Warfare & defence books

The way we organize our defense establishment is a crucial part of our national strategy, directly affecting our...  Read More >>

This manuscript analyzes the failure of Soviet air and ground forces to defeat the Afghan mujahideen during the...  Read More >>

This study analyzes the career of General Earle Everard ""Pat"" Partridge, USAF, with a fo-cus on the airpower lessons...  Read More >>

The Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA) Loop ideas of Air Force Colonel John Boyd have impacted the Department of Defense...  Read More >>

With long-standing, historic culture differences, legal restrictions, and different functional chains of command,...  Read More >>

Since 9/11 many articles have been written, studies undertaken and recommendations made in an effort to repair America's...  Read More >>

This HTML-based tutorial provides a comprehensive and in-depth program of instruction on key Army concepts for the...  Read More >>

China is one of the major actors in Asia with which the United States will have to deal in the next few decades....  Read More >>

America has been in space for over 40 years, yet there seems to be little common understanding of how to integrate...  Read More >>

This paper analyzes Operation SEALORDS, the US Navy's integrated riverine interdiction and pacification effort in...  Read More >>

Network centric warfare is a key enabler to present day military operations. Link 16, a tactical data link, is one...  Read More >>

The Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) is the United States (US) Air Force's (AF) intermediate professional military...  Read More >>

In January 2007, the Chinese successfully tested an anti-satellite (ASAT) missile that threatened US space assets...  Read More >>

U.S. military forces have repeatedly been expected to perform in peacekeeping, nationbuilding and other non-kinetic...  Read More >>

Regionally Integrated Air and Missile Defense between the United States and its Gulf Cooperation Council allies...  Read More >>

Post-cold war, post-9/11, radically evolving threats, emerging technologies, the information explosion, and a seemingly...  Read More >>

The purpose of this paper is to determine if there were indicators of the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq on 2 August...  Read More >>

This paper proposes a possible ISR strategy for USEUCOM for the time-frame of FY10-15, by utilizing existing and...  Read More >>

In an effort to prevent Iraq from sliding further into civil conflict, one of President Bush's most significant...  Read More >>

""This paper examines diversity as it relates to countering asymmetric security threats. It views diversity as more...  Read More >>

Department of Defense (DOD) standard 8320.02 establishes the need for all subordinate organizations to share information...  Read More >>

Frustration over Saddam's Hussein's longevity can reinforce the theory that the Gulf War ceasefire was premature....  Read More >>

Since World War II, the U.S. has been involved in several limited conflicts, against smaller, far less militarily...  Read More >>

This paper will provide background information on how CSAR forces are currently utilized in GWOT and highlight the...  Read More >>

In the summer of 1995 the Air Force chief of staff tasked Air University to do a year-long study, 2025, to ""generate...  Read More >>