Product Description: Despite staggering defense costs, the U.S. military has not learned how to confront terrorist and insurgent networks. Traditional thinking and special interests have concentrated on potentially outdated systems, like aircraft carriers and heavily armored vehicles...read more

Product Description: Contrary to widely held views of Ronald Reagan as a reflexive man of action, John Arquilla's sharply revisionist study argues that he was drawn to and driven by ideas. In Mr. Arquilla's view, Reagan during his presidency articulated important new concepts that fundamentally reshaped American foreign policy...read more

Product Description: Swarming is a seemingly amorphous, but deliberately structured, coordinated, strategic way to perform military strikes from all directions. It employs a sustainable pulsing of force and/or fire that is directed from both close-in and stand-off positions...read more

A year after Rosemary's death, six people--her long-suffering husband, her devoted secretary, her lovers, and a betrayed wife--think about her murder, but only one is responsible for her death

Product Description: The term Netwar refers to societal conflict and crime, short of war, in which the protagonists are organized more as sprawling leaderless networks than as tight-knit hierarchies. The emergence of netwar raises the need to rethink strategy and doctrine to conduct counternetwar.

Product Description: Although there is already a wealth of literature that examines the causes and impacts of war on the international system, there has been little analysis of the decisions of leaders who initiate wars they are destined to lose. The failures of these aggressors have been variously explained as the inevitable occurence of "balancing behaviour" of international alliances, as over eagerness on the part of a would-be powers, or as a product of the inherent riskiness of war, but all are found wanting...read more