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General
The Nobel Laureate published this influential treatise on how military capabilities are used for power and influence in 1966; this edition contains a new preface in which the author ponders the paradox that one source of considerable military power—atomic weapons—has not been used since 1945.
This work first appeared in 2006 and has proven to be somewhat prophetic; the technologically driven "Revolution in Military Affairs" has transformed the U.S. military regardless of context or reality, causing problems in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The shift in overseas military presence from a few large-scale bases to many small installations means that local political realities have a greater influence on U.S. policy options.
The process of conquest—whether Norman in England, Spanish in the Americas, or Chinese in Tibet—involves similar processes of exploitation, displacement, and post-hoc justification.
This elegant and lavish large-format volume boasts an impressive list of contributors; covers four, essentially Western, historical periods (ancient, medieval, age of expansion and empire, and modern) and offers brief synopses of the careers of great commanders from Cyrus the Great to Vo Nguyen Giap.
Iran is venerable and unique in the Middle East and needs to be treated as such; it is a complex and vibrant culture which deserves to escape the grip of its current repressive regime.
The author examines the 50-year history of space exploration and U.S. [End Page 337] USSR competition to make an argument for a cooperative, interdependent security policy.
In case studies of post-World War II relations between Germany and France and South Korea and Japan the author finds evidence that contrition for past atrocities can be helpful, but shared and non-recriminatory remembrance is more effective in achieving reconciliation.
In 2002, four historians from the University of Calgary compiled this college text in a her-culean attempt to cover the sweep of military history by focusing on themes common to all historical eras: among them the idea and experience of war, technological impact and the nature of armed forces.
Before 1800
Archaeology and history combine to present an extremely detailed picture of this site of Iberian resistance...