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Author | : Bruce D. Porter |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 663 |
Release | : 2002-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439105480 |
Download War and the Rise of the State Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
States make war, but war also makes states. As Publishers Weekly notes, “Porter, a political scientist at Brigham Young University, demonstrates that wars have been catalysts for increasing the size and power of Western governments since the Renaissance. The state’s monopoly of effective violence has diminished not only individual rights and liberties, but also the ability of local communities and private associates to challenge the centralization of authority. Porter’s originality lies in his thesis that war, breaking down barriers of class, gender, ethnicity, and ideology, also contributes to meritocracy, mobility, and, above all, democratization. Porter also posits the emergence of the “Scientific Warfare State,” a political system in which advanced technology would render obsolete mass participation in war. This provocative study merits wide circulation and serious discussion.”
Author | : Shane Harris |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0544251792 |
Download @WAR Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An investigation into how the Pentagon, NSA, and other government agencies are uniting with corporations to fight in cyberspace, the next great theater of war.
Author | : Ronald Schaffer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 0195049047 |
Download America in the Great War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Contains excerpts from 3 key legislative acts.
Author | : Carl von Clausewitz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Military art and science |
ISBN | : |
Download On War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Peter Turchin |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780452288195 |
Download War and Peace and War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Argues that the key to the formation of an empire lies in a society's capacity for collective action, resulting from people banding together to confront a common enemy, and describing how the growth of empires leads to a growing dichotomy between rich and poor, increasing conflict instead of cooperation, and inevitable dissolution. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Author | : Trevor Sailsbury |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2015-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473822181 |
Download The Rise of Hitler Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1945, amidst the ruins of a bomb-damaged German home a tattered book, Deutschland Erwache, was recovered as a souvenir by a British soldier. This rare and invaluable primary resource now forms the basis of The Rise of Hitler Illustrated, which is a photographic record of Hitlers' rise to power from when he was born in 1889, as he took over the hearts and minds of the German people, and his eventual arrival at the top.??The original book is typical of the propaganda of the time, with the obvious non-critical acceptance of everything that Adolf Hitler was and what he stood for. It attempts to present him as a peaceloving man, who wanted nothing other than quiet in his 'beloved Alps', who dearly loved children and was kind to all. But as we all know, the truth was completely different. He was a man who, despite his unbounded evilness, was able to assert limitless power over a nation before creating maximum misery for millions.??When found, the original book was divest of its cover and all the worse for wear, but Trevor Salisbury has gone to every effort to salvage some of the images, the result a fresh and new perspective that sheds light on Hitler's control of Germany. It is a welcome addition to Pen & Sword's highly acclaimed Images of War series.
Author | : Hannsjoachim Wolfgang Koch |
Publisher | : Crescent |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Rise of Modern Warfare, from the Age of Mercenaries Through Napoleon Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Neta C. Crawford |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2022-10-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0262371928 |
Download The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How the Pentagon became the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter and why it’s not too late to break the link between national security and fossil fuel consumption. The military has for years (unlike many politicians) acknowledged that climate change is real, creating conditions so extreme that some military officials fear future climate wars. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Defense—military forces and DOD agencies—is the largest single energy consumer in the United States and the world’s largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter. In this eye-opening book, Neta Crawford traces the U.S. military’s growing consumption of energy and calls for a reconceptualization of foreign policy and military doctrine. Only such a rethinking, she argues, will break the link between national security and fossil fuels. The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War shows how the U.S. economy and military together have created a deep and long-term cycle of economic growth, fossil fuel use, and dependency. This cycle has shaped U.S. military doctrine and, over the past fifty years, has driven the mission to protect access to Persian Gulf oil. Crawford shows that even as the U.S. military acknowledged and adapted to human-caused climate change, it resisted reporting its own greenhouse gas emissions. Examining the idea of climate change as a “threat multiplier” in national security, she argues that the United States faces more risk from climate change than from lost access to Persian Gulf oil—or from most military conflicts. The most effective way to cut military emissions, Crawford suggests provocatively, is to rethink U.S. grand strategy, which would enable the United States to reduce the size and operations of the military.
Author | : James Mann |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2004-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780143034896 |
Download Rise of the Vulcans Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When George W. Bush campaigned for the White House, he was such a novice in foreign policy that he couldn't name the president of Pakistan and momentarily suggested he thought the Taliban was a rock-and-roll band. But he relied upon a group called the Vulcans—an inner circle of advisers with a long, shared experience in government, dating back to the Nixon, Ford, Reagan and first Bush administrations. After returning to power in 2001, the Vulcans were widely expected to restore U.S. foreign policy to what it had been under George H. W. Bush and previous Republican administrations. Instead, the Vulcans put America on an entirely new and different course, adopting a far-reaching set of ideas that changed the world and America's role in it. Rise of the Vulcans is nothing less than a detailed, incisive thirty-five-year history of the top six members of the Vulcans—Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, and Condoleezza Rice—and the era of American dominance they represent. It is the story of the lives, ideas and careers of Bush's war cabinet—the group of Washington insiders who took charge of America's response to September 11 and led the nation into its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Separately, each of these stories sheds astonishing light not only on the formative influences that brought these nascent leaders from obscurity to the pinnacle of power, but also on the experiences, conflicts and competitions that prefigured their actions on the present world stage. Taken together, the individuals in this book represent a unique generation in American history—a generation that might be compared to the "wise men" who shaped American policy after World War II or the "best and brightest" who prosecuted the war in Vietnam. Over the past three decades, since the time of Vietnam, these individuals have gradually led the way in shaping a new vision of an unchallengeable America seeking to dominate the globe through its military power.
Author | : Geoffrey Perret |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download A Country Made by War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the Revolution to Vietnam-the story of America's rise to power.