Warfare & defence books

This study analyzes and defines tactical and operational depth. Simply stated, tactical depth is defined as the...  Read More >>

On September 11th 2001, Al-Qaeda used the principles of fourth generation warfare (4GW) to achieve strategic effects...  Read More >>

While the involvement of the United States in counterinsurgency has a long history, it had faded in importance in...  Read More >>

This study explores how the United States Air Force negotiates the problem of publicly communicating on behalf of...  Read More >>

This study discusses the principles of war in connection with a detailed narrative of the events of the battle of...  Read More >>

The United States military has conducted counterinsurgency campaigns against violent Islamic extremists for the...  Read More >>

This monograph examines the feasibility of cross-attaching heavy and light forces for the conduct of offensive desert...  Read More >>

This study examines the ability of the current Unified Command System to provide unity of command and thereby obtain...  Read More >>

Introduction by the author: ""Like many book projects this one took a different direction then originally intended....  Read More >>

The Department of Defense's Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution process provides the foundation for integrating...  Read More >>

This paper addresses the issue of whether the use of tactical nuclear weapons in a war in Europe will bring about...  Read More >>

This study seeks to determine how to implement control measures and airspace deconfliction in the future nonlinear...  Read More >>

The Naval War College Review was established in 1948 and is a forum for discussion of public policy matters of interest...  Read More >>

In January 2005, during an interview with the Washington Times on the war in Iraq and Army transformation, President...  Read More >>

The Naval War College Review was established in 1948 and is a forum for discussion of public policy matters of interest...  Read More >>

The Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) is National Defense University's (NDU's) dedicated research...  Read More >>

As the United States military faces budgetary and congressional mandates to become more jointly oriented, the services...  Read More >>

This seventh publication in the Historical Analysis Series addresses the American role in the Philippine Hukbalahap...  Read More >>

This paper examines the conduct of continuous operations from the theoretical, historical and doctrinal perspective....  Read More >>

In preparation for this study, the plan called for a study on the ground, by a group of selected American and German...  Read More >>

On 19 October 1962, three days after he learned that the Soviet Union was positioning offensive ballistic missiles...  Read More >>

This study examines tactical deception capabilities in the U.S. Army. The research question asks, ""what should...  Read More >>

This monograph asserts that DoD should establish a Unified Combatant Command (COCOM)-level USLOGCOM. DoD should...  Read More >>

Der Krieg und seine Mittel (The War and its Means) by Wilhelm RÃ1/4stow, published in 1855, provides a detailed...  Read More >>

This study evaluates the potential for non-lethal weapons to become viable tools for the air support of ground forces...  Read More >>