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  • Organisational Learning and the Modern Army

    A New Model for Lessons-Learned Processes

    by Tom Dyson ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    Drawing upon extensive original research, this book explores best practice in army lessons-learned processes.Without the correct learning mechanisms, military adaptation can be blocked, or the wider lessons from adaptation can easily be lost, leading to the need to relearn lessons in the field, often at great human and financial cost. This book analyses the organisational processes and activities ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Precision Strike Warfare and International Intervention

    Strategic, Ethico-Legal and Decisional Implications

    Edited by Mike Aaronson, Wali Aslam, Tom Dyson, Regina Rauxloh ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This book explores whether the new capabilities made possible by precision-strike technologies are reshaping approaches to international intervention.Since the end of the Cold War, US technological superiority has led to a more proactive and, some would argue, high risk approach to international military intervention. New technologies including the capacity to mount precision military strikes from ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

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    How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the "Mexican Drug War"

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  • Fallout

    The True Story of the CIA's Secret War on Nuclear Trafficking

    by Catherine Collins, Douglas Frantz ...
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  • Peddling Peril

    How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemie

    by David Albright ...
    **“THE UNLEASHED POWER OF THE ATOM HAS CHANGED EVERYTHING SAVE OUR MODES OF THINKING, AND WE THUS DRIFT TOWARD UNPARALLELED CATASTROPHE.” —ALBERT EINSTEINW**ith the revelation of Iran’s secret uranium enrichment facilities, North Korea’s brazen testing of missiles and nuclear weapons, and nuclear-endowed Pakistan’s descent into instability, the urgency of the nuclear proliferation problem has ... Read more

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  • Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military

    The Ethics of an Unmanned Military

    Edited by Bradley Jay Strawser ...
    The increased military employment of remotely operated aerial vehicles, also known as drones, has raised a wide variety of important ethical questions, concerns, and challenges. Many of these have not yet received the serious scholarly examination such worries rightly demand. This volume attempts to fill that gap through sustained analysis of a wide range of specific moral issues that arise from ... Read more

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  • Nuclear Statecraft

    History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age

    by Francis J. Gavin ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    "Gavin not only succeeds in disentangling postwar nuclear history from the US-Soviet rivalry of the Cold War, but provides a deeper and more complex understanding of the long-term effects of nuclear weapons on Great Power relations."— Matthew Jones â• International AffairsWe are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy agenda, ... Read more

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  • Nuclear Lies, Deceptions and Hypocrisies

    by Mehdi Sarram ...
    Published just days before the ink was dry on the treaty with Iran, author Mehdi Sarram holds a postgraduate degree from the University of Michigan, a professional engineer with 47 years of nuclear experience and has traveled to 38 countries with nuclear programs. He was a US Atomic Energy Commission Senior Reactor Operator in 1965. Mr. Sarram was a professor at the University of Tehran 1968-1974 ... Read more

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  • European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy

    When and Why do they Work?

    by Clara Portela ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    Winner of the THESEUS promising award for Research on European Integration 2011.Sanctions are an important tool within the foreign policy of the European Union, which have until now remained obscure to both scholars and the general public. This book examines sanctions as a political tool of influence and evaluates the efficacy of sanctions imposed by the EU against third countries and their ... Read more

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  • The al-Qaeda Franchise

    The Expansion of al-Qaeda and Its Consequences

    by Barak Mendelsohn ...
    The al-Qaeda Franchise asks why al-Qaeda adopted a branching-out strategy, introducing seven franchises spread over the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. After all, transnational terrorist organizations can expand through other organizational strategies. Forming franchises was not an inevitable outgrowth of al-Qaeda's ideology or its U.S.-focused strategy. The efforts to create local franchises ... Read more

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  • Conflict and Peace Building in Divided Societies

    Responses to Ethnic Violence

    by Anthony Oberschall ...
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  • Rethinking the Bomb

    Europe and Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-First Century

    by Marc-Michael Blum ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    The question of what Europe’s nuclear strategy should be is rarely discussed. While Europe continues to play a crucial role on issues relating to non-proliferation, particularly in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme, nuclear strategy is generally considered to be within remit of Russia, the United States and NATO. The paper identifies possible scenarios where the deployment of ... Read more

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