American National Security remains the ideal foundational text for courses in national security, foreign policy, and security studies. Every chapter in this edition has been extensively revised, and the book includes discussion of recent security policy changes in the Trump administration. Highlights include:
The True Story of Tommy Hitchcock--Sports Star, War Hero, and Champion
This is the true story of Tommy Hitchcock, a war hero, the world's greatest polo player, businessman, husband of a Mellon, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's idol after whom he fashioned two of his most famous fictional characters. Born in 1900 to a wealthy Long Island family of fox hunters and polo players, he joined the French Lafayette Flying Corps at ......
From the French and Indian Wars to Iraq and Afghanistan
American Guerrilla is a compelling narrative history of how Americans have fought unconventional warfare from the French and Indian Wars and the Revolution through the anti-insurgent campaigns of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The author provides the reader with a concise and engaging story of how the American approach to guerrilla warfare has ......
A History of the United States Air Force Featuring the Collection of the
Featuring the collection of airplanes, art, photographs, and memorabilia of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, this magnificently illustrated book tells the story of the beginnings of flight, through the creation of the U.S. Air Force as a separate branch of the military, to the ......
American CivilMilitary Relations offers the first comprehensive assessment of the subject since the publication of Samuel P. Huntington's fielddefining book, The Soldier and the State. Using this seminal work as a point of departure, experts in the fields of political science, history, and sociology ask what has been learned and what more needs ......
Essential history, leaders, and events in the social, political, and legal fight for freedom in America. Dr. Walter D. Greason, author, professor, historian, economist, and urbanist offers the need-to-know accounts of the struggle for justice and equality for African Americans.
Allies at Odds examines America's Vietnam policy from 1961 to 1968 in an international context by focusing on the United States' relationship with its European partners France, West Germany, and Great Britain. The European response to America's Vietnam policy provides a framew...
This title is filled with 1:72-scale drawings of armored vehicles from the U.S., Britain, Canada, and Russia, including: M4 Sherman medium tank (U.S.), T1E3 Aunt Jemima mine exploder (U.S.), M18 Hellcat tank destroyer (U.S.
In 1916 Alfred Wright enlisted in the AIF. After training at the Engineer Officer Training School in Moore Park and at Roseville NSW he embarked aboard HMAT A14 Euripides, headed for Britain. On the way, he bought an autograph book, and over the next four years, more than 100 of the people he met signed it.
