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In 1965, 7 Indonesian generals were killed in an attempted coup, allegedly launched by the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI). This book presents an account of the planning for the coup over a period of several weeks before the actual coup on 30 September 1965. It establishes the central role of the PKI in the planning.

This work develops conceptual and normative frameworks to better understand national non-proliferation efforts, then examines competing US and Australian strategies of capability denial and non-possession norm building.

He also offers some military cultural implications for the U.S. Army's ongoing transformation. The first part of the study offers an in-depth assessment of the military cultural preferences and characteristics of the British and American militaries.

An expert analysis of current U.S.-Russian relations as they play out in central Asia in the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11.

Although his provision of defensive HAWK anti-aircraft missiles, in response to Russian, French, and British arms sales to the Arabs, made him the first President to supply arms to Israel, Kennedy feared both exacerbation of the arms race and the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Shows how nuclear deterrence has worked rather than how theorists say it should work. This work also shows how nuclear proliferation threatens to create a far more complicated international situation as the number of states with nuclear deterrents grows. It puts some of the important problems of nuclear deterrence into global context.

This book recounts the successes and failures of the US Army's Army Transformation program in the larger context of the Department of Defense's overall military transformation effort. Spurred by the belief that RMA represented the future, the Department of Defense (DoD) set out to transform the U.S. armed forces by adopting RMA concepts.

An overview of the global problem of gun violence. Just as guns know no borders, gun violence has become a global epidemic, killing many people each year and injuring many more. Virtually every illegal gun begins as a legal gun. This book documents the global gun trade, its threat to public health, and efforts to remedy the situation.

Recounts the stories of 15 of the American Revolution's most important battlefield commanders. This work illuminates various aspects of American military and cultural history. It also investigates two vital themes of the American military tradition, civil-military relations and the respective roles and worth of professional and citizen soldiers.

Examines the history of US national security strategy, and he analyses the results and conclusions of several key documents, including the 9/11 Commission Report. This book coordinates all aspects of US national security legislation and looks at both hard power and soft power.

As shocking as the attacks of 9/11 were, we have been too quick to view the post-9/11 struggle against terrorism as entirely new and unprecedented. Even seemingly novel characteristics of terrorist methods may be more the outcome of earlier developments than a truly new phenomenon.

Oswald argues that European security autonomy will lead to a more balanced transatlantic partnership, even though American military might will remain far superior.

Includes the important organisational structures - armoured and infantry divisions, fighter and bomber wings, and carrier battle groups - in the context of modern conflicts, including Vietnam, the Gulf War, operations in Panama, Kosovo, and Somalia, and the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

As many as 30 states are still believed to have either a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons program. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the scientist who directed the Pakistani A-bomb program, has admitted selling nuclear weapons designs, and nuclear enrichment equipment to Libya, Iran, and North Korea.

The vicious urban battle for the insurgent-controlled city of Fallujah in November 2004 was a turning point in the ongoing counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq.

Presents a theory of preventative action based upon the beliefs and perceptions of leaders. This book examines five cases: British action in the Suez Canal Crisis, 1956; Israel's strike on Iraq's nuclear reactor, 1981; American preventive war planning, 1946-1954; Indian preventative war planning, 1982-2002; and America's war against Iraq, 2003.

The reality of the Arab-Israeli balance now consists of two subordinate balances: Israel versus Syria and Israel versus the Palestinians.

Facing the threats posed by suicide bombers, democratic governments have hard choices to make. This book argues that for intelligence organisations to face up to the challenges of global terrorism, they must change the way they think, and utilise all their resources effectively and creatively.

Now everyone can learn what the U.S. government knew about Saudi society, and when they knew it. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many intelligence failures have come to light.

Offers a detailed analysis of critical challenges affecting US national security and how failures in adapting to these challenges have exacerbated the strains on available resources. This book identifies the most glaring obstacles to successful national security planning and proposes constructive and practical ways to proceed in the future.

National security has always been an integral consideration in immigration policy, never more so than in the aftermath of September 11, 2001.

As Europe has become more unified and more democratic, NATO has assumed different layers of significance in the global security environment. This work argues that a careful analysis of NATO's global focus suggests that it is not the nature of NATO's mission that has changed, but rather its scope.

American foreign policy toward Europe is merrily rolling along the path of least resistance, in the belief that there is nothing really amiss with the European-American relationship that multilateralism will not fix.

History has often confirmed that it is not superior weapons but superior organizations that are the most effective factor in achieving military success. In light of this consideration, this work questions how the US military can best be reorganized to conduct military operations (as they are known in doctrinal terms) other than war.

It remains in the active stages of development more than two decades after it was introduced, even as American policy makers struggle to counter the emerging threat posed by rogue states engaged in the active pursuit and development of atomic weapons.

How does one effectively fight suicide bombers? What threat do they hold for Western society? How do people who love peace reconcile the need for war? Written by a noted genocide expert, this book addresses these questions, while giving an opinionated description of suicide bombings and terror as the opening salvos of a Third World War.

A personal memoir by a relief worker and conflict specialist who has worked on the ground in a host of war-torn countries. It argues that civil wars are often dismissed by westerners as tribal, ethnic, or regional disputes, when in reality such violence is fundamentally part of the human condition.

The two rising Asian powers, China and India, dependent as they are on seaborne commerce for their economic well-being, have set their eyes on the high seas. This book offers an examination of the rise of two naval powers and the potential impact that such an oceanic reconfiguration of power in Asia could have on long-term regional stability.

His staff officers and company, battalion, and regimental commanders were an extremely capable collection of military leaders that included 12 future generals (two of them SS), and two colonels who briefly commanded panzer divisions but never reached general rank.

Hope Is Not a Plan takes the reader inside the war in Iraq courtesy of participant-observers brought there to diagnose the insurgency and develop a get-well plan.