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  • Coercion, Survival, and War

    Why Weak States Resist the United States

    by Phil Haun ...
    In asymmetric interstate conflicts, great powers have the capability to coerce weak states by threatening their survival—but not vice versa. It is therefore the great power that decides whether to escalate a conflict into a crisis by adopting a coercive strategy.In practice, however, the coercive strategies of the U.S. have frequently failed. In Coercion, Survival and War Phil Haun chronicles 30 ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War

    Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare

    by Phil Haun ...
    Series series Cambridge Military Histories
    This book introduces a much-needed theory of tactical air power to explain air power effectiveness in modern warfare with a particular focus on the Vietnam War as the first and largest modern air war. Phil Haun shows how in the Rolling Thunder, Commando Hunt, and Linebacker air campaigns, independently air power repeatedly failed to achieve US military and political objectives. In contrast, air ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Air Power in the Age of Primacy

    Air Warfare since the Cold War

    Edited by Phil Haun, Colin Jackson, Tim Schultz ...
    Since the end of the Cold War the United States and other major powers have wielded their air forces against much weaker state and non-state actors. In this age of primacy, air wars have been contests between unequals and characterized by asymmetries of power, interest, and technology. This volume examines ten contemporary wars where air power played a major and at times decisive role. Its ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American Strategic Bombing in World War II

    Edited by Phil Haun ...
    Series series Aviation & Air Power
    Following the cataclysmic losses suffered in World War I, air power theorists in Europe advocated for long-range bombers to overfly the trenches and strike deep into the enemy's heartland. The bombing of cities was seen as a means to collapse the enemy's will to resist and bring the war to a quick end. In the United States, airmen called for an independent air force, but with the nation's return ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • My Share of the Task

    A Memoir

    by General Stanley McChrystal ...
    "General McChrystal is a legendary warrior with a fine eye for enduring lessons about leadership, courage, and consequence." —Tom BrokawGeneral Stanley McChrystal is widely admired for his hunger to know the truth, his courage to find it, and his humility to listen to those around him. Even as the commanding officer of all U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, he stationed himself forward and ... Read more

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  • The Generals

    American Military Command from World War II to Today

    by Thomas E. Ricks ...
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  • Can Intervention Work?

    by Rory Stewart, Gerald Knaus ...
    Series series Norton Global Ethics Series
    Best-selling author Rory Stewart and political economist Gerald Knaus examine the impact of large-scale interventions, from Bosnia to Afghanistan.“A fresh and critically important perspective on foreign interventions” (Washington Post), Can Intervention Work? distills Rory Stewart’s (author of The Places In Between) and Gerald Knaus’s remarkable firsthand experiences of political and military ... Read more

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    by Tom Clancy ...
    Series Book 6 - Tom Clancy's Military Referenc
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  • America's War for the Greater Middle East

    A Military History

    by Andrew J. Bacevich ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A searing reassessment of U.S. military policy in the Middle East over the past four decades from retired army colonel and New York Times bestselling author Andrew J. BacevichFrom the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have ... Read more

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  • The J Curve

    A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall

    by Ian Bremmer ...
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    A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing

    by Tom Clancy, John Gresham ...
    Series Book 3 - Tom Clancy's Military Referenc
    Now, for the first time, an insider's look at an Air Force combat wing -- the planes, the technology, and the people . . . with Tom Clancy as your guide.Tom Clancy's previous explorations of America's armed forces, Submarine and Armored Cav, revealed exclusive, never-before-seen information an the people and technology that protect our nation. Now, the acclaimed author of Clear and Present Danger ... Read more

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