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Bernard Brodie (1910-1978) was a leading 20th century theorist and philosopher of war. This book presents an exploration of Brodie's strategic and philosophical response to the nuclear age and of his effort to reconcile Carl von Clausewitz's theories to the new challenges of the nuclear era .

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Strategic Defense Initiative examines developments in the technologies currently being researched under SDI. The OTA does not repeat the work of its earlier reports but gives special attention to filling in gaps in those reports and to describing technical progress made in the intervening period. The report also presents information on the prospect

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To contribute to the worldwide debate on President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, here are two important studies, Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies and Anti-Satellite Weapons, Countermeasures. and Arms Control. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make availabl

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Cordesman argues that an effective defense against missile threats from "rogue" nations will require linking an effective national missile defense programme to an ambitious counterproliferation strategy, and a realistc approach to arms control and national security options.

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This contribution to the debate on security in the Caribbean highlights the security problems of small states. The contributors analyze internal and external security issues, military, political, and economic influences, and security initiatives and policies from indigenous, regional, and extra-regional perspectives.

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A reference for national security professionals, political appointees in the security realm, and others who participate in the formulation, evaluation, and execution of strategy, in addition to those who study and follow national security debates.

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Strategy in the Missile Age first reviews the development of modern military strategy to World War II, giving the reader a reference point for the radical rethinking that follows, as Dr. Brodie considers the problems of the Strategic Air Command, of civil defense, of limited war, of counterforce or pre-emptive strategies, of city-busting, of missil

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The author offers an academic and impersonal study of military geography, weighing the balance of advantage for combatants in different geographic settings. He explores the effect of geographical circumstances on the outcome of violent conflict, and examines the lessons learned from recent wars.

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Cordesman argues that new threats such as covert, terrorist and extremist attacks, require new thinking and offers a range of recommendations, from expanding the understanding of what constitutes a threat to bettering resource allocation and improving intelligence gathering and analysis.

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This text argues that the quick victory by Israeli troops over the combined forces of Egypt, Jordan and Syria in 1967 led to unrealistic expectations during the second conflict in 1973. It examines the limited Egyptian war strategy, and how their armed forces were able to hold Israel at bay.

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Of all the violent disputes that have flared across the former Soviet Union since the late 1980s, the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict is the only one to pose a threat to peace and security throughout Eurasia.

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In his analysis of insurgency war, Donald Hamilton first attempts to provide insight into a strategic concept he believes is little understood today, and to explain its complicated relationship to American policy failures in Southeast Asia during the post-1945 era of containment.

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Historical, political, and military analysis suggests that these interests can be protected efficiently and effectively with a U.S. military reduced in size by roughly 40 to 50 percent in most types of major combat forces, and by 95 percent in nuclear forces.

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The second section provides a bibliography of more than 700 entries.

The initial section of the book presents the historical background of the offensive and lays out the major interpretative disputes about it.

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This volume examines the evolution of the British Labour Party's defense and security policies since the party's formation in 1900.

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A concise explanation of all the elements that make up current British defence policy as it goes through a major transition to confront the technological and political challenges Britain faces in the coming decade. -- .

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After developing a framework of the conceptual components of national security, this study focuses on analyzing change--both in priorities and tradeoffs--in military security, economic security, resource/environmental security, and political/cultural security.