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This text is an analysis of President Bush's regional defence strategy first unveiled in Aspen, Colorado, on August 2 1990. This strategy involves a mix of active, reserve and reconstitutable forces, and General Colin Powell's Base Force.

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Australia has found it difficult to effectively influence Pacific Island states in pursuit of its strategic interests. Informed by interviews with key decision makers, Pacific Power analyses why Australia has had difficulty exercising influence in the Pacific Islands and identifies how Australia can more effectively influence Pacific Island states in pursuit of its strategic interests.

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Students, professionals, and scholars in military and media studies will benefit from this top-level appraisal of the defense posture needed for the nation's security in the 1990s.

This dialogue with top-level authorities answers fundamental questions about U.S. defense needs in the near future.

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Demonstrating that none of the various perspectives under review has emerged as the clear winner in the struggle for theoretical hegemony in security studies, this book shows that eclectic perspectives, like democratic realist institutionalism, can better explain peace and security in the Asian Pacific.

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Based upon consideration of United Nation missions to the Congo, Somalia, and the former Yugoslavia and examination of counterinsurgency campaigns, Mockaitis develops a new model for intervening in intrastate conflicts and commends the British approach to civil strife as the basis for a new approach to peace operations.

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The author shows that although combat strategy and tactics receive high profile attention, it is "lift" capability and capacity, as a prerequisite, that is fundamental to attaining military objectives. He uses the US forces' six-month build-up to Desert Storm to demonstrate his arguments.

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This book examines the implications of counterinsurgency wars for U.S. defense policy and makes the compelling argument that the United States' default position on counterinsurgency wars should be to avoid them.

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Stubbs focuses on a few essential factors vital to understanding this three-way race: the acquisition of war materiel, food, human resources, and the movement of each.

In an analysis of coalition strategies, it is not enough to study the memoirs and memoranda of General Staffs or political figures engaged in war.

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This book analyzes President Bush's new Regional Defense Strategy--the master plan that will guide the transformation of U.S. defense policy for the post-Cold War era.

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This book examines the development of collective security by regional organisations particularly after the Cold War.

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The 1970s and 1980s witnessed growing concern in the United States regarding the relative decline of the American economy and, for defense planners, the military's growing dependence on foreign production of weapons' parts and subcomponentsthe guts of many critical weapons systems.

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A thorough examination of the nation of Saudi Arabia, focusing on the current state of affairs and potential future challenges.

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This book describes how the growing awareness of the strategic importance of science in the 1930s caused the Allied and German leadership to build scientific information supply systems that survived into the postwar era.

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An examination of Soviet military intelligence up to the rise of Nazi Germany.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower consistently advanced the cause of service unification and was instrumental in the post-war transformation of the military establishment.

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He has selectively annotated 12,645 cross-referenced entries and organized them into 27 sub-regional and country chapters including two particularly extensive chapters on Japan and China and two further chapters on relations between Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, and on U.S. and Soviet policy.

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This guide documents 800 sources that have appeared since the 1970s on ULTRA and MAGIC or the Allied code-breaking and and cryptanalytic assault on Axis Communications. It examines sources in ULTRA and MAGIC in the Pearl Harbour attack, the Battle of the Atlantic and other theatres of war.

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The more uncertain the developments in Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union become, the more urgent is the need to understand Soviet military thinking over 75-year span of Soviet history.

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A study of how Soviet military theorists developed and debated the concepts that provided the basis for the Kremlin's defence policies. The book explores the relationship between politics and military strategy, the assessment of threats to the USSR and the relationship between offence and defence.

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They shed new light on questions raised in earlier interpretations of the early Cold War years and reveal the origins of a surveillance activity that is implied, but not explained, in today's headlines.

This book provides the first documented description of the genesis and institutionalization of America's nuclear surveillance system.

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Bernard Brodie (1910-1978) was a leading 20th century theorist and philosopher of war. A key architect of American nuclear strategy, Brodie was one of the first civilian defense intellectuals to cross over into the military world. This book examines Bernard Brodie's strategic and philosophical response to the nuclear age.