Carte straina/Society & social sciences/Warfare & defence

Why the USS Thresher (Ssn 593) Was Lost, Hardcover - Bruce Rule

169,99 RON 181,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bruce RuleThe US nuclear submarine THRESHER (SSN-593) was lost because standard compensation procedures to adjust for hull ...

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Parker Hitt. The Father of American Military Cryptology, Hardback - Betsy Rohaly Smoot

169,99 RON

The first biography of an American cryptographer and his incredbile legacy.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): Betsy Rohaly Smoot...

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Haunted by Chaos. China's Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping, With a New Afterword, 2 ed, Paperback - Sulmaan Wasif Khan

169,99 RON

Before the Communists came to power, China lay broken. Today it is a global force, but its leaders are haunted by the past. Sulmaan Wasif Khan chro...

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Coccarde Tricolori 2014, Paperback - ***

170,99 RON

With its XII edition, our yearbook-magazine "Coccarde Tricolori" grows up and improves. Since this edition, it deals not only with the aviation sec...

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The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard, Paperback - Burton, James G.

171,99 RON 184,99 RON

Reducere. From the late 1960s through the mid-1980s, a small band of military activists waged war against corruption in the Pentagon, challenging a system th...

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Between Peace and War: 40th Anniversary Revised Edition, Paperback - Richard Ned LeBow

171,99 RON

This is an updated edition of the now-classic original of the same title. It has three new substantial chapters: a prologue, a chapter on new evide...

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The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age, Hardcover - Keir A. Lieber

173,99 RON

Leading analysts have predicted for decades that nuclear weapons would help pacify international politics. The core notion is that countries protec...

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ASVAB Study Guide: Prep Book & Practice Test Questions, Paperback - Asvab Test Study Guide Team

174,99 RON 187,99 RON

Reducere. ASVAB Study Guide: Prep Book & Practice Test Questions Developed for test takers trying to achieve a passing score on the ASVAB test, this comprehe...

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The Day After: Why America Wins the War But Loses the Peace, Hardcover - Brendan R. Gallagher

175,99 RON 188,99 RON

Reducere. Since 9/11, why have we won smashing battlefield victories only to botch nearly everything that comes next? In the opening phases of war in Afghani...

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Boeing B-47 Stratojet: Strategic Air Command's Transitional Bomber, Hardcover - Robert Hopkins III

176,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Robert Hopkins IIIAuthor: Mike HabermehlThe B-47 was the aircraft upon which Strategic Air Command (SAC) based its capabili...

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1945: Victory in the West, Hardback - ***

179,99 RON

Publisher: CornerstoneAuthor(s): Prof. Peter, TD, VR, BA (Hons), PhD, FRHistS, FRGS, KJ Caddick-AdamsNumber of pages: 688Publication date: 2022Dime...

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Training for Catastrophe. Fictions of National Security after 9/11, Paperback - Lindsay Thomas

179,99 RON

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Beyond Vom Kriege: The Character and Conduct of Modern War, Paperback - Jr. Hooker, R. D.

179,99 RON 192,99 RON

Reducere. The technology of warfare has changed since Carl von Clausewitz's Vom Kriege was first published, but the fundamental nature of modern warfare is s...

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The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present, Paperback - Beatrice Heuser

182,99 RON 195,99 RON

Reducere. Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater dest...

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Cornwallis. Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World, Hardback - ***

182,99 RON

The first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years-the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered America, India, Britain, and Ire...

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Shaped By War, Hardback - Don McCullin

183,00 RON

The author's pictures from the Citadel in Hue and in the ruins of Beirut are among the most unflinching records of modern war. In this book, he rec...

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Spectre of Afghanistan. Security in Central Asia, Paperback - Dr Kirill Nourzhanov

183,99 RON

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Durer's Fight Book. The Genius of the German Renaissance and His Combat Treatise, Hardback - Daniel Jaquet

184,99 RON

The first full-colour reproduction of the entire Durer fight book that has ever been published.Publisher: Greenhill BooksAuthor(s): Daniel JaquetIl...

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Grumman F11F Tiger, Paperback - Corky Meyer

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Corky MeyerThe full story of the Grumman Tiger and Super Tiger has only been told in part by non-Grumman aviation buffs and...

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Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany, Paperback - Dr. David S. Bachrach

185,99 RON

A complete survey of the military campaigns of the early Saxons, tactics, strategy, and logistics, demonstrating in particular the sophistication o...

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Cruiser Birmingham: Detailed in the Original Builders' Plans, Hardcover - Conrad Waters

188,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Conrad WatersThe technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completi...

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Region, Nation and Homeland: Valorization and Adaptation in the Moro and Cordillera Resistance Discourses, Paperback - Miriam Coronel Ferrer

189,99 RON 203,99 RON

Reducere. Movements tell stories of oppression and liberation. They critique the power relations that exist. They offer alternative visions of the homeland t...

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Insecurity, Paperback - ***

189,99 RON

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressIllustration(s): 20 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 272Collection: 21st Century StudiesPublication date: ...

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Similar cu Insecurity, Paperback - ***

Reliability and Alliance Interdependence. The United States and Its Allies in Asia, 1949-1969, Paperback - Iain D. Henry

189,99 RON

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Iain D. HenryIllustration(s): 2 Diagrams; 2 MapsNumber of pages: 258Collection: Cornell Studies in Se...

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Black Ops. The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior, Hardback - Ric Prado

191,99 RON

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Ric PradoIllustration(s): Includes colored endpapers plus one 16-page color photograph insertNumber of pages...

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Approaching the Nuclear Tipping Point. Cooperative Security in an Era of Global Change, Paperback - James E. Goodby

192,99 RON

Technology is developing rapidly, greatly empowering individuals, groups, and nations. Reaching beyond the military issues of arms control, the tex...

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White as the Shroud. India, Pakistan and War on the Frontiers of Kashmir, Paperback - Myra Macdonald

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Transforming the War on Drugs. Warriors, Victims and Vulnerable Regions, Paperback - ***

199,99 RON

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 215 x 51Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s)...

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Coalition Challenges in Afghanistan. The Politics of Alliance, Paperback - ***

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Civil War is Not a Stupid Thing. Accounting for Violence in Developing Countries, Paperback - Christoper Cramer

199,99 RON

Addresses the issues about increased violence in the developing countries with two common perspectives. The first is the liberal interpretation, an...

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The Great Decoupling: China, America and the Struggle for Technological Supremacy, Hardcover - Nigel Inkster

199,99 RON

For much of recorded history, China was a leading science and technology power. But just as the West rose, China turned in on itself, and missed th...

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The Age of the Gas Mask. How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War, Hardback - ***

199,99 RON

This vivid and accessible history of the civilian gas mask from the years 1915-1945 reveals the shocking consequences of modern, total war and how ...

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Oxford Handbook of War, Paperback - ***

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Reducere. Covering all aspects of war in the modern era The Oxford Handbook of War will be the definitive study in this area for years to come.

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The White Ally Toolkit Workbook: Using Active Listening, Empathy, and Personal Storytelling to Promote Racial Equity, Paperback - David W. Campt

204,99 RON 219,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionHow does a white person who aspires to be an ally against racism talk to their friends and family who are in denial about racism against...

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The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War, Paperback - Ali Ahmad Jalali

205,99 RON 220,99 RON

Reducere. Originally printed in very limited numbers in 1995, this book is a companion piece to "The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Af...

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Photography and War, Paperback - Pippa Oldfield

205,99 RON

An accessible introduction to photography's perhaps most contested, complex and emotive subject, war.

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Dominican Republic. Becoming a One-Party State?, Paperback - Carl Meacham

207,99 RON

Is democracy in danger in the Dominican Republic? Is the country headed toward sustained one-party rule? In an effort to understand the state of Do...

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Maritime Issues and Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific, Hardcover - Leszek Buszynski

207,99 RON

This edited volume examines the political and security issues influencing and shaping the developing maritime order in the Indo Pacific. If focuses...

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Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security, Paperback - Michael C. Desch

208,99 RON 223,99 RON

Reducere. How professionalization and scholarly "rigor" made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policy To mobilize America's i...

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Making Enemies. War and State Building in Burma, Paperback - Mary P. Callahan

209,99 RON

The Burmese army took political power in Burma in 1962 and has ruled the country ever since. The persistence of this government-even in the face of...

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The Soul of Armies: Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Military Culture in the Us and UK, Paperback - Austin Long

209,99 RON

For both the United States and United Kingdom counterinsurgency was a serious component of security policy during the Cold War and, along with coun...

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Facilitating with Heart: Awakening Personal Transformation and Social Change, Paperback - Martha Lasley

211,99 RON

Facilitating with Heart: Awakening Personal Transformation and Social Change is a book that integrates best practices in the field of facilitation....

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Future War and the Defence of Europe, Hardback - Julian Lindley-French

213,99 RON

This book offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe and provides a radical vision of a technology-enabling ...

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And Then Your Soul Is Gone. Moral Injury and Us War-Culture, Paperback - Equinox Publishing

213,99 RON

And Then Your Soul is Gone exposes the threads of violence that tie together the naturalized dynamics of U.S. ways of war and militarization with c...

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Children Born of War in the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Sabine Lee

213,99 RON

This book explores the life courses of children born of warin different twentieth-century conflicts, from the Second World War to theRwandan Genoci...

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Warfare in Woods and Forests, Hardback - Anthony Clayton

213,99 RON

Describes over 2, 000 years of warfare in woods and forestPublisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Anthony ClaytonIllustration(s): 12 b&w illu...

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A Century of Media, a Century of War, Paperback - Robin Andersen

214,99 RON

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Robin AndersenNumber of pages: 350Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 153 x 226 x 21Cover type: Paperb...

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Securing the State, Paperback - David Omand

216,99 RON 232,99 RON

Reducere. Governments recognise that national security in the turbulent conditions of the early twenty-first century must centre on the creation of public co...

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Russian Tactical Aviation: Since 2001, Hardcover - Dmitriy Komissarov

220,99 RON

The Tactical Aviation branch (FA-Frontovaya aviatsiya) has always occupied an important place in the structure of the Soviet, and subsequently Russ...

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Trail of Hope. The Anders Army, an Odyssey Across Three Continents, Hardback - Norman Davies

220,99 RON

Following the conquest of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish families were torn from their homes ...

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Boy of Battle Ford and the Man, Paperback - W. S. Blackman

220,99 RON

Covers the author's years growing up in early post-settlement Illinois, where he gave in to temptations such as drinking, gambling, and the lure of...

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Why Custer Was Never Warned: The Forgotten Story of the True Genesis of America's Most Iconic Military Disaster, Custer's Last Stand, Paperback - Phil

221,99 RON 237,99 RON

Reducere. For the first time, this ground-breaking book tells the forgotten story of the true genesis of the June 25, 1876 disaster along the Little Bighorn,...

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Napoleonic Artillery, Hardback - Paul Dawson

222,99 RON

The Napoleonic Wars gripped Europe, and beyond, for over ten years at the beginning of the Nineteenth century. Hundreds of battles were fought betw...

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In Athena's Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age, Paperback - John Arquilla

222,99 RON

A collection of essays about conflict in the information age that show how the information revolution is altering the nature of conflict.

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In God's Name. Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century, Paperback - ***

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Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since t...

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US Foreign Policy. Domestic Roots and International Impact, Paperback - Richard Johnson

228,99 RON

This textbook provides a valuable introduction to the construction and application of US foreign policy in the modern era, encouraging readers to t...

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Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq, Paperback - Lily Hamourtziadou

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Lily Hamourtziadou's investigation into civilian victims during the conflicts that followed the US-led coalition's 2003 invasion of Iraq provides i...

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China's Strategic Arsenal. Worldview, Doctrine, and Systems, Paperback - ***

230,99 RON

A critical look at how China's growing strategic arsenal could impact a rapidly changing world orderIllustrations: 3 Tables, unspecified; 6 Figures...

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The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas, Paperback - Lesley Gill

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand sold...

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The Power And The Light: The Congressional EMP Commission's War To Save America 2001-2020, Hardcover - Peter Vincent Pry

231,99 RON 248,99 RON

Reducere. Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) can be caused by Nature or Man and poses an existential threat to our electronic civilization. A nationwide blackout la...

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Guilt. A Force of Cultural Transformation, Paperback - ***

232,99 RON

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 234 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescope...

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Beautiful War. Studies in a Dreadful Fascination, Paperback - Philip D. Beidler

235,99 RON

Offers a wide-ranging exploration of armed conflict as depicted in art that illustrates the constant presence of war in our everyday lives. Philip ...

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All Necessary Measures?. The United Nations and International Intervention in Libya, Hardback - Ian Martin

235,99 RON

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Ian MartinNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 223 x 149 x 27Cover type: Hardback...

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Battle of the Bulge in Luxembourg: The Southern Flank - Dec. 1944 - Jan. 1945 Vol II The Americans, Hardback - Roland Gaul

237,99 RON

These two new volumes offer new insights into the events of one of the fiercest battles of World War II. Volume II covers the events from the Ameri...

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Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941, Paperback - David C. Evans

238,99 RON 255,99 RON

Reducere. One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal k...

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Negotiating Survival. Civilian-Insurgent Relations in Afghanistan, Hardback - Ashley Jackson

239,99 RON

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Ashley JacksonNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 147 x 223 x 35Cover type: Hard...

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Flying the Knife Edge: New Guinea Bush Pilot, Paperback - Matt McLaughlin

240,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. Silver Medal Winner at the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards in New York, NY, USA.Sometimes it's not about the destination...it's about the jo...

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Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World, Hardcover - David Vine

240,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. From Italy to the Indian Ocean, from Japan to Honduras, a far-reaching examination of the perils of American military bases overseasAmerican milita...

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Armies, Politics and Revolution. Chile, 1808-1826, Paperback - Juan Luis Ossa Santa Cruz

241,99 RON

This book studies the political role of the Chilean military during the years 1808-1826.

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Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, Paperback - Norman Polmar

247,99 RON 265,99 RON

Reducere. Submarines had a vital, if often unheralded, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War. Their crews carried out intelligence-collection ope...

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