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Defense expert Kim Richard Nossal presents a damning indictment of defense procurement in Canada, and shows how to fix it. Defense procurement in Canada is a mess. New equipment is desperately needed for the Canadian Armed Forces, but most projects are behind schedule, over budget, or both. Not only has mismanagement cost Canadian taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, it has also deprived Canada and the CAF of much-needed military capacity. Successive...
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American Civil-Military Relations offers the first comprehensive assessment of the subject since the publication of Samuel P. Huntington's The Soldier and the State. Using this seminal work as a point of departure, experts in the fields of political science, history, and sociology ask what has been learned and what more needs to be investigated in the relationship between civilian and military sectors in the 21st century.
Leading scholars-such as...
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"Winner of the Lepgold Prize, Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University" "Winner of the Peter Katzenstein Book Prize, Cornell University Department of Government" "2019 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List" "One of Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2020" "Winner of the Best Book Award, Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association" "Winner of the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award, Mershon Center for International...
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According to General Jim Mattis, former US Secretary of Defense, Wounding Warriors is "an unflinching appraisal... a must-read for those committed to caring for our Veterans who have borne the battle."
Indeed, Wounding Warriors: How Bad Policy Is Making Veterans Sicker and Poorer is a transformational effort of research into the Department of Veterans Affairs and the US military.
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War has been institutionalized. Giant military industries, formed from thousands of companies and employers, ensure that every old generation of war profiteers is replaced by a new one. Admirals, generals and senior defense officials demand that trillions of dollars are funneled every year into the coffers of arms companies. People, whose careers depend on the cycle of arms and warfare, insist that any break in funding is some kind of betrayal or...
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Vipin Narang is the Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and Political Science and a member of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is author of Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era (Princeton). Twitter @NarangVipin
The first systematic look at the different strategies that states employ in their pursuit of nuclear weapons
Much of the work on nuclear proliferation has focused on why states pursue nuclear...
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War is the most brutal of human endeavors, and I have experienced enough war to know to take cover, when politicians and poets, and armchair warriors, speak extravagantly of patriotism and national honor. Join Major General Schloesser in the daily grind of warfare fought in the most forbidding of terrain, with sometimes uncertain or untested allies, Afghan corruption and Pakistani bet hedging, and the mounting casualties of war which erode and bring...
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Japan's invasion of Manchuria in September of 1931 initiated a new phase of brutal occupation and warfare in Asia and the Pacific. It forwarded the project of remaking the Japanese state along technocratic and fascistic lines and creating a self-sufficient Asian bloc centered on Japan and its puppet state of Manchukuo. In Planning for Empire, Janis Mimura traces the origins and evolution of this new order and the ideas and policies of its chief architects,...
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"Safe space" stickers on office doors at the Naval Academy. Officers apologizing for "microaggressions" against Air Force cadets. An Army "gender integration study" urging an end to "hyper-masculinity" in combat-arms units. Power Point presentations teaching commanders about "male pregnancy." A cover-up, as senior officials placed their thumbs on the scales to ensure the success of the first female candidates at the Army's legendary Ranger School....
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Born in 'the hellish aftermath of Pearl Harbor,' the Seabees began as barely armed civilians with no military training. They had an average age of 35. GI's would joke, "Never hit a Seabee, for his son might be a Marine." But America's bulldozing, jungle-hacking, 'Jap-cracking' Construction Battalion or the Seabees ('C.B.s') soon proved themselves miracle-construction-workers in seemingly impassable combat zones.
Before World War 2, Marines were the...
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A UN security advisor recounts his dangerous-and often contentious-time with the organization in this candid combat memoir.
Robert B. Adolph was a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces before becoming a security advisor for the United Nations. Adolph was, sent to some of the most dangerous places on earth in pursuit of humanitarian efforts. But sometimes, his worst opponent was the institution that had sent him. He holds the distinction of having...
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Barry R. Posen explores how military doctrine takes shape and the role it plays in grand strategy-that collection of military, economic, and political means and ends with which a state attempts to achieve security. Posen isolates three crucial elements of a given strategic doctrine: its offensive, defensive, or deterrent characteristics, its integration of military resources with political aims, and the degree of military or operational innovation...
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Israel's foreign policy is perceived to be essentially a defensive one by the international community. Why then is it the only nuclear power which refuses to sign the Non-proliferation Treaty? What is Israel's true foreign and policy?
Drawing on the Hebrew press, Israel Shahak reveals Israel's strategic foreign policy as it is really is, as it is presented through its own media: what other Israeli Jews are told – and not what their government...
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In The End of Grand Strategy, Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge the common view of grand strategy as unitary. They eschew prescription of any one specific approach, chosen from a spectrum that stretches from global primacy to restraint and isolationism, in favor of describing what America's military actually does, day to day. They argue that a series of fundamental recent changes in the global system, the inevitable jostling of bureaucratic...
95) Military Virtues
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Up until now, there has been no extant book focusing on military virtues aimed at professionals. Like personnel in other professional organizations, service personnel at every stage of their careers need a complement of virtues (excellent traits) in order to navigate the stress, decisions, and temptations they face.
At a minimum, military professionals need to have a clear and working knowledge of the ethical decision-making process that underpin...
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Unveil the intricacies of military prowess with "Strength and Strategy: Assessing Gulf Armies' Efficiency on the Field," a compelling collaboration between the GEW Intelligence Unit and esteemed editor and Middle-East expert Hichem Karoui. Published by Global East-West (London), this 156-page masterpiece dives deep into the heart of Gulf military operations, offering readers an unparalleled exploration of strategic efficiency on the battlefield.This...
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A sweeping history of the passionate men and women in uniform who have bravely and courageously exercised the power of dissent
Before the U.S. Constitution had even been signed, soldiers and new veterans protested. Dissent, the hallowed expression of disagreement and refusal to comply with the government's wishes, has a long history in the United States. Soldier dissenters, outraged by the country's wars or egregious violations in conduct, speak...
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A timely and searing account of the American war in Afghanistan
In Bravo Company, journalist and combat veteran Ben Kesling tells the story of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of the men of one unit, part of a combat-hardened parachute infantry regiment in the 82nd Airborne Division. A decade ago, the soldiers of Bravo Company deployed to Afghanistan for a tour in Kandahar's notorious Arghandab Valley. By the time they made it home, three...
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Nuclear war would be an apocalypse. Nuclear deterrence is effective in a crisis. Nuclear weapons shock and awe opponents. Killing civilians causes leaders to back down. The bomb has kept the peace for sixty-five years. These are the things we think we know about nuclear weapons, but it turns out they are myths, myths that nonetheless still shape our nuclear policy. In Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons, Ward Wilson blows the lid off the stale debate...
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An in-depth look at the past, present, and future of China's military.
When Mao Zedong proclaimed The People's Republic of China in 1949, China was a poor and wrecked society after years of continuous wars. For centuries, in fact, China had been seen as a sort of plunder-zone to be invaded, and then a backwater until the late 1980s-when domestic policy brought about monumental changes. The result is that China has grown to be the second largest economy...
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