Unthinkable: Iran, the bomb, and American strategy

How close are we to a nuclear Iran? What does it mean for American foreign policy? How did we get to this point? And what do we do now? ​In Unthinkable, Kenneth Pollack, a former CIA analyst with twenty-five years of experience working on the Middle East, explores America's intractable problem with Iran, Tehran's pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability, and the prolonged clash that led us…

Tell me how this ends: General David Petraeus and the search for a way out of…

Tell Me How This Ends provides an in-depth examination of General David Petraeus and his central role in reshaping U.S. military strategy during the Iraq War. Linda Robinson offers a detailed narrative of the development and implementation of the 2007 “surge,” exploring the challenges, political dynamics, and military operations that aimed to stabilize Iraq during one of its most turbulent …

Communist revolutionary warfare: From the Vietminh to the Viet Cong

Communist Revolutionary Warfare: From the Vietminh to the Viet Cong by George K. Tanham is a foundational study on the origins, development, and strategic doctrine of communist insurgency in Vietnam. The book analyzes how revolutionary warfare evolved from the Viet Minh movement against French colonial rule into the Viet Cong’s insurgency against South Vietnam and U.S. involvement. Tanham exp…

On War

Carl von Clausewitz's classic work, On War, remains one of the most influential texts in military theory and international relations. It explains the nature of war as the continuation of politics through violent means, emphasizing the relationship between strategy, policy, and social conditions. This edition, edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret, provides a modern translation…

Indira Gandhi and her power game

Indira Gandhi and Her Power Game by Janardan Thakur offers a critical analysis of Indira Gandhi’s political career, focusing on her style of governance, power maneuvers, and the strategies she employed to consolidate strength within the Indian National Congress and the Indian government. Thakur examines her rise to power, her methods of political control, her relationships with party insiders…

Deterrence in the second nuclear age

Keith Payne begins by asking, "Did we really learn how to deter predictably and reliably during the Cold War?" He answers cautiously in the negative, pointing out that we know only that our policies toward the Soviet Union did not fail. What we can be more certain of, in Payne's view, is that such policies will almost assuredly fail in the Second Nuclear Age―a period in which direct nuclear t…

Beating the street

In this book, newly revised and updated for the paperback edition, Peter Lynch shows you how you can become an expert in a company and how you can build a profitable investment portfolio, based on your own experience and insight and on straightforward do-it-your-self research.

Red star over the Pacific: China's rise and the challenge to U.S maritime str…

Combining Yoshihara's close knowledge of Asia and an ability to cap Chinese-language sources with Holmes' naval combat experience and expertise in sea power theory, both authors are able to assess how the rise of Chinese sea power will affect U.S maritime strategy in Asia. They argue that China is laying in the groundwork for a sustained challenge to American primacy in maritime Asia. To defend…

Breaking with Moscow

It is not my purpose in this memoir to instill feelings of hostility in Americans toward the Soviet people, or to complicate in any way efforts to promote peace. The world has enought madmen trying to do that.

Strategies for Asia Pacific

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ISBN/ISSN

0333653181

Deskripsi Fisik

xix, 315 Halaman;25 cm.

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No. Panggil

320.954 Las s