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Encounter Books,USA Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in
Book SynopsisThis original collection offers hope to those who believe that the cause of world peace requires a new American foreign policy and repairing our depleted military. The twelve contributors to this book show why America must take another look at our possible adversaries and real strategic partners. Present Dangers offers practical strategies for policymakers eager to disarm adversaries like North Korea and Iraq and head off the terrorist threat. Intellectuals, historians and policy-makers such as James Ceasar, Ross Munro, Peter Rodman, Richard Perle, Rueel Marc Gerecht, Nicholas Eberstadt, Jeffrey Gedmin, Aaron Friedberg, Elliott Abrams, Frederick Kagan, Willliam Schneider, William Bennett, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald Kagan all challenge America to make sure that foreign affairs, a sleeping issue for the last eight years, gets a wake-up call in election year 2000.Table of contents, notes, bibliographic essay.
£16.14
Encounter Books,USA The Unsleeping Eye: Secret Police and Their
Book SynopsisDenis Boyles examines the internal crises that have changed the personality of what was once La Belle France, transforming it into a nation afflicted with status anxiety. "Vile France" is a work that will gratify Francophobes everywhere and cause even the most committed defender of the Jacques Chirac worldview to crack an occasional smile.
£18.04
Global Books China’s Naval Operations in the South China Sea:
Book SynopsisThis book provides a history of the South China Sea conflict and lays out the stakes for each of the bordering states and China’s interaction with them – namely, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Indonesia; it also examines the U.S. government’s role in the region. China’s Naval Operations in the South China Sea is highly topical; it examines the evolving perception of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) of the South China Sea (SCS), and Beijing’s accompanying maritime strategy to claim the islands and waters, particularly in the context of the strategies of the neighbouring stake-holding nations. In addition to long-standing territorial disputes over the islands and waters of the SCS, China and the other littoral states — Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Indonesia — have growing and often mutually exclusive interests in the offshore energy reserves and fishing grounds. Many other countries outside of the region worry about the protection of sea lines of communication for military and commercial traffic, oil tankers in particular. These differences have been expressed in the increasing frequency and intensity of maritime incidents, involving both naval and civilian vessels, sometimes working in coordination against naval or civilian targets. Each chapter on the littoral states closely examines that state’s territorial claims to the islands and waters of the SCS, its primary economic and military interests in these areas, its views on the sovereignty disputes over the entire SCS, its strategy to achieve its objectives, and its views on the U.S. involvement in any and all of these issues.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Maps and Graph List of Acronyms Introduction: Evaluating China’s Maritime Strategy in the South China Sea 1. The Early History of the South China Sea Disputes 2. China’s Maritime Territorial Disputes with Vietnam 3. China’s Spratly-KIG Maritime Dispute with the Philippines 4. China’s Continental Shelf Dispute with Malaysia 5. China’s Energy Resources Dispute with Brunei 6. China’s Natuna Island Fishing Dispute with Indonesia 7. China’s Sovereignty Disputes with Taiwan 8. The United States as the South China Sea Maritime Arbiter Conclusions: China’s Contemporary and Future Maritime Strategy in the SCS Appendix A: Timeline SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS: Document 1: Sino-French Tonkin Treaty, 26 June 1887 Document 2: Cairo Declaration, 1 December 1943 Document 3: Potsdam Proclamation, 26 July 1945 Document 4: Treaty of Peace with Japan, 8 September 1951 Document 5: Treaty of Peace between the Republic of China and Japan, 28 April 1952 Document 6: U.S.-ROC Mutual Defense Treaty, 2 December 1954 (ratified 1955) Document 7: Formosa Resolution, 1955 Document 8: Declaration on China’s Territorial Sea, 4 September 1958 Document 9: Prime Minister Pham Van Dong’s Letter, 14 September 1958 Document 10: Shanghai Communiqué, 28 February 1972 Document 11: Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the People’s Republic of China and the United States of America, 16 December 1978 Document 12: Taiwan Relations Act, 10 April 1979 Document 13: Joint Communiqué on the Question of Arms Sales to Taiwan, 17 August 1982 24 Document 14: Law on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, 25 February 1992 Document 15: 1992 ASEAN Declaration on the South China Sea, 22 July 1992 Document 16: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, PART V, Exclusive Economic Zone, in force since 14 November 1994 Document 17: A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress regarding missile tests and military exercises by the People’s Republic of China, 21 March 1996 Document 18: Law on the Exclusive Economic Zone and the Continental Shelf of the PRC, 26 June 1998 Document 19: 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea, 4 November 2002 27 Document 20: Anti-Secession Law adopted by NPC, 14 March 2005 Document 21: Cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement, 29 June 2010 Document 22: In the Matter of the South China Sea Arbitration, 12 July 2016 Selected Bibliography Index
£91.20
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Check Your Vocabulary for Military English: A Workbook for Users
Book SynopsisThis workbook provides material to learn English with military vocabulary. It contains a range of activities, including word games, puzzles and quizzes to help improve specialist English vocabulary. It covers British, American and international military terms and includes: military personnel; manoeuvres; equipment; vehicles; weapons; tactics; and commands.
£9.93
Books Express Publishing Tactics in Counterinsurgency: The Official U.S.
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£33.20
Books Express Publishing A Different Kind of War: The United States Army
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£22.95
Military Bookshop The United States Naval War College Fundamentals of War Gaming
£17.95
Books Express Publishing U.S. Army War College Guide to National Security Issues, Vol II: National Security Policy and Strategy, 4th Edition
£24.95
Books Express Publishing The Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya
£19.95
Books Express Publishing Historical Perspectives of the Operational Art
£24.95
Books Express Publishing The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan
£47.45
Helion & Company Rhodesian Fire Force 1966-80
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£16.10
Helion & Company Forgotten Victorian Generals: Studies in the
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£22.50
Helion & Company Defending Island Britain in the Second World War:
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£17.95
Helion & Company Futile Exercise?: The British Army's Preparations
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£29.75
Haus Publishing Secret Service: National security in an age of
Book Synopsis'It was only two days after I arrived that I realised I had actually joined MI5. It did not exactly throw the doors wide and welcome scrutiny. The existence of the service was avowed but very little else about it was. Who worked for it? Where were its offices? What was its budget? What did it do? What was its relationship with government? All of these were secret - and yet MI5 was the most open of the three intelligence services.' In this short book, former Director General of the British Security Service Jonathan Evans describes how the secret services dealt with the need for greater openness and transparency during his tenure, even as national security needs were heightened. He draws insightful similarities between investigative journalism and espionage - from following leads and checking information to protecting sources - and welcomes the benefits of a mature relationship between the security services and journalism. He explores differences and similarities between other security services around the world, especially those in the United States, and how Brexit might impact the UK's future collaboration with other European security services. Secret Service is a fascinating insight into the world of the security services and a reminder of the importance of actively attending to the moral health of both the institution itself and its operatives who, by their very nature, are its greatest strength and also its greatest weakness.Trade Review"Politicians as well as agents would be well advised to read this book to sort out their own moral compass before heading too readily down that road." * Jonathan Fryer *
£7.59
Watkins Media Limited On War
Book SynopsisPrussian General Carl von Clausewitz famously wrote that ‘War is the continuation of politics by other means’. But what does Clausewitz mean to a world where economic, political and cultural conflicts are increasingly framed as wars? Written after the Napoleonic Wars but left unfinished at the author’s death and not published until 1832, On War is one of the most influential and important works on military strategy ever written. This new edition presents this classic text with a new introduction by Graham Harman, who reads Clausewitz’s ideas about war, politics and military strategy through the lens of speculative realism.
£10.44
Unicorn Publishing Group Invasion! D-Day & Operation Overlord in One
Book SynopsisThe invasion of Normandy was the most significant victory of the Allies in the Second World War. By 1944, over 2 million troops from over 12 countries were in Britain in preparation for the invasion. These forces consisted primarily of American, British and Canadian troops but also included Australian, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French, Greek, New Zealand, Norwegian, Rhodesian and Polish naval, air or ground support. The operation was codenamed "Overlord" which saw the largest invasion fleet ever assembled, before or since, landing 156,000 Allied troops on five beach-heads on D-Day 6 June 1944. These forces established a foothold on the shores of Northern France, and broke out into the French interior to begin a headlong advance. D-Day was originally set for June 5 but had to be postponed for 24 hours because of bad weather. The forecast was so bad that the German commander in Normandy, Erwin Rommel, went home to give his wife a pair of shoes on her birthday. He was in Germany when the news came. British factories increased production and in the first half of 1944 approximately 9 million tonnes of supplies and equipment crossed the Atlantic from North America to Britain. Bagpiper, Bill Millin struck up ‘Hieland Laddie’ as soon as he jumped into the shallows and then walked up and down the beach playing the pipes. German prisoners later admitted that they had not attempted to shoot him because they thought he had lost his mind. The British infantryman was paid £3 15s a month, the Americans got £12. A naval bombardment from seven battleships, 18 cruisers, and 43 destroyers began at 5am and went on until 6.25am. On the night of the invasion only around 15% of paratroopers landed in the right place. New gadgets designed for D-Day included a “swimming tank” and a flame throwing tank called “the crocodile”. There were even collapsible motorbikes. The morning after D-day the police raided a brothel, which French women had set up in a wrecked landing craft. 1,900 Allied bombers attacked German lines before the invasion began. Seven million pounds of bombs were dropped that day. A total of 10,521 combat aircraft flew a total of 15,000 sorties on D-Day. All this and much more is uncovered in a range of informative and detailed events spanning this most significant event in military history; biographies, fun facts, myth busters and illustrated throughout with infographics and contemporary photographs.
£14.39
Helion & Company The Equus Men: Rhodesia’S Mounted Infantry: the
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Folly Books Ltd The Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring
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£22.95
Exisle Publishing Eight Hundred Heroes: China's Lost Battalion and
Book SynopsisAcclaimed historian Stephen Robinson brings to life a legendary last stand in a revelatory new account of the Defense of Sihang Warehouse.Shanghai 1937. With invading Japanese troops poised to capture one of the worlds greatest cities after almost three months of brutal urban warfare, the Chinese Army begins to retreat – except for a single battalion that stays to fight. These Eight Hundred Heroes defended Sihang Warehouse, a six-storey concrete building and natural fortress, from wave after wave of Japanese assaults.The incredible battle waged for five long days. Thousands of spectators looked on from the relative safety of the British Concession inside Shanghais International Settlement. Western journalists with front row seats to the spectacle spread the story across the globe as the plight of the heroes captured the sympathy of the world. Their valour raised Chinese morale, as did the actions of the heroine Yang Huimin, a Girl Guide who delivered a Chinese flag to the defenders that flew over Sihang Warehouse as a beacon of hope.Eight Hundred Heroes is a thorough depiction of this legendary battle, for the first time bringing together first-hand accounts of the Chinese participants and the observations of Western witnesses. It explores how this incredible feat of heroism became an enduring myth that helped define modern China.
£21.24
Exisle Publishing The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American
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£14.24
Monash University Publishing Australia's Northern Shield?: Papua New Guinea
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£40.44
Lauric Enterprises, Inc. Knife Combatives
£66.46
Nimble Books The Handbook of Fifth-Generation Warfare (5GW)
£32.79
Red and Black Publishers Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla
£12.21
Bottom of the Hill Publishing The Book of Five Rings
£13.79
Suzeteo Enterprises The Art of War
£11.40
Black Irish Entertainment LLC One Tribe at a Time: The Paper That Changed the War in Afghanistan
£7.76
OR Books Chameleo: A Strange but True Story of Invisible
Book SynopsisA mesmerizing mix of Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, and Philip K. Dick, Chameleo is a true account of what happened in a seedy Southern California town when an enthusiastic and unrepentant heroin addict named Dion Fuller sheltered a U.S. Marine who’d stolen night vision goggles and perhaps a few top secret files from a nearby military base. Dion found himself arrested (under the ostensible auspices of The Patriot Act) for conspiring with international terrorists to smuggle Top Secret military equipment out of Camp Pendleton. The fact that Dion had absolutely nothing to do with international terrorists, smuggling, Top Secret military equipment, or Camp Pendleton didn’t seem to bother the military. He was released from jail after a six-day-long Abu-Ghraib-style interrogation. Subsequently, he believed himself under intense government scrutiny — and, he suspected, the subject of bizarre experimentation involving “cloaking”— electro-optical camouflage so extreme it renders observers practically invisible from a distance of some meters — by the Department of Homeland Security. Hallucination? Perhaps — except Robert Guffey, an English teacher and Dion’s friend, tracked down and interviewed one of the scientists behind the project codenamed “Chameleo,” experimental technology which appears to have been stolen by the U.S. Department of Defense and deployed on American soil. More shocking still, Guffey discovered that the DoD has been experimenting with its newest technologies on a number of American citizens. A condensed version of this story was the cover feature of Fortean Times Magazine (September 2013).Trade Review"By turns exuberant, resourceful, hilarious, dubious, and emotionally affecting, Chameleo thrives on the contact high of the possible, much like the twin arts of paranoia and conspiracy, from which it takes its manic energy....by many miles the weirdest and funniest book of 2015." —Flavorwire "Guffey is my kind of crazy. He understands that the universe is preposterous, life is improbable, and chaos rules: get used to it." —Pat Cadigan, author of Mindplayers "Robert Guffey's writing has impressed, entertained, and enlightened me pretty much since I first met him, as one of my Clarion West students. My suggestion? If he wrote it, read it." —Jack Womack, author of Random Acts of Senseless Violence
£12.34
PSI The Art of War
£11.49
Scribe Us The Changing of the Guard: The British Army Since
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£29.75
Tham T Ma On The Soldier's Path: The Way of Warrior
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£18.88
RAND What Deters and Why: Exploring Requirements for
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£29.44
RAND Opportunities for Including the Information
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£15.99
RAND Air Force Manpower Determinants: Options for
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£25.64
RAND Corporation How Can the Mobility Air Forces Better Support
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£23.74
RAND Corporation Battle of Gettysburg: The Impact of Alternative
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£28.99
Blackstone Publishing The Art of War Lib/E
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£16.00
Green Publishing Company Guerrilla Warfare Large Print
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£28.48
Massey University Press State of Threat: The challenges to Aotearoa New
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£37.59
Walter de Gruyter Ein Dach Über Europa: Politische Symbolik Und
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£35.96
Brill Schoningh Gettysburg 1863: Lees Gescheiterte Invasion
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£28.40
Peter Lang AG Nuclear Disarmament for Sustainable and Dynamic
Book SynopsisThe anthology discusses the formula of a «grand bargain» to denuclearize the Korean peninsula. Scholars from the US, South Korea, China, Russia and the former UK ambassador Everard review recent historical developments and political objectives and constraints of the DPRK regime. They also analyse the geopolitical situation in Northeast Asia from the perspective of China, Russia and South Korea. The book offers a multifaceted analysis of a pressing policy issue. The proposal is to offer security guarantees and substantial financial support for opening North Korea’s economy and taking verifiable steps towards denuclearization. Sanctions would be a last resort in case North Korea fails to denuclearize.Table of Contents«Grand bargain» – Denuclearization of the Korean peninsula – Security guarantees – Economic support – Economic reform and verifiable denuclearization – Six-part talks – Non-proliferation – Security order for Northeast Asia – Geo-politics – China, US, Russia, North Korea and South Korea relations
£32.49
Lit Verlag The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps: Border
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£19.76
Lit Verlag Transatlantic Perspectives on Security
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£27.86
Lit Verlag Strategic Culture Matters: A Comparison of German
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£18.90
Lit Verlag Borders and Security Governance: Managing Borders
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£24.30
