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  • Crude Strategy

    Rethinking the US Military Commitment to Defend Persian Gulf Oil

    Should the United States ask its military to guarantee the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf? If the US security commitment is in fact strategically sound, what posture should the military adopt to protect Persian Gulf oil?Charles L. Glaser and Rosemary A. Kelanic present a collection of new essays from a multidisciplinary team of political scientists, historians, and economists that provide ... Leer más

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  • US Defense Politics

    The Origins of Security Policy

    This book provides an accessible overview of US defense politics for upper-level students. This new edition has been updated and revised, with new material on the Trump Administration and Space Force.Analyzing the ways in which the United States prepares for war, the authors demonstrate how political and organizational interests determine US defense policy and warn against over-emphasis on ... Leer más

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  • Buying Military Transformation

    Technological Innovation and the Defense Industry

    In Buying Military Transformation, Peter Dombrowski and Eugene Gholz analyze the United States military's ongoing effort to capitalize on information technology. New ideas about military doctrine derived from comparisons to Internet Age business practices can be implemented only if the military buys technologically innovative weapons systems. Buying Military Transformation examines how political ... Leer más

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    Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times

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    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFormer Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure while serving in the Trump administration.From June of 2019 until his firing by President Trump after the November 2020 election, Secretary Mark T. Esper led the Department of Defense through an unprecedented time in history—a period marked by growing threats and ... Leer más

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  • Before the First Shots Are Fired

    How America Can Win or Lose Off the Battlefield

    The case against the United States' illegal and unnecessary wars from "one of the most respected and outspoken military leaders of the past two decades" ( 60 Minutes ).For the better part of the last half century, the United States has been the World's Police, claiming to defend ideologies, allies, and our national security through brute force. But is military action always the most appropriate ... Leer más

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  • Delta of Power

    The Military-Industrial Complex

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Invisible Soldiers

    How America Outsourced Our Security

    de Ann Hagedorn ...
    The urgent truth about the privatization of America’s national security that exposes where this industry came from, how it operates, where it's heading—and why we should be concerned.Thirty years ago there were no private military and security companies (PMSCs); there were only mercenaries. Now the PMSCs are a bona-fide industry, an indispensable part of American foreign and military policy. PMSCs ... Leer más

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  • The Future of U.S. Special Operations Forces

    In the past ten years, U.S. special operations forces have honed their counterterrorism manhunting ability with great operational success. They now are at a critical inflection point in their development where resources should be realigned to successfully employ the other of their two basic capabilities—working alongside indigenous forces to combat national and transnational threats. ... Leer más

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  • The End of Grand Strategy

    US Maritime Operations in the Twenty-First Century

    In The End of Grand Strategy, Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge the common view of grand strategy as unitary. They eschew prescription of any one specific approach, chosen from a spectrum that stretches from global primacy to restraint and isolationism, in favor of describing what America's military actually does, day to day. They argue that a series of fundamental recent changes in the ... Leer más

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  • The Wounded Giant

    America's Armed Forces in an Age of Austerity An eSpecial from The Penguin Press

    A farseeing and controversial analysis of the military America needs and the military we can afford from the director of research at Brookings.As total federal debt trends toward 100 percent of the GDP, and America wavers on the edge of another recession, Congress has responded with a plan for deficit reduction—more than two trillion dollars over ten years. But its plan emphasizes some parts of ... Leer más

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  • Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction

    Assessing the U.S. Government's Policy

    Series series Weapons of Mass Destruction and Emerging Technologies
    The Cold War phrase “weapons of mass destruction” continues to be used despite significant changes in international political cultures, military concepts of operation, and technology advances. Today, the term “weapons of mass destruction” (WMD) is used to address many things, from grams of ricin and barrels of industrial chemicals to megaton nuclear weapons. As a direct result of the decision to ... Leer más

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  • The New Counterinsurgency Era

    Transforming the U.S. Military for Modern Wars

    de David H. Ucko ...
    Confronting insurgent violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has recognized the need to “re-learn” counterinsurgency. But how has the Department of Defense with its mixed efforts responded to this new strategic environment? Has it learned anything from past failures?In The New Counterinsurgency Era, David Ucko examines DoD’s institutional obstacles and initially slow response to a ... Leer más

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