Author | : Cindy Williams |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780262731409 |
An objective and detailed look at the American defense budget and military strategy.
Author | : Cindy Williams |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780262731409 |
An objective and detailed look at the American defense budget and military strategy.
Author | : Audrey Grant |
Publisher | : Baron Barclay Bridge Supplies |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-02-04 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9780939460656 |
This is the 3rd in the American Contract Bridge League's series of bridge books for beginning and advancing players. Successfully used for over 20 years, this edition has been updated to reflect modern theory. Lessons include Opening Leads vs. Notrump Contracts, Opening Leads vs. Suit Contracts, Third-Hand Play, Second-Hand Play, Defensive Signals, Developing Defensive Tricks, Interfering with Declarer, Making a Plan, and the new bonus lesson on Negative Doubles.
Author | : Karsten Friis |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 2017-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351854380 |
This book presents a cutting edge assessement of NATO's collective defence strategies in the immediate aftermath of the NATO Warsaw Summit. The chapters in this volume critically assess and discuss the various aspects of the main issues raised and the different initiatives proposed at the sumit, including the Very High Readiness Taskforce (VJTF), nuclear policies of deterrence, NATO's presence in the Baltics and Poland, and Sweden and Finland's relationship with NATO. The book will be a basis and a reference for on-going debates and discussions taking place in Europe and North America when it comes to collective defence and NATO’s relations to Russia.
Author | : Çağlar Kurç |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-05-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000191982 |
Defence Industries in the 21st Century explores the transformation in the global defence industrial production through examining the interaction between international and domestic factors. With the global defence industry and arms market likely continue to expand and mature, the ways in which this progression could influence international politics remain obscure. In practice, as the contents of this book show, the defence industrial bases and arms export policies of emerging states display significant variance. This variance is the result of a unique balance between domestic and international factors that has shaped the defence industrialisation behaviour and policies of the less industrialised states. One of the most important conclusions of the book is that the interplay between domestic and international factors clearly influences the variation in the emerging states’ defence industrialisation policies, as well as their success or failure. While international factors create opportunities, they also limit the options available to emerging economies. Domestic factors also play an important role by shaping the policy choices of the states’ decision makers. Exploring the balance between international and domestic factors and the ways in which they influence defence industrialisation in emerging states, Defence Industries in the 21st Century will be of great interest to scholars of Defence Industries, Arms Manufacturing, and Defence, Strategic and Security Studies more generally. The chapters were originally published in Defence Studies, Comparative Strategy and All Azimuth.
Author | : Ann R. Markusen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jacques S. Gansler |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0262072998 |
The author describes the transformations needed in government and industry to achieve a new, more effective system of national defense.
Author | : D. Reveron |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-07-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781137343000 |
Inside Defense brings together scholars, policy experts and practitioners to provide a comprehensive view of the U.S. military to understand the military's role in international politics and its relationship with domestic institutions and society.
Author | : Alexander Lanoszka |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2022-01-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1509545581 |
Alliance politics is a regular headline grabber. When a possible military crisis involving Russia, North Korea, or China rears its head, leaders and citizens alike raise concerns over the willingness of US allies to stand together. As rival powers have tightened their security cooperation, the United States has stepped up demands that its allies increase their defense spending and contribute more to military operations in the Middle East and elsewhere. The prospect of former President Donald Trump unilaterally ending alliances alarmed longstanding partners, even as NATO was welcoming new members into its ranks. Military Alliances in the Twenty-First Century is the first book to explore fully the politics that shape these security arrangements – from their initial formation through the various challenges that test them and, sometimes, lead to their demise. Across six thematic chapters, Alexander Lanoszka challenges conventional wisdom that has dominated our understanding of how military alliances have operated historically and into the present. Although military alliances today may seem uniquely hobbled by their internal difficulties, Lanoszka argues that they are in fact, by their very nature, prone to dysfunction.
Author | : Brad Roberts |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2015-12-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0804797153 |
“An excellent contribution to the debate on the future role of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence in American foreign policy.” ―Contemporary Security Policy This book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of nuclear weapons in its security strategies and the number of weapons in its arsenal. The case against nuclear weapons has been made on many grounds—including historical, political, and moral. But, Brad Roberts argues, it has not so far been informed by the experience of the United States since the Cold War in trying to adapt deterrence to a changed world, and to create the conditions that would allow further significant changes to U.S. nuclear policy and posture. Drawing on the author’s experience in the making and implementation of U.S. policy in the Obama administration, this book examines that real-world experience and finds important lessons for the disarmament enterprise. Central conclusions of the work are that other nuclear-armed states are not prepared to join the United States in making reductions, and that unilateral steps by the United States to disarm further would be harmful to its interests and those of its allies. The book ultimately argues in favor of patience and persistence in the implementation of a balanced approach to nuclear strategy that encompasses political efforts to reduce nuclear dangers along with military efforts to deter them. “Well-researched and carefully argued.” ―Foreign Affairs