Social Security category: 3077 books
Waging Peace
How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 1998
Waging Peace offers the first fully comprehensive study of Eisenhower's "New Look" program of national security, which provided the groundwork for the next three decades of America's Cold War strategy. Though the Cold War itself and the idea of containment originated under Truman, it was...
Conflict and Levels of Analysis
The Gulf War in 1991
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,3, Free University of Berlin (Center for Global Politics), course: International Security, language: English, abstract: The causes of the Gulf War are numerous....
War and Ideas
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book collects the key essays, together with updating notes and commentary, of Professor John Mueller on war and the role of ideas and opinions.
Mueller has maintained that war (and peace) are, in essence, merely ideas, and that war has waned as the notion that 'peace' is a decidedly good...
China and Cybersecurity
Espionage, Strategy, and Politics in the Digital Domain
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
China's emergence as a great power in the twenty-first century is strongly enabled by cyberspace. Leveraged information technology integrates Chinese firms into the global economy, modernizes infrastructure, and increases internet penetration which helps boost export-led growth. China's pursuit of...
War, Torture and Terrorism
Rethinking the Rules of International Security
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
This book seeks to demonstrate how rules not only guide a variety of practices within international politics but also contribute to the chaos and tension on the part of agents in light of the structures they sustain. Four central themes- practice, legitimacy, regulation, and responsibility- reflect...
Russian Cyber Attack - Grizzly Steppe Report & The Rules of Cyber Warfare
Hacking Techniques Used to Interfere the U.S. Election and to Exploit Government & Private Sectors, Recommended Mitigation Strategies and International Cyber-Conflict Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Cyber attacks are a real threat to our country. This report presents the opposed views of USA and Russia on cyber security and gives insight into the activities of the Russian civilian and military intelligence Services (RIS) conducted during the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign. The Grizzly...
by Leigh Armistead
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007
In Leigh ArmisteadÆs second edited volume on warfare in the Information Age, the authors explore the hype over possibilities versus actuality in their analysis of Information Operations (IO) today. First, leaders must better understand the informational element of national power, and second, their...
Interrogation in War and Conflict
A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
This edited volume offers a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of interrogation and questioning in war and conflict in the twentieth century.
Despite the current public interest and its military importance, interrogation and questioning in conflict is still a largely under-researched...
Meta-Geopolitics of Outer Space
An Analysis of Space Power, Security and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Al-Rodhan sheds new light on the debate about the geopolitics of outer space, going beyond applying traditional International Relations approaches to space power and security by introducing a multidimensional spatial framework. The meta-geopolitics framework includes space and expands classical power considerations to cover seven state capacities.
The Rise and Fall of Intelligence
An International Security History
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
This sweeping history of the development of professional, institutionalized intelligence examines the implications of the fall of the state monopoly on espionage today and beyond.During the Cold War, only the alliances clustered around the two superpowers maintained viable intelligence endeavors, whereas...
Surprise Attack
From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to Benghazi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
“A valuable examination of U.S. national security crises past and present.” —Kirkus Reviews
Surprise Attack explores sixty plus years of military and terror threats against the United States. It examines the intelligence tools and practices that provided warnings of those attacks and...
Winning the Unwinnable War
America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Eight years after 9/11 and in the shadow of two protracted U.S. military campaigns in the Middle East, the enemy is not only undefeated but emboldened and resurgent. What went wrong_and what should we do going forward? Winning the Unwinnable War shows how our own policy ideas led to 9/11 and then...
Worlds Apart
Bosnian Lessons for Global Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Worlds Apart tells of a well-meaning foreign policy establishment often deaf to the voices of everyday people. Its focus is the Bosnian War, but its implications extend to any situation that prompts the consideration of military intervention on humanitarian grounds. Ambassador Swanee Hunt served in...
Drones and the Future of Air Warfare
The Evolution of Remotely Piloted Aircraft
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This book examines the evolution of airpower and specifically the growth and proliferation of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPAs).
While most existing literature examines either the law or ethics of RPAs, and some newer scholarship looks to the battlefield effectiveness (the gains from strikes...