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Military Application of Space - The Indian Perspectives (Paperback): R.K. Singh Military Application of Space - The Indian Perspectives (Paperback)
R.K. Singh
R918 Discovery Miles 9 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on the relevance of space as a new domain towards enhancing war fighting capabilities. The Cold War saw rapid development of space technologies, which in turn spurred the growth of satellites. Slowly the traditional military capabilities for C4ISR were transferred to the space, the 'Ultimate High Ground.' The use of navigation and communication satellites in direct support to the US war efforts was visible during Gulf War I, which is aptly referred as "First Space War." The book delves at length about the Chinese Space Programme and their military exploits. Apart from militarization, the Chinese went ahead with weaponization of space, in order to gain asymmetric advantages over the much stronger and technologically advance US capabilities. The existing and futuristic military exploits of space assets by India has also been discussed in this book. A case for an "Indian Space Security Architecture" has been proposed, which shall secure the Indian space assets and provide comprehensive National Security. This book also highlights the necessity and urgency of Indian ASAT, as a strategic deterrence, to counter the threat to our space assets from the Chinese ASATs.

The Dictator's Army - Battlefield Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes (Hardcover): Caitlin Talmadge The Dictator's Army - Battlefield Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes (Hardcover)
Caitlin Talmadge
R3,686 Discovery Miles 36 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In The Dictator's Army, Caitlin Talmadge presents a compelling new argument to help us understand why authoritarian militaries sometimes fight very well-and sometimes very poorly. Talmadge's framework for understanding battlefield effectiveness focuses on four key sets of military organizational practices: promotion patterns, training regimens, command arrangements, and information management. Different regimes face different domestic and international threat environments, leading their militaries to adopt different policies in these key areas of organizational behavior.Authoritarian regimes facing significant coup threats are likely to adopt practices that squander the state's military power, while regimes lacking such threats and possessing ambitious foreign policy goals are likely to adopt the effective practices often associated with democracies. Talmadge shows the importance of threat conditions and military organizational practices for battlefield performance in two paired comparisons of states at war: North and South Vietnam (1963-1975) and Iran and Iraq (1980-1988). Drawing on extensive documentary sources, her analysis demonstrates that threats and practices can vary not only between authoritarian regimes but also within them, either over time or across different military units. The result is a persuasive explanation of otherwise puzzling behavior by authoritarian militaries. The Dictator's Army offers a vital practical tool for those seeking to assess the likely course, costs, and outcomes of future conflicts involving nondemocratic adversaries, allies, or coalition partners.

The Psychology of Modern Conflict - Evolutionary Theory, Human Nature and a Liberal Approach to War (Hardcover): K. Payne The Psychology of Modern Conflict - Evolutionary Theory, Human Nature and a Liberal Approach to War (Hardcover)
K. Payne
R2,879 Discovery Miles 28 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What does modern warfare, as fought by liberal societies, have in common with our human evolution? This study posits an important relationship between the two we have evolved to fight, and traditional hunter-gatherer societies were often violent places. But we also evolved to cooperate, to feel empathy and to behave altruistically towards others.

The Worldview of Redemptive Violence in the US (Hardcover): Wayne Lavender The Worldview of Redemptive Violence in the US (Hardcover)
Wayne Lavender
R2,232 Discovery Miles 22 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Through US military history, Lavender directly confronts the dominant US viewpoint of redemptive violence, the concept that a nation can use its military to improve the human condition. Alternatives are presented in order to encourage the current recessive worldview that supports conflict resolution, cooperation, collaboration and peaceful efforts.

The New Soldier in the Age of Asymmetric Conflict (Paperback): Rumu Sarkar The New Soldier in the Age of Asymmetric Conflict (Paperback)
Rumu Sarkar
R958 Discovery Miles 9 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The text for The New Soldier deals with the causes, symptoms and solutions to global terrorism, particularly Jihadist Islamic-based terrorism. The book is an expanded version of the essay "A Fearful Symmetry: A New Global Balance of Power?" for which the author was awarded the 2007 Grand Prize by the St Cyr Foundation, which supports the St. Cyr military academy established by Napoleon Bonapartein effect, France's West Point. The work was unanimously awarded the First (Grand) Prize by a jury of four distinguished panelists, and later translated and published in French under the title, "Une Symetrie de la Peur : Vers un Nouvel Equilibre Mondial Des Puissances?" (Paul Wormser, trans.)(CLD Editions, November 2008). The New Soldier is, in essence, a traditional soldier but one who is endowed with compassion, empathy and cultural understanding. This soldier is better able to navigate through the unknown terrain of ideological, emotional and psychological conflicts within the realm of global terrorism. The New Soldier is a strategic tool in combating global terrorism, and may be immediately deployed in multilateral forces. The practical uses of the New Soldier in the context of fragile states, particularly in terms of stabilizing and reconstructing war-torn or collapsed states by multilateral forces is analyzed in great depth in the book.

Inherit the Holy Mountain - Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Hardcover): Mark Stoll Inherit the Holy Mountain - Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Hardcover)
Mark Stoll
R1,715 R1,525 Discovery Miles 15 250 Save R190 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Historians of American environmentalism have long given religion either a negligible role or a negative one in the development of the field. According to the standard view, Christianity fostered attitudes hostile or indifferent to nature, with Protestantism the worst offender. While virtually all leading environmental figures did eventually leave organized religion, a large majority however had religious childhoods, usually in Reformed Protestant churches, and often counted clergy as close relatives. And although popular support for conservation and environmentalism was relatively non-denominational, Congregationalists provided the foundational ideas of conservation, while the rise and decline of environmentalism as a powerful national movement coincided with the prevalence of Presbyterian leadership. By tracing the history of American environmentalism from a perspective that puts religion at the center rather than the margins, Mark Stoll opens up a fundamentally new and much needed narrative in environmental studies. Inherit the Holy Mountain argues against the divide between religion and American environmentalism, demonstrating how religion necessarily provided environmentalists with deeply-embedded moral and cultural ways of viewing the world giving content, direction, and tone to the environmental causes they espoused. The book demonstrates how individuals' denominational origins corresponded with characteristic sets of ideas about nature and the environment, with each denomination fostering a distinctive culture with its own moral framework and its own placement of humans within the natural world. Stoll also demonstrates how each denomination also fostered a distinctive aesthetic reaction to nature, beginning each chapter of the book with an analysis of a representative work of art. Inherit the Holy Mountain also provides insight into the possible future of environmentalism in the United States, concluding with an examination of the current religious scene and consideration of what it may tell us. Whatever form the response to these problems will take in the twenty-first century, Stoll says, it will look very different, with different values, goals, and styles of leadership, than it did when the children of the Reformed churches created and led it.

The Philosophy of War and Exile (Hardcover): N. Gertz The Philosophy of War and Exile (Hardcover)
N. Gertz
R2,202 Discovery Miles 22 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Arguing that the suffering of combatants is better understood through philosophy than psychology, as not trauma, but exile, this book investigates the experiences of torturers, UAV operators, cyberwarriors, and veterans to reveal not only the exile at the core of becoming a combatant, but the evasion from exile at the core of being a noncombatant.

Ethics and Autonomous Weapons (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Alex Leveringhaus Ethics and Autonomous Weapons (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Alex Leveringhaus
R2,397 Discovery Miles 23 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is amongst the first academic treatments of the emerging debate on autonomous weapons. Autonomous weapons are capable, once programmed, of searching for and engaging a target without direct intervention by a human operator. Critics of these weapons claim that 'taking the human out-of-the-loop' represents a further step towards the de-humanisation of warfare, while advocates of this type of technology contend that the power of machine autonomy can potentially be harnessed in order to prevent war crimes. This book provides a thorough and critical assessment of these two positions. Written by a political philosopher at the forefront of the autonomous weapons debate, the book clearly assesses the ethical and legal ramifications of autonomous weapons, and presents a novel ethical argument against fully autonomous weapons.

Investigative Aesthetics - Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth (Paperback): Matthew Fuller, Eyal Weizman Investigative Aesthetics - Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth (Paperback)
Matthew Fuller, Eyal Weizman
R453 R409 Discovery Miles 4 090 Save R44 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, state violence, environmental destruction and repressive technologies. At the same time, fields not usually associated with aesthetics make powerful use of it. Journalists and legal professionals pore over open source videos and satellite imagery to undertake visual investigations. This combination of diverse fields is what the authors call "investigative aesthetics": mobilising sensibilities often associated with art, architecture and other such practices to find new ways of speaking truth to power. This book draws on theories of knowledge, ecology and technology, evaluates the methods of citizen counter-forensics, micro-history and art, and examines radical practices such as those of Wikileaks, Bellingcat, and Forensic Architecture. Investigative Aesthetics takes place in the studio and the laboratory, the courtroom and the gallery, online and in the streets, as it strives towards the construction of a new 'common sensing'. The book is an inspiring introduction to a new field that brings together investigation and aesthetics to change how we understand and confront power today. To Nour Abuzaid for your brilliance, perseverance, and unshaken belief in the liberation of Palestine.

Military Responses to the Arab Uprisings and the Future of Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East - Analysis from Egypt,... Military Responses to the Arab Uprisings and the Future of Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East - Analysis from Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Syria (Hardcover)
W. Taylor
R4,197 Discovery Miles 41 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explains Arab military responses to the social uprisings which began in 2011. Through a comparative case study analysis of Egyptian, Tunisian, Libyan, and Syrian militaries, it explains why militaries fractured, supported the regime in power, or removed their presidents.

War Narratives and the American National Will in War (Hardcover): Jeffrey J Kubiak War Narratives and the American National Will in War (Hardcover)
Jeffrey J Kubiak
R2,253 Discovery Miles 22 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With the U.S. war in Afghanistan in its twelfth year, axioms regarding the American national will in war not being able to tolerate anything other than quick and costless adventures have been found useless in understanding why the U.S. continues to persist in that endeavor. This book answers complex questions about modern US intervention abroad.

Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century: Ethics and Operations (Hardcover): R. O'Meara, Linden Peach Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century: Ethics and Operations (Hardcover)
R. O'Meara, Linden Peach
R1,999 Discovery Miles 19 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century is one of the first books to tackle the big five technological threats all in one place: nanotech, robotics, cyberwar, human enhancement, and, non-lethal weapons, weaving a historical, legal, and sociopolitical fabric into a discussion of their development, deployment, and, potential regulation.

The Terror Authorization - The History and Politics of the 2001 AUMF (Hardcover): S. Murray The Terror Authorization - The History and Politics of the 2001 AUMF (Hardcover)
S. Murray
R2,019 Discovery Miles 20 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In response to the September 11th terrorist attacks, Congress authorized "war" against al Qaeda in the statute known as the 2001 AUMF (Authorization for the Use of Military Force). Meant to be a temporary grant of powers to allow the President to retaliate against the perpetrators of the attack, two administrations have used the 2001 AUMF to justify controversial policies such as the indefinite detention of terrorist suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility, domestic surveillance without a warrant by the National Security Agency, and the lethal targeting of terrorist suspects using drone strikes in countries with which the United States is not at war. Shoon Murray explores the debate that has emerged about whether it is time to repeal the 2001 AUMF. She documents how the Bush and Obama administrations have used this "war" authority and warns against the sources of inertia--organizational interests, psychological biases, and political incentives--that could make it permanent.

"Soft" Counterinsurgency: Human Terrain Teams and US Military Strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan (Hardcover): Paul Joseph "Soft" Counterinsurgency: Human Terrain Teams and US Military Strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan (Hardcover)
Paul Joseph
R1,489 Discovery Miles 14 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Soft' Counterinsurgency reviews the promise and actual achievement of Human Terrain Teams, the small groups of social scientists that were eventually embedded in every combat brigade in Iraq and Afghanistan. The book, based on interviews with both HTT personnel and their military commanders, examines the military's need for sociocultural information, the ethical issues surrounding research carried out in combat zones, and the tensions between military and social science organizational cultures. The account provides a close, detailed account of HTT activities, a critical reflection on the possibilities of creating a 'softer, ' less violent counterinsurgency, and the difficulty of attempting to make war more 'intelligent' and discriminating.

The Great Illusion - A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage (Hardcover, New edition): Norman Angell The Great Illusion - A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage (Hardcover, New edition)
Norman Angell
R972 Discovery Miles 9 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Great Power Peace and American Primacy - The Origins and Future of a New International Order (Hardcover, New): J. Baron Great Power Peace and American Primacy - The Origins and Future of a New International Order (Hardcover, New)
J. Baron
R2,364 Discovery Miles 23 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the turn of the 15th century until the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the great powers frequently fought wars or regularly stood on the precipice of conflict. In contrast, for more than fifty years we have lived through an unprecedented period of great power peace. This book advances a theory of change based on the Realist tradition and uses it to explain the transformation of great power politics from centuries of warfare and multipolarity to a time of peace and American primacy.Challenging conventional wisdom about the causes of American primacy, Baron explores the contributions to peace made by democracy, nuclear weapons and globalization as well as the continued relevance of the balance of power. Providing new insights into major debates within the policy community, this book examines America's forward military presence, Western policy towards China and Russia, the evolution of the European Union and Japan's role in Asia.Baron raises important questions surrounding American primacy and the durability of the current international order, informing policy-making in the coming years as the United States attempts to manage the rise of China and secure its own leadership role and also considering how to maintain the current state of peace.

Thinking beyond War - Civil-Military Relations and Why America Fails to Win the Peace (Paperback, Revised): I. Wilson Thinking beyond War - Civil-Military Relations and Why America Fails to Win the Peace (Paperback, Revised)
I. Wilson
R2,895 Discovery Miles 28 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book argues that a major reason for America's propensity to 'lose the peace' is the way the nation defines war and how the U.S. military is currently organized for warfare. The author offers new propositions and operational approaches to war-planning that give new hope and practical solutions to overcoming the paradox of American Way of War.

War - A Simple Guide to a Complex Phenomenon (Paperback): John Plant War - A Simple Guide to a Complex Phenomenon (Paperback)
John Plant
R475 Discovery Miles 4 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the result of its author's determination to understand the phenomenon of war, a determination which has been one of the driving forces of his life for over half a century. It has taken well over ten years to write.
In this book two basic types of conflict are defined, primary and secondary warfare. The study mostly covers secondary warfare which is considered in terms of the army/government/people triad, both in the context of conventional war between countries, and guerrilla insurrections within countries.
Each aspect of warfare is illustrated, and each conclusion is backed up, with copious examples.
The final conclusion of the endemic nature of warfare will not please many people who read it, but if it has the effect of causing them to be much more critical of various government policies then this book can be regarded as a success.

Reflections on War - Preparedness and consequences (Paperback): Ian Liebenberg, Thean Potgieter Reflections on War - Preparedness and consequences (Paperback)
Ian Liebenberg, Thean Potgieter
R749 Discovery Miles 7 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Reflections on War is a comprehensive and objective investigation into the problems of war. The book explores the crucial link between theory, strategy and objectives in war, taking all the evidence and theory into account, and should be of interest to military practitioners, specialists in defence studies, and others interested in military history. Also notable about the work is its ability to draw insights together from international legal theory, management sciences, history, sociology and the political economy of war – showing due respect for the moral complexities involved in waging war.

Dynamics of Asymmetric Territorial Conflict - The Evolution of Patience (Hardcover, New): U. Resnick Dynamics of Asymmetric Territorial Conflict - The Evolution of Patience (Hardcover, New)
U. Resnick
R2,425 Discovery Miles 24 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides a comprehensive study of asymmetric territorial conflict combining game theory, statistical empirical analysis and historiographic analysis. It proposes a model to explain the dynamics of territorial conflict between rivals with a wide disparity in capabilities between them. Using the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a case study and testing the model on a database of almost four hundred territorial conflicts, Resnick argues that changes in 'patience' - explained by parallel evolutionary processes occurring in the respectively strong and weak societies - underlie the changing behaviour witnessed in such rivalries. Located within the general context of the interplay between material constraints and ideas, the theoretical significance of this model goes beyond the context of territorial conflict and can be seen to provide an explanation for the ideational aspects of power transitions and change in world politics.This book constitutes a significant advance in the literature on territorial conflict, which has increasingly come to be recognized as a key field of enquiry in the discipline of conflict studies and international relations scholarship in general.

Policing Wars - On Military Intervention in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover): Caroline Holmqvist Policing Wars - On Military Intervention in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
Caroline Holmqvist
R2,121 Discovery Miles 21 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This interdisciplinary study provides an original account of the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to show how, why and with what consequences, twenty-first century wars became seen as policing wars.
Holmqvist starts from the assumption that wars always reflect the societies that wage them and combines the analysis of western strategic thinking with a philosophical examination of the core ideas that structure the contemporary liberal imagination. She argues that the US-led interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq were characterised by a widespread understanding of war as 'policing' - that is, waged against opponents deemed 'criminal' rather than political, and directed at the creation and maintenance of a certain type of 'order'. Holmqvist turns to themes of social theory and philosophy to offer new perspectives on why the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were waged in the way they were, and why the fantasy of policing wars came to resonate so widely amongst policy makers and academics alike.
This unique contribution to the study of war and international politics will appeal to scholars of the philosophy and sociology of war, military strategy and international relations.

Logics of War - Explanations for Limited and Unlimited Conflicts (Hardcover, New): Alex Weisiger Logics of War - Explanations for Limited and Unlimited Conflicts (Hardcover, New)
Alex Weisiger
R1,274 Discovery Miles 12 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity fighting continues for years bring about a disproportionate amount of death and suffering. What separates these few unusually long and intense wars from the many conflicts that are far less destructive? In Logics of War, Alex Weisiger tests three explanations for a nation's decision to go to war and continue fighting regardless of the costs. He combines sharp statistical analysis of interstate wars over the past two centuries with nine narrative case studies. He examines both well-known conflicts like World War II and the Persian Gulf War, as well as unfamiliar ones such as the 1864 1870 Paraguayan War (or the War of the Triple Alliance), which proportionally caused more deaths than any other war in modern history.

When leaders go to war expecting easy victory, events usually correct their misperceptions quickly and with fairly low casualties, thereby setting the stage for a negotiated agreement. A second explanation involves motives born of domestic politics; as war becomes more intense, however, leaders are increasingly constrained in their ability to continue the fighting. Particularly destructive wars instead arise from mistrust of an opponent's intentions. Countries that launch preventive wars to forestall expected decline tend to have particularly ambitious war aims that they hold to even when fighting goes poorly. Moreover, in some cases, their opponents interpret the preventive attack as evidence of a dispositional commitment to aggression, resulting in the rejection of any form of negotiation and a demand for unconditional surrender. Weisiger s treatment of a topic of central concern to scholars of major wars will also be read with great interest by military historians, political psychologists, and sociologists."

Beyond Just War - A Virtue Ethics Approach (Hardcover, New): Claudia Card Beyond Just War - A Virtue Ethics Approach (Hardcover, New)
Claudia Card; D Chan
R1,514 Discovery Miles 15 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Are today's wars different from earlier wars? Or do we need a different ethics for old and new wars alike? Unlike most books on the morality of war, this book rejects the 'just war' tradition, proposing a virtue ethics of war to take its place. Like torture, war cannot be justified. David Chan asks and answers the question: 'If war is a very great evil, would a leader with courage, justice, compassion, and all the other moral virtues ever choose to fight a war?' A 'philosophy of co-existence' is proposed which is much more restrictive than just war theory but not pacifist. War can be correctly chosen by a virtuous leader only in rare 'supreme emergencies' when faced with enemies as evil as Hitler. This virtue ethics approach to war is used to find new answers to difficult issues such as humanitarian intervention, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

The RAND Corporation (1989-2009) - The Reconfiguration of Strategic Studies in the United States (Hardcover): Renuka George The RAND Corporation (1989-2009) - The Reconfiguration of Strategic Studies in the United States (Hardcover)
Renuka George; J. Samaan
R1,506 Discovery Miles 15 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What happened then to the intellectuals who spent their life working and writing about the Cold War when the conflict ended in 1991? Looking at one of the most emblematic American think tanks in recent history, the RAND Corporation, Samaan provides key insights on the evolution of strategic studies in the US in the last two decades. Based on numerous interviews and exclusive archives, this is a detailed analysis of RAND's intellectual and corporate development. But beyond this specific case study, the book is more than a historical portray of a American research center. Through RAND and its relationship with the American military, the author seeks to understand the rules of the 'field' of strategic studies in the United States. Moreover this work allows the readers to better comprehend the way the elements driving the US defense policies since 1989 - the political uncertainty and its doctrinal consequences - shaped major international events in the last two decades.

Justifying War - Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age (Hardcover): D Welch, J. Fox Justifying War - Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age (Hardcover)
D Welch, J. Fox
R2,927 Discovery Miles 29 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A new assessment of the debates about Just War in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the imperial wars of the nineteenth century through the age of total war, the evolution of human rights discourse and international law, to proportionality during the Cold War and the redefinition of authority with the ascendancy of terror groups.

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