Warfare & defence books

Base realignment was thought to be a method by which to generate future savings, but the approach of simply transferring...  Read More >>

During the Vietnam War and the years following, there has been a contentious debate regarding the nature of the...  Read More >>

This study offers a broad conceptual and operational framework for a prompt global strike capability. It begins...  Read More >>

Operation FORTITUDE, the D-Day deception plan, was a near perfect plan used by the Allies during World War II to...  Read More >>

The purpose of this work is first, to seek out and record events in the history of military nursing that influenced...  Read More >>

To ensure information superiority for warfighters in the 21st century, the Air Force needs to develop and implement...  Read More >>

Facial recognition technology will create the capability to provide positive identification of persons in a battlefield...  Read More >>

Modernization is a critical component of the current transformation effort within the Department of Defense (DoD)...  Read More >>

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the role of centralized execution in air power doctrine. However, research...  Read More >>

Throughout its history, the Air Force has experienced a growth in the diversity of the jobs it has been asked to...  Read More >>

After World War II the United States Congress wrote laws to prohibit homosexuals from openly serving in the military....  Read More >>

This paper examines the affects of an evolved National Security Strategy to meet the demands of a New World order...  Read More >>

Despite its preeminent position in just war tradition, the concept of proportionality is not well understood by...  Read More >>

Many lessons from the Multinational Force and Observer (MFO) mission to the Sinai and the Multinational Force II...  Read More >>

The purpose of this paper is to examine the US security strategy in Northeast Asia in the post-Korean Armistice...  Read More >>

This study examines the links between science, philosophy and military theory. The author presents two cases studies...  Read More >>

The role played by nonstrategic nuclear forces in the cold war logic of extended deterrence is changing dramatically,...  Read More >>

On 7 August 1998, Al Qaeda attacked almost simultaneously U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania...  Read More >>

This Air University research paper is an examination of the Proliferation Security Initiative. Through extensive...  Read More >>

On 23 February 2004, the Acting Secretary of the Army Les Aspin and the Chief of Staff of the Army General Peter...  Read More >>

This monograph is a theoretical and historical discussion of the culminating point. Initially, the author discusses...  Read More >>

In the last few years, notions like 'asymmetric warfare, ' and, more recently, 'hybrid warfare' have become as common...  Read More >>

This study examines various expeditionary airfield operations in an attempt to discern those problems that have...  Read More >>

Direct Energy weapons can exist on the battlefield of today. Yet, the warfighter needs to know what Probability...  Read More >>

The United States Air Force (USAF) will face several difficult choices as it procures unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)...  Read More >>