Warfare & Defence

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...

Two separate but closely related issues confront Congress each time the President introduces armed forces into a situation abroad that conceivably ...

This book describes some of the powerful metaphors that have developed over the past two decades about the workings of our minds including cognitiv...

This book presents current research in the psychology of war. Topics discussed in this compilation include psychosocial processes of a group of chi...

Federal law bars aliens residing without authorisation in the United States from most federal benefits; however, there is a widely held perception ...