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Author | : Hew Strachan |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780714680699 |
The essays in this volume set the relationship between the Army and society in the context of the 20th century as a whole.
Author | : Sam Sarkesian |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2006-04-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113424469X |
This brand new edition of The US Military Profession into the Twenty-First Century re-examines the challenges faced by the military profession in the aftermath of the international terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. While many of the issues facing the military profession examined in the first edition remain, the 'new war' and international terrorism have compounded the challenges. The US military must respond to the changed domestic and strategic landscapes without diminishing its primary function—a function that now many see that goes beyond success on the battlefield. Not only has this complicated the problem of reconciling the military professional ethos and raison d’etre with civilian control in a democracy, it challenges traditional military professionalism. This book also studies the notion of a US military stretched thin and relying more heavily on the US Federal Reserves and National Guard. These developments make the US military profession increasingly linked to public attitudes and political perspectives. In sum, the challenge faced by the US military profession can be termed a dual dilemma. It must respond effectively to the twenty-first century strategic landscape while undergoing the revolution in military affairs and transformation. At the same time, the military profession must insure that it remains compatible with civilian cultures and the US political-social system without eroding its primary function. This is an invaluable book for all students with an interest in the US Military, and of strategic studies and military history in general.
Author | : Anthony King |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-07-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1509543678 |
Warfare has migrated into cities. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the major military battles of the twenty-first century have taken place in densely populated urban areas. Why has this happened? What are the defining characteristics of urban warfare today? What are its military and political implications? Leading sociologist Anthony King answers these critical questions through close analysis of recent urban battles and their historical antecedents. Exploring the changing typography and evolving tactics of the urban battlescape, he shows that although not all methods used in urban warfare are new, operations in cities today have become highly distinctive. Urban warfare has coalesced into gruelling micro-sieges, which extend from street level – and below – to the airspace high above the city, as combatants fight for individual buildings, streets and districts. At the same time, digitalized social media and information networks communicate these battles to global audiences across an urban archipelago, with these spectators often becoming active participants in the fight. A timely reminder of the costs and the horror of war and violence in cities, this book offers an invaluable interdisciplinary introduction to urban warfare in the new millennium for students of international security, urban studies and military science, as well as military professionals.
Author | : Editors of Popular Science Magazine |
Publisher | : Liberty Street |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2002-10-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781931933162 |
Looks at the weaponry, equipment, and technology of the modern-day soldier, and offers an illustrated tour of such innovations as the JDAM smart bomb, the CRW Dragonfly helicopter, and the biosensor.
Author | : Anthony King |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2019-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108476406 |
A history of modern military command, from the individualist, heroic generals of the twentieth century to the highly-professionalised command teams of the twenty-first. Profiling prominent contemporary generals and their staffs, King vividly analyses divisional headquarters, giving a unique insight into the transformation of military command.
Author | : Emile Simpson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199327882 |
This is a philosophical treatise on war written by an Oxford grad who served in Afghanistan.
Author | : William J Parker III, PhD |
Publisher | : Hillcrest Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1635051681 |
Written by senior military and interagency leaders who have served on every service headquarters staff, as well as the staffs of the Department of State, Director of National Intelligence, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, and the Vice President of the United States, the authors bring to the table over 150 years of operational experience, more than 50 worldwide deployments, 7 Bronze Stars, 4 doctorates and over 50 published articles and books.
Author | : Simon Reich |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2018-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501714643 |
In 'The End of Grand Strategy', Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge this common view. They eschew prescription in favour of describing and explaining what America's military actually does. They argue that each presidental administration inevitably resorts to each of the six variant of grand strategy that they implement simultaneously as a result of a series of fundamental recent changes - what they term 'calibrated strategies.' Reich and Dombrowski support their controversial argument by examining six major maritime operations, stretching from America's shores to every region of the globe. Each of these operations reflects one major variant of strategy. They conclude that grand strategy, as we know it, is dead.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Military art and science |
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Author | : David Fisher |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2011-03-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 019161582X |
With the ending of the strategic certainties of the Cold War, the need for moral clarity over when, where and how to start, conduct and conclude war has never been greater. There has been a recent revival of interest in the just war tradition. But can a medieval theory help us answer twenty-first century security concerns? David Fisher explores how just war thinking can and should be developed to provide such guidance. His in-depth study examines philosophical challenges to just war thinking, including those posed by moral scepticism and relativism. It explores the nature and grounds of moral reasoning; the relation between public and private morality; and how just war teaching needs to be refashioned to provide practical guidance not just to politicians and generals but to ordinary service people. The complexity and difficulty of moral decision-making requires a new ethical approach - here characterised as virtuous consequentialism - that recognises the importance of both the internal quality and external effects of agency; and of the moral principles and virtues needed to enact them. Having reinforced the key tenets of just war thinking, Fisher uses these to address contemporary security issues, including the changing nature of war, military pre-emption and torture, the morality of the Iraq war, and humanitarian intervention. He concludes that the just war tradition provides not only a robust but an indispensable guide to resolve the security challenges of the twenty-first century.