The book outlines the mechanism of the coup and analyzes the different conditions - political, military and social - that give rise to it. It sheds much light on societies where power does indeed grow out of the barrel of a gun and the role of law

The author takes us on a journey through modern history with men and women who have changed the lives of every person on the planet. This is an epic story of the creation of the modern economy and how the economy saved humanity from poverty and deprivation, putting their material fate in their own hands, and not in the hands of Fate

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

Kuhn challenged long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas do notarise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation, but that the revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of “normal science

In this book Mao discusses the differences between guerrilla and 'orthodox' military forces, as well as how such forces can work together for a common goal

The Challenge of Change examines how military institutions attempted to meet the demands of the new strategic, political, and technological realities of the turbulent era between the First and Second World Wars

In the book, the author uses the analytical wisdom of a successful career in investing, carefully evaluating the performance of companies and their leaders. You will meet eight individualistic leaders, and you will learn about the traits and methods, striking in their consistency and ruthless rationality, that have helped these unique leaders achieve exceptional results

Military classics, which is a military-intellectual path with a critical analysis of the developing art of war in a historical and theoretical perspective, based on case studies in specific countries, describes how the concepts underlying operational art arose, how they received practical expression in various campaigns, and how they developed over time. The starting point is the campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte

The book gives a probing analysis of modern war, demonstrates why today’s conflicts must be understood as intertwined political and military events, and makes clear why the current model of total war has failed

The author has fully demonstrated his ability to consider the broad problems of history from the point of view of geographical influences, and has produced a fresh commentary on modern world politics. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work that has been digitally restored from a historical publication