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This book is the first in eight years to address the purposes, patterns, and prospects of Chinese arms transfers, and the only book to address China's recent and provocative rise to prominence as an arms trader since the mid-1980s.

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Chronicles the development of the Churchill Crocodile flamethrower tank. This book examines the effect of these tanks in battle from use in France to the terrifying attack on the Senio River in Italy, and also investigates the post-war use of the tanks to burn down the site of Belsen concentration camp, and their mobilisation for the Korean War.

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The last of Britain's infantry tanks, the Churchill, fought in every major battlefield from the sands of North Africa, through France and Germany to the rugged hills of Korea. A detailed double page full cutaway shows the internal workings of the tank.

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This collection of original articles addresses current policy issues for manning the U.S. Naval Reserve. They stress the increasing importance of the military reserves in a society where conscription and large standing armies may no longer be politically viable options.

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This work addresses the interaction between military operations and the activities of civilian agencies, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) during and after conflict. It looks closely at the cases of Panama, Kuwait and southern Iraq.

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Although many U.S. military planners and policy makers appear to place their faith in technology as the sine qua non of success in security and defense policy, technology can be self defeating and myopic if political and strategic vision are lacking.

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This fascinating book assesses Prussian military thinker Carl von Clausewitzs famous theory on warfare in relation to historical and modern-day conflictand future trends.

Carl von Clausewitzs On War is arguably the most important single work ever written on the theory of warfare and military strategy.

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In engaging and vivid detail Hew Strachan reveals the story behind the most important treatise on war ever written - a book that has been blamed for the unprecedented death tolls in the first and second world wars.

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The evolution of elite personal protection unitsalso known as close protection unitswithin the former Soviet Union is one of the least examined, yet crucial political developments in this region.

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The colourful commander who inspired Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey

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Examines deterrence theory at a structural level, which allows a focus on the similarities between the major perspectives on nuclear strategic doctrine. By examining such issues as validity standards and the evaluation of evidence, Dauber aims to assess deterrence as a theory of persuasion.

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Almost from the first arrival of French and English colonists in eastern North America in the 16th century, settlers were forced to raise militias to protect themselves from the Indians. They made alliances with different tribes and fought alongside them during a series of frontier wars.

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Samuel Colt's revolvers have been iconic American handguns since 1836. Essential reading for anyone interested in small arms and their impact on the history of warfare.

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He also discusses numerous other U.S. Army units--infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineering, medical, quartermaster and signal--and offers important data on the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps.

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A one-stop resource for information about U.S. military commands and their organizations, this book describes the six geographic combat commands and analyzes their contributions to national security.

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"Offering a competitive strategy to defeat authoritarians' all-domain warfare, this book suggests a new combined effects and influence framework for democracies to employ before deterrence fails"--

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A consideration of the challenging area of change management within military organizations, and an assessment of the best means of planning for and implementing change. It demonstrates that the management of change is neither a "fire and forget" process nor one that leaders should avoid.

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This little-known story of Australia's M/Z Unit commandos, and the part they played in the Southwest Pacific during World War II, is a fascinating account of daring, clandestine operations conducted by the Allies deep into enemy-held territory.

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This text presents a comparative, international study of commissions of inquiry that have been convened in response to extraordinary failures and scandals.

In recent years, commissions of inquiry have been common to the politics of the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia.