Barack Obama survived a tenuous economy and a toxic political environment to win re-election in 2012, but the bitter partisan divide in Washington survived as well. So did the country's huge fiscal deficit. in this, the latest in a long line of Brookings Institution analyses of the defense budget, Michael O'Hanlon considers how best to balance national security and fiscal responsibility ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • A Half Penny on the Federal Dollar

    The Future of Development Aid

    by Michael E. O'Hanlon, Carol L. Graham ...
    Spending on U.S. foreign affairs, which constitutes only about one percent of the federal budget, is being sharply reduced. Under the President's 1996 budget plan, it will decline by just as great a percentage as defense between 1990 and 2002-and by substantially more than defense over the 1980-2002 period. No other major category of federal spending will undergo a real cut over either time period ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD