This is a book by one of America's foremost military and political thinkers that shows how, if left unchecked, America's current political culture and historical capacity for crusade, motivated and corrupted by ideology, will prove far more destructive to the nation than all of Osama's devilish intentions. It talks about: how contemporary American ...
A national security and homeland defense adviser sounds the alarm in this new book, a follow up to his highly touted Unfinished Business: Afghanistan, the Middle East and Beyond--Defusing the Dangers to America's Security. Here Harlan Ullman warns that the United States is fighting a war it does not understand and waging it in the wrong places ...
This volume addresses the question of "how much defence is enough", in the post-Cold War world. The end of the Cold War has led to major reductions in the military might of the former adversaries. For the moment, although the United States is reducing its Cold War active-duty force of 2.2 million to about 1.4 million and yearly defence budget of ...
In the Clausewitzian view, "shock and awe" were necessary effects arising from application of military power and were aimed at destroying the will of an adversary to resist. Earlier and similar observations had been made by the great Chinese military writer Sun Tzu around 500 B.C. Sun Tzu observed that disarming an adversary before battle was ...
This study of military strategy and tactics introduces the doctrine of "shock and awe" and is said to have been the key text behind the planning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003.
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