This book depicts his sailor's story of adventures in the "Tin Can" Navy. Plucked from a comfortable civilian life Miller and his shipmates adapted to the spartan conditions of life at sea in a small hard riding ship. The discipline, responsibility, danger, travel and camaraderie of those four years forever changed their lives. The crew of USS Wren traveled over 50,000 miles completely around the world while taking their ship to Korea. This book describes life in a small ship in smooth and rough seas while operating with Fast Carrier Task Force 77 off the coasts of Korea, dodging and sinking mines

Often lost in the discussion about the nuclear crisis are its regional dynamics. From 2002 China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea struggled to navigate between the unsettling belligerence of North Korea and the unilateral insistence of the United States. This book focuses on their strategic thinking over four stages of the crisis

The book contained a detailed explanation and analysis of the Chinese military, from weapons and strategy to rank and discipline. Sun also stressed the importance of intelligence operatives and espionage to the war effort. Because Sun has long been considered to be one of history's finest military tacticians and analysts, his teachings and strategies formed the basis of advanced military training for millennia to come

The Strategic Survey annual review of world affairs from the International Institute for Strategic Studies is an invaluable tool for interpreting world-wide strategic developments, providing essential analysis of the year’s key international events for government policy makers, journalists, business leaders and academics

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

This book aims to redress state of affairs and re-examines John Boyd’s original contribution to strategic theory

In this volume on Stability Economics begins to fill the gap that expeditionary economics did not: the operational details - theoretical relationship between economics and security, strategic, political, and environmental contexts do military planners need to consider in order to write economic development lines of effort into operations, etc

David Glantz examines the Soviet study of war, the re-emergence of the operation level and its connection with deep battle, the evolution of the Soviet theory of operations in depth before 1941, and its refinement and application in the European theatre and the Far East between 1941 and 1945

The book covers recent crises in financial systems and job markets, the housing bubble, and environment, assessing their impact on systems thinking

Three former CIA officers, among the world's foremost authorities on recognizing deceptive behavior, share their proven techniques for uncovering a lie