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American Covert Operations
Traces our country's long history of covert and special operations, focusing on the similarities and differences in the practice from the Revolutionary War to the present. Long …
Prisoners of War
America's current War on Terror is causing a readjustment of centuries of POW policies. Prisoners of war are once again in the news as America and Western Europe grapple with a …
Military Education
Professional Military Education (PME) is broader and more rigorous than is widely understood in the United States. Improving educational programs within the military service …
Contemporary Maritime Piracy
This volume provides a concise introduction to the issues and debates regarding modern piracy, including naval operations, law, and diplomacy, and focuses on the recent surge of …
War and Children
A comprehensive, up-to-date presentation of how children and young people are affected by and respond to situations of armed conflict and postwar reconstruction. War and Children: …
Emerging Military Technologies
This book examines emerging defense technologies such as directed energy weapons, nanotech devices, and bioscience applications that have the potential to dominate international …
Intelligence and National Security
Clark presents a brief history of the creation and development of the intelligence services in the United States. He centers his examination on the two main constants in the …
Military Transformation and Modern Warfare
Military transformation can be understood as comprising three overlapping and sometimes competing layers—the conventional-force dominated revolution in military affairs, a more …
Geopolitics
This concise introduction to the growth and evolution of geopolitics as a discipline includes biographical information on its leading historical and contemporary practitioners and …
Women in the United States Armed Forces
This handbook provides the reader with an historical and contemporary overview of the service by women in all branches of the U.S. military, tracing the causes and effects of …
Private Armed Forces and Global Security
Through an array of theoretical approaches and empirical material, this comprehensive and accessible volume surveys private armed forces and directly challenges conventional …