Provides a coverage of issues of war and peace such as terrorism, irregular warfare and weapons of mass destruction. This work contains a set of reflections on the role of military power in the contemporary world. It analyzes conflicts from Afghanistan to the Iraq War and looks at the debates about the lessons that can be learned from these wars.

Product Description: “A brilliant history of our least-known wars on our most-ignored frontier—our northern border with Canada” (Los Angeles Times).Redirecting our attention from the Civil War to the real conflict that consolidated the United States, Cohen describes how five groups— the British, French, Americans, Canadians, and Indians—fought over the key to the North American continent: the corridor running from Albany to Montreal, known to Native Americans as the “Great Warpath...read more

Examines the three types of misfortune--failure to learn, to anticipate, and to adapt--and shows their implications in terms of a variety of miltary defeats in the twentieth century. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

A military strategist presents an account of leadership in wartime that places particular emphasis on the tension between civil and military leadership, citing the examples of such figures as Lincoln, Clemenceau, Churchill, and Ben Gurion to reveal fundamental leadership aspects that are crucial today. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: The lessons of the book apply not just to President Bush and other world leaders in the war on terrorism but to anyone who faces extreme adversity at the head of a free organization, including leaders and managers throughout the corporate world.

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More than any other episode since the end of the Cold War, the conflict in Kosovo revealed the distinctive attributes of a new American "way of war." In so doing, Kosovo also brought into sharp focus the military, political, and moral dilemmas confronting a liberal democracy intent on wielding preeminent power on a global scale. What are the moral implications posed by waging high-tech warfare for humanitarian purposes? Does the precedent set by intervention of this type point toward peace and stability or toward more war? How well suited are the United States military and American society as a whole to the security challenges of the age of globalization? According to Bacevich and Cohen, gauging the "success" achieved in Kosovo yields important answers to these and related questions. The volume includes a well-crafted historical overview of the war and six essays that place it in a broader context. The contributors explore the conflict's relationship to U.S. grand strategy, the Revolution in Military Affairs, and American civil-military relations, among other topics.Contributors: William A. Arkin, Andrew J. Bacevich, Eliot A. Cohen, Alberto R. Coll, James Kurth, Anatol Lieven, Michael Vickers (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Impartial and intellectually rigorous, this book provides a comprehensive and fully documented account of the 1991 war, concentrating on an analysis of the operational level in the belief that this level of warfare is the most difficult to characterize and one of the most important to understand...read more

Product Description: This fascinating study was first published in 1978 by the Harvard University Center for International Affairs.