Warfare & Defence

This book discusses research on civil wars. Chapter One focuses on conceptual and methodological grounding of the synergetic approach to mental imm...

This is a comprehensive list of all the significant battles from ancient time through 1904.

The Department of Defense (DOD) acquires goods and services from contractors, federal arsenals, and shipyards to support military operations. Acqui...

Shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Congress enacted the USA PATRIOT Act, in part, to provide enhanced investigative tools and to assist in t...

This book reviews and discusses President Obama''''s Open Government Initiative and the Open Government Directive, as well as the three central ten...

On December 27, 2008, Israel launched a major military campaign dubbed Operation Cast Lead against the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas ...

This book examines the brutal attack at Fort Hood on November 5th, 2009, allegedly perpetrated by U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, which has rais...

Cargo containers could be used to transport unlawful cargo, including weapons of mass destruction, illicit arms, stowaways, and illegal narcotics i...

The appointment of a Supreme Court Justice is an event of major significance in American politics. Each appointment is of consequence because of th...

Iraq''''s neighbours have influenced events in Iraq since the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003, and developments in Iraq have had politica...

The post-World War II U.S.-Japan alliance has long been an anchor of the U.S. security role in East Asia. The alliance facilitates the forward depl...

Combating corruption is a key U.S. value and goal, due to its corrosive effects on the rule of law, economic development, and democratic principles...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vivid portrait of one of the most powerful leaders in Israels first decades of statehood Instantly rec...

Because American Samoa does not have a federal court like the CNMI, Guam or USVI, matters of federal law arising in American Samoa have generally b...

The U.S. Coast Guard is one of the five Armed Forces of the United States and the only military organisation within the Department of Homeland Secu...

The U.S. insular areas of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and three Freely Ass...

Increasingly, the armed forces have a vision of security as emphasising hard rather than soft security, a view which has come to the forefront in M...

This book discusses and assesses the War Powers Resolution and its application since enactment in 1973, providing detailed background on various ca...

It is commonly believed that Great Transformation -- the process of post-socialist changes leading from the system of more or less reformed central...

At this moment of economic crisis and uncertainty, the USA is being tested. This book presents a preliminary analysis of President Obama''''s budge...

This book examines the current political, economic, security, and U.S. interest issues facing Russia today. Although Russia may not be as central t...

This book presents and discusses current research in the study of a variety of economic, political and social issues of Russia, as well as U.S. inv...

This book focuses on the features and structure of the EU''''s food chain, food industry developments, introduction of new technologies, institutio...

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

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

The final text of the proposed U.S.-Panama FTA incorporates specific amendments on key issues at the behest of congressional leadership. The most s...

The goal of disability insurance is to replace a portion of a worker''''s income should illness or disability prevent him or her from working. Indi...

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost the United States in many ways. For the American Armed Forces, the human toll has been profound: as of 2...

One of the greatest threats facing the world today is the increasing proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. Non-proli...

In September 1999, Russia''''s then-Premier Vladimir Putin ordered military, police, and security forces to enter the breakaway Chechnya region, re...

This book provides the results of a review, which was initiated at the request of the Army Inspector General, of actions taken by the chain of comm...