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  • To Dare Mighty Things

    U.S. Defense Strategy Since the Revolution

    by Michael O'Hanlon ...
    The definitive history of U.S. defense strategyMuch of the history of U.S. defense over the course of 250 years has been a story of success. Insulated by two oceans and mostly friendly neighbors, but constantly ambitious abroad, America has dared mighty things and often achieved them, argues defense analyst Michael O’Hanlon. After growing into a continental power, largely through force of arms, ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Military History for the Modern Strategist

    America's Major Wars Since 1861

    by Michael O'Hanlon ...
    The recent conclusion to the war in Afghanistan - America's longest and one of its most frustrating - serves as a vivid reminder of the unpredictability and tragedy of war.In this timely book, esteemed military expert Michael O'Hanlon examines America's major conflicts since the mid-1800s: the Civil War, the two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Now updated with a new preface that ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Military History for the Modern Strategist

    America's Major Wars Since 1861

    by Michael O'Hanlon ...
    The recent conclusion to the war in Afghanistan — America’s longest and one of its most frustrating — serves as a vivid reminder of the unpredictability and tragedy of war.In this timely book, esteemed military expert Michael O’Hanlon examines America’s major conflicts since the mid-1800s: the Civil War, the two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. O’Hanlon addresses profound ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • The Science of War

    Defense Budgeting, Military Technology, Logistics, and Combat Outcomes

    by Michael E. O'Hanlon ...
    The U.S. military is one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. How it spends its money, chooses tactics, and allocates its resources have enormous implications for national defense and the economy. The Science of War is the only comprehensive textbook on how to analyze and understand these and other essential problems in modern defense policy.Michael O'Hanlon provides ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Octopus, Squid & Cuttlefish

    A Visual, Scientific Guide to the Oceans' Most Advanced Invertebrates

    by Roger Hanlon, Michael Vecchione, Louise Allcock ...
    "Cephalopods are often misunderstood creatures. Three biologists set the record straight on the behaviors and evolution of these invertebrates of the sea." — Science NewsLargely shell-less relatives of clams and snails, the marine mollusks in the class Cephalopoda—Greek for "head-foot" —are colorful creatures of many-armed dexterity, often inky self-defense, and highly evolved cognition. They are ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Future of Land Warfare

    by Michael E. O'Hanlon ...
    Series series Geopolitics in the 21st Century
    What happens if we bet too heavily on unmanned systems, cyber warfare, and special operations in our defense?In today's U.S. defense policy debates, big land wars are out. Drones, cyber weapons, special forces, and space weapons are in. Accordingly, Pentagon budget cuts have honed in on the army and ground forces: this, after the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, seems like an appealing idea. No ... Read more

    $31.69 CAD

  • Audiobook

    To Dare Mighty Things

    U.S. Defense Strategy Since the Revolution

    by Michael O'Hanlon ...
    Narrated by Paul Heitsch ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 13 min

    The definitive history of United States defense strategyMuch of the history of United States defense over the course of 250 years has been a story of success. Insulated by two oceans and mostly friendly neighbors, but constantly ambitious abroad, America has dared mighty things and often achieved them, argues defense analyst Michael O'Hanlon. After growing into a continental power, largely through ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Wounded Giant

    America's Armed Forces in an Age of Austerity An eSpecial from The Penguin Press

    by Michael O'Hanlon ...
    A farseeing and controversial analysis of the military America needs and the military we can afford from the director of research at Brookings.As total federal debt trends toward 100 percent of the GDP, and America wavers on the edge of another recession, Congress has responded with a plan for deficit reduction—more than two trillion dollars over ten years. But its plan emphasizes some parts of ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Art of War in an Age of Peace

    U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint

    by Michael O'Hanlon ...
    An informed modern plan for post-2020 American foreign policy that avoids the opposing dangers of retrenchment and overextensionRussia and China are both believed to have “grand strategies”—detailed sets of national security goals backed by means, and plans, to pursue them. In the United States, policy makers have tried to articulate similar concepts but have failed to reach a widespread consensus ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Neither Star Wars nor Sanctuary

    Constraining the Military Uses of Space

    by Michael E. O'Hanlon ...
    Space has been militarized for over four decades. Should it now be weaponized? This incisive and insightful book argues that it should not. Since the cold war, space has come to harbor many tools of the tactical warfighter. Satellites have long been used to provide strategic communication, early warning of missile launch, and arms control verification. The U.S. armed forces increasingly use space ... Read more

    $27.39 CAD

  • The Senkaku Paradox

    Risking Great Power War Over Small Stakes

    by Michael E. O'Hanlon ...
    America needs better options for resolving potential crisesIn recent years, the Pentagon has elevated its concerns about Russia and China as potential military threats to the United States and its allies. But what issues could provoke actual conflict between the United States and either country? And how could such a conflict be contained before it took the world to the brink of thermonuclear ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Playing by the Rules

    How Our Obsession with Safety is Putting Us All at Risk

    by Tracey Brown, Michael Hanlon ...
    Does an airline pilot really need to surrender his tweezers at airport security when he's about to board an aircraft equipped with an axe on the back of the cockpit door?Can a mobile phone really cause a major explosion at a gas station?And is there really a good reason why you should be be prevented from swimming in a lake more than a foot deep?These rules exist, and they exist in the name of our ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD