This volume addresses the question of what has been accomplished and what lessons have been learned from ten years of peace operations in post-conflict societies

This riveting inside account combines history and memoir to tell the full story of U.S.-Russia relations from the fall of the Soviet Union to the new rise of the Russian president

Despite the Army’s continuous engagement in operations other than war, relatively little has been written about the Army’s conceptual and doctrinal approach to “unconventional” situations prior to World War II. This study partially addresses that gap by examining how the Army performed two of its many traditional, yet unconventional, functions—counterinsurgency and contingency operations

This study shows how the key to understanding how special operations reside in the concept of strategic attrition and in the moral and material nature of strategy. It also highlights major figures such as Carl von Clausewitz, Hans Delbrück, and Mao Zedong, who understood these complexities and were experts in eroding an enemy’s will to fight

In the book describes the experiences of this post-Vietnam generation of commans in Panama, El Salvador, Desert Storm, Somalis, the Balkans, Afghhanistan and Iraq, including details of dramatic, previously untold missions

This is the comprehensive, standardized dictionary of military and associated terminology compiled, contains all definitions approved for DoD and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) use, as well as a complete listing of commonly used abbreviations and acronyms

This book contains eight lively conversations about defining the value of ethics, the foundations of ethics, including Divine command theory, relativism, egoism, utilitarianism, and deontology, as well as distinctive interpretations of the natural law approach to the ethics of virtue, and Carol Gilligan's widely discussed account of women's moral development in the context of the ethics of caring

A study of the disparate worlds of British colonial officers and Muslim Sudan's they sought to remake into modern imperial subjects, focusing on efforts to end female circumcision in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1920 and 1946

James March provides a introduction to decision making, a central human activity fundamental to individual, group, organizational, and societal life. March draws on research from all the disciplines of social and behavioral science to show decision making in its broadest context. By emphasizing how decisions are actually made he enables those involved in the process to understand it both as observers and as participants

During the years of American strategy in Afghanistan dominated by the counterinsurgency doctrine (COIN), a small group of dissident officers and military analysts began to question the effectiveness of armed state-building in achieving the limited primary goal of United States policy in Afghanistan: the destruction of "Al-Qaeda"