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Analysis of Air-based Mechanization and Vertical Envelopment Concepts and Technologies
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This report provides an assessment of the US Army's ability to insert mechanized forces in enemy-controlled terrain. The authors examined the performance of the national AAN advanced airframes under a variety of conditions. more...
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95For 50 years, the United States has had ill-fated experiences in effectively fighting insurgencies. In counterinsurgency terms, Vietnam and Iraq form two legs of a historically fraught triangle-with El Salvador providing the connecting leg. In light of this history, the author analyzes where the United States has gone wrong in Iraq; what unique challenges... more...
Urban Battle Fields of South Asia
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95Military operations in urban areas are among the most complex challenges confronting the U.S. Army. Compared to a number of other nations, the Army has relatively less experience operating in this environment. To that end, this monograph analyzes sustained campaigns of urban terrorism in Sri Lanka, India, and Pakistan, identifying key innovations of... more...
The Architecture of Imperialism
BRILL 2004; US$ 316.00This volume utilizes both archaeological and textual data pertaining to Egyptian military bases to examine the evolution of Egypt's foreign policy in the New Kingdom. The types of structures erected to house soldiers and administrators in Syria-Palestine, Nubia, and Libya differed in ways that do much to illuminate the nature of imperial aims in these... more...
A Genius for Deception
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 17.99In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tents behind British lines in North Africa. "Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents was an old British trick," writes Nicholas Rankin; German general Erwin Rommel not only knew of the ploy, but had copied it himself. Jones knew that Rommel knew. In fact, he counted on it--for these tents... more...
Counterinsurgency
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 14.99David 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 powerfully influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the Surge," now recognized as a dramatic success.... more...
One Hundred Unorthodox Strategies
Westview Press 1998; US$ 40.00One Hundred Unorthodox Strategies was compiled in the fifteenth century, during the Ming Dynasty, as a handbook of tactics based on Chinese military classics. Translated into English for the first time, this unique work draws on over two thousand years of experience in warfare to present a distillation of one hundred key strategic principles. Originally... more...






