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An essential introduction to contemporary strategy at the
operational level of war, now in its second edition Military
Strategy, Joint Operations, and Airpower introduces contemporary
strategy at the operational level of war, particularly as it
relates to airpower. Developed as foundational reading for all US
Air Force Academy cadets, Air Force ROTC students, and Officer
Training School candidates, this intermediate textbook is designed
to close the gap between military theory and practice. It covers
strategic foundations; operational design and joint-service
operations; the air, space, and cyber capabilities that comprise
modern airpower; and contemporary challenges in the application of
strategy. In this second edition, each chapter has been updated and
revised, and several sections have been expanded. Part 2, "Military
Forces and the Joint Fight," now features separate chapters about
each service. Similarly, operational design is expanded from one to
four chapters to provide a more thorough step-by-step guide through
the process. New chapters in this second edition include
"Integrating the Instruments of Power," "The Spectrum of Conflict
and Range of Military Operations," and "The Nuclear Weapons Triad
and Missile Defense." Military Strategy, Joint Operations, and
Airpower's contributing authors and editors include both military
practitioners and scholars of security studies, political science,
and history. In addition to being required reading for US Air Force
cadets, the book provides an essential overview of strategy and
practice for anyone interested in modern airpower.
Shocks and Rivalries in the Middle East and North Africa is the
first book to examine issue-driven antagonisms within groups of
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) states and their impact on
relations within the region. The volume also considers how shock
events, such as internal revolts and regional wars, can alter
interstate tensions and the trajectory of conflict. MENA has
experienced more internal rivalries than any other region, making a
detailed analysis vital to understanding the region's complex
political, cultural, and economic history. The state groupings
studied in this volume include Israel and Iran; Iran and Saudi
Arabia; Iran and Turkey; Iran, Iraq, and Syria; Egypt and Saudi
Arabia; and Algeria and Morocco. Essays are theoretically driven,
breaking the MENA region down into a collection of systems that
exemplify how state and nonstate actors interact around certain
issues. Through this approach, contributors shed rare light on the
origins, persistence, escalation, and resolution of MENA rivalries
and trace significant patterns of regional change. Shocks and
Rivalries in the Middle East and North Africa makes a major
contribution to scholarship on MENA antagonisms. It not only
addresses an understudied phenomenon in the international relations
of the MENA region, it also expands our knowledge of rivalry
dynamics in global politics.
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Regions, Power, and Conflict - Constrained Capabilities, Hierarchy, and Rivalry (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
William R. Thompson, Thomas J. Volgy, Paul Bezerra, Jacob Cramer, Kelly Marie Gordell, …
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The three main levels of analysis in international relations have
been the systemic, the national, and the individual. A fourth level
that falls between the systemic and the national is the region. It
is woefully underdeveloped in comparison to the attention afforded
the other three. Yet regions tend to be distinctive theaters for
international politics. Otherwise, we would not recognize that
Middle Eastern interstate politics somehow does not resemble Latin
American interstate politics or interstate politics in Southern
Africa (although once the Middle East and Southern Africa may have
seemed more similar in their mutual fixation with opposition to
domestic policies in Israel and South Africa, respectively). This
book, divided into three parts, first makes a case for studying
regional politics even though it must also be appreciated that
regional boundaries are also hazy and not always easy to pin down
empirically. The second part examines power distributions within
regions as an important entry point to studying regional
similarities and differences. Two emphases are stressed. One is
that regional power assessments need to be conditioned by
controlling for weak states which are more common in some regions
than they are in others. The other emphasis is on regional power
hierarchies. Some regions have strong regional hierarchies while
others do not. Regions with strong hierarchies operate much
differently from those without them in the sense that the former
are more pacific than the latter. The third part of the book
focuses on regional differences in terms of conflict behavior,
order preferences, rivalries, and rivalry termination.
Shocks and Rivalries in the Middle East and North Africa is the
first book to examine issue-driven antagonisms within groups of
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) states and their impact on
relations within the region. The volume also considers how shock
events, such as internal revolts and regional wars, can alter
interstate tensions and the trajectory of conflict. MENA has
experienced more internal rivalries than any other region, making a
detailed analysis vital to understanding the region's complex
political, cultural, and economic history. The state groupings
studied in this volume include Israel and Iran; Iran and Saudi
Arabia; Iran and Turkey; Iran, Iraq, and Syria; Egypt and Saudi
Arabia; and Algeria and Morocco. Essays are theoretically driven,
breaking the MENA region down into a collection of systems that
exemplify how state and nonstate actors interact around certain
issues. Through this approach, contributors shed rare light on the
origins, persistence, escalation, and resolution of MENA rivalries
and trace significant patterns of regional change. Shocks and
Rivalries in the Middle East and North Africa makes a major
contribution to scholarship on MENA antagonisms. It not only
addresses an understudied phenomenon in the international relations
of the MENA region, it also expands our knowledge of rivalry
dynamics in global politics.
An essential introduction to contemporary strategy at the
operational level of war, now in its second edition Military
Strategy, Joint Operations, and Airpower introduces contemporary
strategy at the operational level of war, particularly as it
relates to airpower. Developed as foundational reading for all US
Air Force Academy cadets, Air Force ROTC students, and Officer
Training School candidates, this intermediate textbook is designed
to close the gap between military theory and practice. It covers
strategic foundations; operational design and joint-service
operations; the air, space, and cyber capabilities that comprise
modern airpower; and contemporary challenges in the application of
strategy. In this second edition, each chapter has been updated and
revised, and several sections have been expanded. Part 2, "Military
Forces and the Joint Fight," now features separate chapters about
each service. Similarly, operational design is expanded from one to
four chapters to provide a more thorough step-by-step guide through
the process. New chapters in this second edition include
"Integrating the Instruments of Power," "The Spectrum of Conflict
and Range of Military Operations," and "The Nuclear Weapons Triad
and Missile Defense." Military Strategy, Joint Operations, and
Airpower's contributing authors and editors include both military
practitioners and scholars of security studies, political science,
and history. In addition to being required reading for US Air Force
cadets, the book provides an essential overview of strategy and
practice for anyone interested in modern airpower.
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