Product Description: In today's information age, the coexistence of nuclear weapons with advanced conventional weapons and information-based concepts of warfare is a military contradiction.Nuclear deterrence was initially predicated on geopolitical, military, and technical assumptions...read more

Product Description: The events of 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan make an obvious case for expert study of the George W. Bush defense program. During the Bush administration, the rise and fall of governments, the fates of peoples, and the very definitions of “war” and “victory” were up for discussion...read more

Product Description: This book examines the implications of deploying missile defenses by the United States and Russia within the current and next decades. Noting that U.S. plans to locate parts of the global ballistic missile defense system in eastern Europe contributed to a deterioration in U...read more

Product Description: This book considers the implications of deploying missile defenses, primarily nationwide missile defenses or NMD, by the United States and-or Russia within the current and next decade. The United States has already begun the process of limited ballistic missile defense (BMD) deployments and in 2007 announced plans to locate parts of the global BMD system in Eastern Europe...read more

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Product Description: Russia is a post-communist country struggling to adapt to the modern world economically and politically. In the twenty-first century, Russia faces postmodern social, cultural, and political problems with its old policy of deterrence...read more

This book responds to the demands of today's rapidly changing and unpredictable global marketplace that students will face when they enter the business world. The concepts and cases volume gives students a timely, rigorous and relevant book, written in an engaging manner, to spur their interest and excitement. A solid treatment of traditional topics in strategic management is combined with coverage of contemporary topics such as entrepreneurship, knowledge management and e-commerce and Internet strategies. Many applications from business practice plus sidebars (about six per chapter) bring key concepts to life. - Chapter-opening vignettes provide insightful, real-world examples of what can go wrong in strategic management. These are designed to spur student curiosity and help them to apply the course concepts. - The themes of ethics, globalization and technology are woven into the text and into the "Strategy Spotlight" boxes that appear in every chapter. - Many key text concepts are applied to start-up firms and smaller businesses, which is particularly important and relevant given the fact that many students will begin their professional careers in just these kinds of smaller firms.

The transformations in world politics and military technology resulting from the end of the Cold War have created equally daunting obstacles for strategic thinkers and defense planners. For more than four decades, American policymakers focused on the specific threat of highly structured conflict with the Soviet Union. However, since the early 1990s, this limited and predictable framework has been increasingly superseded by a more complex, worldwide arena in which state and non-state actors present challenges to U.S. national security and foreign policy. In this valuable new study, a select group of academics and former policymakers offers expert assessments of the future security environment. Across diverse topics and conceptual points of departure, the authors warn of challenges to U.S. security that those in and outside the government incorrectly perceive and incompletely understand. Restructuring the international system and rethinking strategy based on new technologies are necessary, although not sufficient, conditions for coping with the new world order. Depending on how well those responsible are able to anticipate the myriad scenarios, U.S. military strategy has the potential for future success or self-defeating paralysis. Strategic thinking for the twenty-first century will, among other requirements, demand that theorists and policymakers consider the implications of chaos and friction, information warfare, terrorism, the militarization of space, and the relationship between the hard power of destruction and the soft power of military persuasion.

Product Description: Cimbala analyzes military persuasion―the art of using armed force to support diplomacy, deterrence, crisis management, unconventional conflicts, peace operations, and other military activities short of major conventional war. As he shows, military persuasion requires that policy makers and diplomats understand the subtle interaction between force and diplomacy; each supports, or destroys, the other, depending upon the situation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Cimbala argues that nuclear complacency is based on a misreading of history and on unsound political and military analysis. The stability factors built into the Cold War international system are now missing. The spread of nuclear weapons after the Cold War moved toward regional actors outside of Europe, some with religious or national scores to settle...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: In Russia and Armed Persuasion, Stephen J. Cimbala argues that Russia's war planners and political leaders must make painful adjustments in their thinking about the relationship between military art and policy in the twenty-first century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work attempts to clarify the major problems facing Russia's armed forces in the present and immediate future. It covers threats from terrorists, break away republics and threats from outside Russia's borders. The book also includes political and economic problems facing the military...read more

Product Description: Cimbala shows why the prevention, management, and concluding of war all require an understanding of the subjective aspects of decision making as well as the hardware and tactics of military operations. A review of past cases of U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This edited collection considers the future of nuclear weapons in world politics in terms of security issues that are important for U.S. and other policy makers. The spread of nuclear weapons also is related to the equally dangerous proliferation of other weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological weapons, and of ballistic missiles of medium and longer ranges...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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