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Besieged examines the most important sieges in history-the actions
and motivations of attackers and defenders along with conditions
inside and outside the city walls. From Joshua's assault on Jericho
in the 15th century B.C. to the Russian attack on the Chechen
capital of Grozny at the end of the 20th century, siege warfare has
been a recurring theme in the human story. Again and again,
engineers have built supposedly impregnable fortifications, only to
see them overrun by an ingenious enemy. In Besieged, military
historian Paul F. Davis analyzes the most crucial sieges in world
history, such as the siege of Leningrad, which weakened the Nazi
forces in World War II, and that of the Alamo, which culminated in
independence for Texas. He also describes important sieges
unfamiliar to most readers, such as that of Arcot, where a British
victory halted the French takeover of southern India. In engaging,
accessible language, Davis tracks the invention of new
technologies, analyzes innovative tactics, and tells the human
story of conditions both inside and outside the city walls.
Examines 100 great sieges, from Jericho in 1405 B.C. to Grozny in
1997 Establishes the historical background of each siege, describes
the siege itself in both military and human terms, and analyzes the
results Provides more than 75 maps as well as tactical diagrams,
archival photographs, and artworks Includes a glossary explaining
unfamiliar military terms, from abatis to zig-zags
Surveys the one hundred most decisive battles in world history from the Battle of Megiddo in 1469 B.C. to Desert Storm, 1991.
This is a paperback buy-in of a cloth edition originally published in 2001 by ABC-CLIO at $85.00. From Joshua's attack on Jericho in the fifteenth century B.C. to the Russian attack on the Chechan capital of Grozny at the end of the twentieth century, Besieged covers the most important sieges around the world and throughout history. This fascinating volume examines the actions of both attackers and defenders, exploring the motivations of both, as well as surveying technical and tactical innovations and the condition both inside besieged positions and in the besiegers' ranks.
The United States Air Force's Center for Strategy and Technology
was established at the Air War College in 1996. Its purpose is to
engage in long-term strategic thinking about technology and its
implications for United States national security. The Center (CSAT)
focuses on education, research, and publications that support the
integration of technology into national strategy and policy. This
document is one of these publications.
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Title: Pyrna: a Commune; or, Under the Ice. By E. J.
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Government organizations have put substantial effort into detecting
and thwarting terrorist and insurgent attacks by observing
suspicious behaviors of individuals at transportation checkpoints
and elsewhere. This report reviews the scientific literature
relating to observable, individual-level behavioral indicators that
might, along with other information, help detect potential violent
attacks.
This book offers a description of a methodology and a prototype
tool, Building Blocks To Composite Options Tool (BCOT), for
identifying investment options for defense capability areas. It
ensures that a broad range of options is considered initially, then
uses a screening technique to narrow the range to those meriting
more-extensive assessment in a fuller portfolio-analysis framework.
BCOT extends classic economics and operations-research techniques
and suggests pragmatic approximations, particularly in
capabilities-based planning.
An overview of higher-level decision making and modern methods to
improve decision support. A selective review of modern decision
science and implications for decision-support systems. The study
suggests ways to synthesize lessons from research on heuristics and
biases with those from "naturalistic research." It also discusses
modern tools, such as increasingly realistic simulations,
multiresolution modeling, and exploratory analysis, which can
assist decisionmakers in choosing strategies that are flexible,
adaptive, and robust.
Making future DoD models and simulations more composable; A
discussion of actions the Department of Defense could take to
improve the composability of its future models and simulations,
i.e., the ability to select and assemble components in various
combinations to satisfy specific user requirements. Factors that
determine what can be composed and the expense and risk of
composing various components are examined, and suggestions are
presented on both policies and investments that would enhance
prospects for composability.
A metamodel approximates the behavior of a more complex model. A
common and superficially attractive way to develop a metamodel is
to generate large-model data and use off-the-shelf statistical
methods without attempting to understand the model's internal
workings. This report describes research illuminating why it can be
important to improve the quality of metamodels by using even modest
phenomenological knowledge to help structure them. The work helps
to understand multiresolution, multiperspective modeling.
It may not be possible to deter fanatical terrorists, but members
of terrorist systems may be amenable to influence. The U.S.
counterterrorism strategy should therefore include political
warfare, placing at risk things the terrorists hold dear, a
credible threat of force against states or groups that support
acquisition of weapons of mass destruction, and maintaining
cooperation with other nations engaged in the war on terror, while
also preserving core American values. (JDL)
Provides a definition of capabilities-based planning, puts it in
the larger context of defense activities generally, and sketches an
analytic architecture for carrying it out. Capabilities-based
planning has become a central theme of defense planning. It is
defined in broad terms in the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review, but
opinions differ about its details and how to implement it. This
book reviews and extends ideas developed over the last decade
regarding capabilities-based planning. It puts capabilities-based
planning in the larger context of defense activities generally,
sketches an analytic architecture for carrying it out, and offers
recommendations about how to proceed, including a suggested
architecture that emphasizes mission-level work and such concepts
as mission-system analysis, exploratory analysis, and hierarchical
portfolio methods for integration and tradeoffs in an economical
framework. Capabilities-based planning is related to the objective
of transforming U.S. forces to deal effectively with the changes
taking place in military affairs. The book also emphasizes that the
new paradigm of capabilities-based planning is particularly apt
given the objective of transforming U.S. forces to deal effectively
with the changes taking place in military affairs.
This study describes the motivation for multiresolution modeling
within a single model or a family of models.
This paper develops and examines a wide range of strategic options
for the defense program and posture.
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