Warfare & Defence

Dan Showalter was Speaker Pro Tem of the California State Assembly at the outbreak of the Civil War and the exemplar of treason in the Far West ...

The 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, was one of the most innovative and successful counter-insurgency units in modern history. Formed a...

When Heloise Goodley ditched her City job and decided to attend officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, she had no prior military...

The Bronze Age, so named because of the technological advances in metalworking and countless innovations in the manufacture and design of tools and...

Highly enriched uranium (HEU) is used for two major civilian purposes: as fuel for research reactors and as targets for medical isotope production....

Assessment of Supercritical Water Oxidation System Testing for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant reviews and evaluates the resu...

In early February of 1968, at the beginning of the Tet Offensive, Private First Class Gregory V. Short arrived in Vietnam as an eighteen-year-old U...

Women everywhere have long struggled for recognition as equal, productive members of society, worthy of taking part in the political process. These...

The idea of African unity, the Pan-African Movement, the problems of nation building in Africa, and the history of the African Diaspora have attrac...

This book focuses on the rapid changes occurring in the Caucasus Region, which has been shown by recent events to be one of the world''''s newest a...

This book focuses on the rapid changes occurring in the Caucasus Region, which has been shown by recent events to be one of the world''''s newest a...

Civilians in Africa''''s conflict zones, particularly women and children, are often vulnerable to sexual violence, including rape, mutilation and s...

National Security Letters (NSL) are roughly comparable to administrative subpoenas. Intelligence agencies issue them for intelligence gathering pur...

Many foreign affairs experts believe that the international system is undergoing a momentous transition affecting its very nature. At the same time...

The nation''''s health, wealth and security rely on the production and distribution of certain goods and services. The array of physical assets, fu...

Some employers maintain that they continue to need the best and the brightest workers, regardless of their country of birth, to remain competitiv...

This book explores the historical background and political and strategic developments in both Bangladesh and Burma. Bangladesh is a densely populat...

Over the past two decades of conflict, women have served with valor and continue to serve on combat aircraft, naval vessels, and in support of grou...

A booming economy, high population, land-locked location, remote separated and poorly accessible rural areas, large reserves of oil, large mining s...

Suicidal behaviour is an important issue in the military. There are some specific problems arising in the military surrounding. An army is a closed...

The government of the People''''s Republic of China (PRC) is a decade into a sweeping military modernisation program that has fundamentally transfo...

This book discusses the opportunities as well as problems facing the proposed Union Government of Africa from diverse disciplines. The central focu...

This book examines the economic crisis and vulnerability with reference to certain countries in East Asia. The main reason that this book focuses o...

In the Autumn of 2011, the Obama Administration issued a series of announcements indicating that the United States would be expanding and intensify...

This book presents and discusses information on the contemporary politics and economics of Asia. The coverage is intended to deal with Asia, its po...

This book presents and discusses important political and economic changes in North America. Topics discussed herein include the federal government ...

This book presents and discusses contemporary political and economic studies of all aspects of the European Union. In addition, the book also publi...

This book gathers and presents significant research from Georgian authors in all areas of science, technology, and medicine. Topics discussed in th...

This book explores Hong Kong today and since the People''''s Republic of China (China) resumed sovereignty over Hong Kong on July 1, 1997, an event...

This book presents and discusses the financial crisis in Europe, as well as the various security issues these nations face because of this global c...

On February 1, 2010, the Defense Department released a report on the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, a legislatively mandated assessment of defenc...

Aliens may be removed from the United States for a variety of reasons, such as having entered the country unlawfully, overstaying a visa, or commit...

This book includes CRS Reports on the background and issues of conventional prompt global strike and long-rage ballistic missiles, the US Army Weap...

Chapter 1 analyses state-to-state arms sales in the Middle East with a particular focus on U.S. transfers. On 3 January 2019, Senator Marco Rubio a...