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Even as America faces a world of difficult-to-detect, low-tech, unconventional threats, the Bush administration has put its faith in a missile defence system or ""shield "" to keep us all safe.

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Offering new insight into Hitler as a military leader, this provocative study provides a clear view of Hitler's strengths and weaknesses and looks at what might have happened had he not blundered so often at vital times during the war.

Duffy begins with a look at Hitler's early victories in the Rhineland, Austria, and Czechoslovakia.

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In 1944 during World War II as the Allied forces were poised on the German border, Patton and Montgomery proposed a single-thrust attack into the German heartland to achieve early victory. This study examines this so-called "broad front-single thrust" and concludes that it was wishful thinking.

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Pinpoints and explains the history, the conditions, and future of hot button topics in various politically and culturally charged areas of North America and Europe.

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Conflicts range from the War of 1812 to the Mexican and Civil Wars, the two World Wars, conflicts in Southeast Asia, and recent wars in the Middle East.

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Helps solve some of the most enduring puzzles in military history, such as why Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, why Germany in 1918 renewed its attack in the West after securing peace with Russia in the East, and why Britain refused to seek peace terms with Germany after France fell in 1940.

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A brilliant and controversial investigation into what drives Americans to war - and a sober look at what causes us to lose our stomach for the fight.

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The first-ever inside look at the US military's secretive Remotely Piloted Aircraft program - equal parts techno-thriller, historical account, and war memoir.

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Rapid and momentous technological changes at the turn of the 20th century forced military professionals and educated civilians to envision the future of war and warfare, especially during an age where nations found themselves aggressively competing for dominance on the world stage.

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Those who penned the five papers presented by Wrage (political science, U.S. Naval Academy) were all involved in conducting the air warfare in American wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq and are understandably more likely to support the notion of air warfare as "immaculate" than those attempting

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This first history of British Imperial interventions in widely distant geographic areas in north and south Russia at the end of World War I describes the invention of a new kind of intelligence system.

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An examination of the downsizing of all four military services, including reductions in both human and material resources, and an assessment of the current and future effects of force restructuring.

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This book fills an important gap in the literature of modern warfare by focusing on random elements in warfare often overlooked in both the planning and execution of military operations-factors that can turn certain success into devastating failure.

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Thrilling examination of some of the actions the SAS has been involved in up to and including its service in East Timor.

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Although considered by MacArthur as his number one fighting general, Eichelberger is one of the least known of the World War II commanders.

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This is Gary McKay's story of how he was conscripted into the Australian army and his experiences in the Vietnam War. It is an action-packed, very readable account of an Australian soldier's war experience in Vietnam, developing strongly the Australian soldiers' great sense of mateship.

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The highest Commonwealth military decoration for gallantry is the Victoria Cross. This book examines the history of the award, presenting the stories of those New Zealanders who have won it. It also covers some of the controversies and political machinations surrounding those whose nominations have been declined.

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Imagine this. You are a country boy and just eighteen. The war has been raging for two years and because of your age, you have not been eligible for enlistment. Your mates, older by a few months are joining up and disappearing to the great adventure across the world in Europe.

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Robert Powell argues for the usefulness of formal models in studying international conflict and for the necessity of greater dialogue between modelling and empirical analysis.