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Theory of warfare & military science
Hardcover. Through US military history, Lavender directly confronts the dominant US viewpoint of redemptive violence, the concept that a nation can use its military to improve the human condition. Alternatives are presented in order to encourage the current recessive worldview that supports conflict resolution, cooperation, collaboration and peaceful efforts. Series: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTJ; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482358
- ISBN
- 9781137482358
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.03
€ 68.03
Hardcover. Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century is one of the first books to tackle the big five technological threats all in one place: nanotech, robotics, cyberwar, human enhancement, and, non-lethal weapons, weaving a historical, legal, and sociopolitical fabric into a discussion of their development, deployment, and, potential regulation. Num Pages: 133 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPVH; JWA; JWK; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137449160
- ISBN
- 9781137449160
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.04
€ 66.04
Hardcover. What does modern warfare, as fought by liberal societies, have in common with our human evolution? This study posits an important relationship between the two - we have evolved to fight, and traditional hunter-gatherer societies were often violent places. But we also evolved to cooperate, to feel empathy and to behave altruistically towards others. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMH; JPS; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137428585
- ISBN
- 9781137428585
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.42
€ 127.42
Hardcover. With the U.S. war in Afghanistan in its twelfth year, axioms regarding the American national will in war not being able to tolerate anything other than quick and costless adventures have been found useless in understanding why the U.S. continues to persist in that endeavor. This book answers complex questions about modern US intervention abroad. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137426208
- ISBN
- 9781137426208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. This book explains Arab military responses to the social uprisings which began in 2011. Through a comparative case study analysis of Egyptian, Tunisian, Libyan, and Syrian militaries, it explains why militaries fractured, supported the regime in power, or removed their presidents. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 tables, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1FB; JPH; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 225 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137410047
- ISBN
- 9781137410047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.68
€ 149.68
Hardcover. "Soft" Counterinsurgency reviews the promises and achievements of Human Terrain Teams, the small groups of social scientists that were eventually embedded in every combat brigade in Iraq and Afghanistan. Num Pages: 118 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1KBB; HBWS5; JHBC; JWA; JWKF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137404800
- ISBN
- 9781137404800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.94
€ 65.94
Hardcover. Arguing that the suffering of combatants is better understood through philosophy than psychology, as not trauma, but exile, this book investigates the experiences of torturers, UAV operators, cyberwarriors, and veterans to reveal not only the exile at the core of becoming a combatant, but the evasion from exile at the core of being a noncombatant. Editor(s): Gertz, Nolen; Brooks, Dr. Thom. Series: Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351210
- ISBN
- 9781137351210
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Paperback. This book argues that a major reason for America's propensity to 'lose the peace' is the way the nation defines war and how the US military is currently organized for warfare. The author offers new propositions and operational approaches to war-planning that give new hope and practical solutions to overcoming the paradox of American Way of War. Num Pages: 338 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JPS; JPSD; JPWL; JWA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 172 x 20. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137344427
- ISBN
- 9781137344427
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.00
€ 128.00
Hardcover. Holmqvist presents an original account of the relationship between war and policing in the twenty first century. This interdisciplinary study of contemporary Western strategic thinking reveals how, why, and with what consequences, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq became seen as policing wars. Series: Rethinking Political Violence. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JKSW1; JPWS; JWA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137323606
- ISBN
- 9781137323606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardcover. What role should national militaries play in an increasingly globalised and interdependent world? This book examines the often difficult transition they have made toward missions aimed at protecting civilians and promoting human security, and asks whether we might expect the emergence of armed forces that exist to serve the wider human community. Series: New Security Challenges. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPS; JWA; JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032263
- ISBN
- 9781137032263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
hardcover. This volume offers a scientific approach to manage inter-country conflict. Readers will find that through simultaneous control of four specific aspects (democracy, dependency, allies and capacity), predicted dispute outcomes can be avoided. Series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JWA; UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 532.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857297891
- ISBN
- 9780857297891
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.60
€ 128.60
Hardback. In original essays written by both senior scholars as well as rising younger scholars in the field of international ethics, this volume addresses the ethics of war in an era when non-state actors are playing an increasingly prominent role in armed conflict. Editor(s): Heinze, Eric A.; Steele, Brent J. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFM; JPWS; JWA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616745
- ISBN
- 9780230616745
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
Paperback. Bringing together many of the most important contemporary writers on just war to consider questions of authority surrounding the just war tradition, this collection offers a compelling reassessment of the authority issue's centrality in how we can, do, and ought to think about war in contemporary global politics. Editor(s): Lang, Anthony F., Jr.; O'Driscoll, Cian; Williams, John. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: HPQ; JPS; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589019966
- ISBN
- 9781589019966
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Condition: New
€ 75.96
€ 75.96
Hardcover. Key reading for the discerning history buff or academic specialist Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBW; JWA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472118984
- ISBN
- 9780472118984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.92
€ 85.92
If War Comes Tomorrow?: The Contours of Future Armed Conflict
Garev, Makhmut Akhmetovich. Ed(S): Kipp, Jaco...
paperback. Focusing on the impact of new technologies, this book considers whether war is still a "continuation of politics by other means" or whether political, ideological and technical transformations have broken that connection. Editor(s): Kipp, Jacob W. Translator(s): Fomenko, Yakov. Series: Soviet Russian Military Theory and Practice. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations, index. BIC Classification: JWA; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 302.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780714643687
- ISBN
- 9780714643687
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Condition: New
€ 77.69
€ 77.69
Hardcover. Editor(s): Wade, Steven R. Num Pages: 103 pages. BIC Classification: JP; JWA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 103
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634834445
- ISBN
- 9781634834445
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Condition: New
€ 194.99€ 146.81
€ 194.99
€ 146.81
Hardcover. Editor(s): Perez, Craig. Num Pages: 167 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBW; JWA; JWL; LNDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 189 x 265 x 17. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634829878
- ISBN
- 9781634829878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 231.85€ 173.97
€ 231.85
€ 173.97
Hardback. Editor(s): Carpenter, Emily E. Num Pages: 119 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPA; JWA; JWG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 243 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634829250
- ISBN
- 9781634829250
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.99€ 146.81
€ 194.99
€ 146.81
Hardcover. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: JWA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 262 x 191 x 31. Weight in Grams: 930.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634635707
- ISBN
- 9781634635707
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 437.56€ 296.21
€ 437.56
€ 296.21
Paperback. Editor(s): Thompson, Oliver. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JWA; LNDK; LNFJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 154 x 232 x 8. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781536100815
- ISBN
- 9781536100815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 137.92€ 104.77
€ 137.92
€ 104.77