An explosive rethinking of the power and purpose of nuclear weapons — and a call for radical actionNuclear weapons have always been a serious but seemingly insoluble problem: while they’re obviously dangerous, they are also, apparently, necessary. This groundbreaking study shows why five central arguments promoting nuclear weapons are, in essence, myths. It is a myth:• that nuclear weapons necessarily shock and awe opponents, including Japan at the end of World War II• that nuclear deterrence is reliable in a crisis• that destruction wins wars• that the bomb has kept the peace for sixty-five years• and that we can’t put the nuclear genie back in the bottleDrawing on new information and the latest historical research, Wilson poses a fundamental challenge to the myths on which nuclear weapons policy is currently built. Using pragmatic arguments and an unemotional, clear-eyed insistence on the truth, he arrives at a surprising conclusion: nuclear weapons are enormously dangerous, but don’t appear to be terribly useful. In that case, he asks, why would we want to keep them?This book will be widely read and discussed by everyone who cares about war, peace, foreign policy, and security in the twenty-first century.

Product Description: Necessity and proportionality inform the laws of war, but how do these principles work in modern warfare? What new pressures do the practitioners of war face, especially in light of rapid changes in strategy and policy and an increasing emphasis on ethics and legality?Wars waged in fluctuating environments make the legitimacy of armed force hard to justify, especially among diverse international and transnational publics...read more

Product Description: For three decades, Ralph Peters has been the most provocative and visionary American writer on strategy, security, intelligence, and military affairs, predicting every major trend that has plagued the post-Cold-War world. A career military officer and acclaimed author, he has always faced the issues others shunned:The explosion of religious terrorism and its all-or-nothing natureThe resurgence of deadly ethnic strife as borders disintegrate around the worldThe fateful weaknesses of our extravagantly expensive intelligence systemThe dangers of over-reliance on technology to solve human problemsThe endless nature of 21st-century warfareOur military leadership's difficulty adapting to a changed worldThe colossal waste of taxpayer dollars on dubious weapons--at a cost in soldiers' livesWhy wishful thinking is as deadly as fanaticismThese and other enduringly vital themes are addressed in this definitive collection of the finest and most influential work of Ralph Peters over a generation of conflict...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays gives close scrutiny to three elements of the Second World War and Britain’s wartime strategy: the paramount importance of defending the British mainland and its population, the challenges of building and maintaining coalitions and alliances, and the central role the African continent assumed in all British strategic planning...read more

Product Description: Although prominent―some would argue pre-eminent―within the modern political lexicon, the concept of ‘security’ is complex and contested. While the meaning and reference point of security was once largely taken for granted within International Relations, the past thirty years or so have witnessed the growth of a range of approaches that refuse to take this concept and its application as self-evident...read more

Product Description: [Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] George Washington's military strategy has been called bumbling at worst and brilliant at best. So which is it? Was George Washington a strategic genius or just lucky? So asks Dave R. Palmer in George Washington's Military Genius...read more

Product Description: [MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] George Washington's military strategy has been called bumbling at worst and brilliant at best. So which is it? Was George Washington a strategic genius or just lucky? So asks Dave R. Palmer in George Washington's Military Genius...read more

Product Description: The UK's Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS) annual programme unites senior personnel from around the world who are preparing for the highest responsibilities in civilian and military spheres. Each year, representatives of some fifty countries share on average over a thousand years of experience in some of the most complex and demanding environments on earth...read more

Product Description: One of the most powerful forces on Earth is an organization fully aligned, individual by individual, team by team, to achieve mutual success.In this vivid business story, Ken Jennings and Heather Hyde provide a road map to guide leaders through the process of engaging employees at all levels of the organization to find the deeper meaning and higher purposes of their work...read more

Product Description: This text brings together a range of specially-commissioned chapters to provide an accessible introduction to Security Studies in the 21st century. Thethird edition has been expanded to cover non-military challenges to security, and includes new learning aids.

Product Description: This provocative book seeks to answer a most crucial―and embarrassing―question concerning the U.S. military: why the United States is so often stymied in military confrontations with seemingly weaker opponents, despite its "superpower" status...read more

Explores the theory and practice of war and peace in modern historical context. This book covers the high and low points of international politics over a two hundred year period, as well as a foray into the future out to 2025. It takes a view of what was relevant to the causes, courses, and consequences of wars.

Product Description: An introductory guide to the relationship between politics, strategy and war.

Product Description: Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader, whether the CEO at a Fortune 100 company, an entrepreneur, a church pastor, the head of a school, or a government official. Richard Rumelt argues that the heart of a good strategy is insight—into the true nature of the situation, into the hidden power in a situation, and into an appropriate response...read more