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Perfect Deterrence
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 48.00This book provides the first general analysis of deterrence since the end of the Cold War, offering a new approach to its assumptions, and analyzing them using game theory. Drawing on numerous historical examples, the authors' analysis provides a new understanding of threats and responses, and yields some surprising conclusions. more...
Analytic Architecture for Capabilities-based Planning, Mission-system Analysis and Transformation
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95This volume provides a definition of capabilities-based planning, puts it in the larger context of defence activity generally and sketches an analytic architecture for carrying it out. more...
Assessing the Value of Information Superiority for Ground Forces
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This is a proof-of-concept model for advanced communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C41SR) systems. more...
Examining the Army's Future Warrior
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95Explores and assesses selected technology options for future dismounted soldiers that could improve mission effectiveness and reduce casualties. This monograph summarizes a quick-response analysis done for the 2001 Army Science Board Summer Study on Objective Force Soldier. more...
Deadly Developments
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 41.95Ten anthropologists trace the machinations of war and the effects of violence in capitalist states, from their formation to the present. This collection, the newest volume in the War and Society series, questions the foundations of classical social theory while investigating local and international conflict through the critical and cross-cultural lens... more...
Improving the Army Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES)
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This report provides an assessment of The Army Plan (TAP) 2000-2015, the document that provides the initial programming guidance to the Army Program Evaluation Groups. The authors identify several problems, including mixing of operational and institutional functions, overlapping areas, overly broad and inappropriate mission areas, unwieldy structure,... more...
Managing Complexity During Military Urban Operations
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95With respect to military urban operations, this study proposes a new planning approach that employs identification of critical points--the essential elements of the urban area?s physical and demographic terrain--along with the notion of density--the number of elements and activities within the urban space--to aid military personnel in their efforts... more...
Organizational Management of Army Research
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95For planners considering changes in the organizational structure of Army combat materiel research and development activities, it is useful to examine the historical record. Insights from the Army?s past experience can illuminate beneficial features that should be incorporated in any new organization structure as well as prevent a repeat of what has... more...
Regional Peacekeepers
United Nations University Press 2003; US$ 26.95This work investigates the Russian military presence in its former Soviet territories to determine whether these forces have been genuine peacekeepers or are a post-imperial presence that seeks to maintain former strategic interests. more...
Cyberwar-Netwar
IOS Press 2006; US$ 132.00Internet is entering a stage which will have a stronger impact on the daily lives of all kinds of organizations. more...









