The wars between 1792 and 1815 saw the making of the modern world, with Britain and Russia the key powers to emerge triumphant from a long period of bitter conflict. In this innovative book, Jeremy Black focuses on the strategic contexts and strategies involved, explaining their significance both at the time and subsequently. Reinterpreting French ......
A Parable of Leadership and Decision Making in Modern Conflict
* Instruction on the best ways to command a counterinsurgency operation, presented in the form of a parable in which a fictional commander participates in virtual reality simulations of various fictional combat situations that include elements of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan * Explores the likely consequences of a range of command ...
Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War
He argues that these programs did far more than spread German industrial science: they forced businessmen and policymakers around the world to rethink how science and technology fit into diplomacy, business, and society itself.
Humans have always made decisions about war, but now machines are close to changing things - with implications for international affairs. Payne explores the origins of human strategy, and makes the argument that Artificial Intelligence will radically transform the nature of war by changing the psychological basis of decision-making about violence.
Humans have always made decisions about war, but now machines are close to changing things - with implications for international affairs. Payne explores the origins of human strategy, and makes the argument that Artificial Intelligence will radically transform the nature of war by changing the psychological basis of decision-making about violence.
In this study Bruce G. Blair examines accepted assumptions about mutual deterrence, force strength, and survivability, and concludes that the vulnerability of command, control, and communications not only precludes an effective retaliatory strike but also invites a preemptive Soviet first strike.
Lays out the case for four different options, each of which could serve as the organizing principle for future US defense plans and budgets. This Council Policy Initiative presents these choices as presidential speeches, preceded by a memo that explains the strengths, weaknesses, and politics of each alternative.
In this book foreign policy experts analyze current U.S.security concerns and the adequacy (or inadequacy) of current policies designed to address them. The authors present both the big picture and the smaller components of the U.S. security policy that make up the whole.