American leaders focused on defeating the enemy rather than creating a stable post-war environment. What happened in Iraq was only the most striking example of this phenomenon, not an exception to the rule. Drawing on extensive research, Rose recreates the choices that presidents and their advisers faced in the final stages of every major conflict from World War I to Iraq

In this timely and important book, the author offers a provocative mingling of historical description with contemporary political analysis and reform prescription that challenges the conventional wisdom on clandestine collection. The book ultimately and persuasively asserts that the failure to have diplomatic relations has led to the inability to collect intelligence

The Battle of Kursk takes readers behind Soviet lines to discover what the Red Army knew about the plans for Hitler's offensive, relive tank warfare and hand-to-hand combat, and learn how the tide of battle turned. Its vivid portrayals of fighting in all critical sectors place the famous tank battle in its proper context

Marina Ottaway examines five countries (Egypt, Azerbaijan, Venezuela, Croatia, and Senegal) which highlight the distinctive features of semi-authoritarianism and the special challenge each poses to policymakers

Acclaimed military expert Linda Robinson shows how the special operations forces are - after a decade of intensive combat operations - evolving to become the go-to force for operations worldwide

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