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Coralling the Trojan Horse
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This study presents an alternative to continued reliance on close combat urban operations paradigms that require a commitment of large numbers of soldiers to urban operations. It largely focuses on combat operations, but is also applicable to serving objectives inherent during stability missions. more...
Capital Preservation
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This work is based on a conference whose objectives were to: explain the significance of urban areas in current and future military operations; and discuss methods and means of seizing, stabilizing, or controlling such areas in the 21st century, for example. more...
Urban Battle Command in the 21st Century
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95In every operation, the functions of command, control, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), and communications are all fundamental to success. But in cities, the dense population, many manmade structures, and other challenges act to severely impede these functions in several ways. more...
Urban Combat Service Support Operations
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95The inevitability of U.S. armed forces future involvement in urban contingencies worldwide demands that those responsible for arming, manning, sustaining, and otherwise supporting these operations prepare for the challenges inherent in such undertakings. more...
Beyond Shock and Awe
Penguin Group Inc. 2007; US$ 15.00FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK-A founding Delta Force member's anthology on the future of war. Media commentator Eric L. Haney-one of twelve founding Delta Force members and author of Inside Delta Force -along with other outstanding military analysts and award-nominated editor Brian M. Thomsen, examines our evolving military in the face of changing times,... more...
Phantom Warriors
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 7.99Here are some of the most courageous missions executed by six-man teams on their own deep behind enemy lines. more...
Spec Ops
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 19.95Vice Adm. William H. McRaven helped to devise the strategy for how to bring down Osama bin Laden, and commanded the courageous U.S. military unit that carried it out on May 1, 2011, ending one of the greatest manhunts in history. In Spec Ops, a well-organized and deeply researched study, McRaven analyzes eight classic special operations. Six are... more...
The Accidental Guerrilla
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 16.99David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare. A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, his vision of war dramatically influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the surge.". Now, in The Accidental Guerrilla,... more...
Treading on Hallowed Ground
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 23.99After America's Iraq adventure devolved into a debacle, a chorus of commentators and analysts noted that the U.S. military had no plan to fight a counterinsurgency campaign. Given the failure of conventional tactics, America in the last two years has redoubled its efforts to develop a new strategy to fight the Iraqi insurgency, and has gone so... more...
Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95This paper tests and ultimately disproves the assumption that doctrine as written and operations as conducted are tightly linked. Ingrained organizational concepts and beliefs have a much greater influence on operations than written doctrine. more...









