After Iraq: The Search for a Sustainable National Security Strategy
Carlisle, PA: U. S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 2009. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. Glued binding. xiii, [1], 83, [3] p. More
Carlisle, PA: U. S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 2009. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. Glued binding. xiii, [1], 83, [3] p. More
Carlisle, PA: U. S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute/Army War College Press, 2013. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. xi, [1], 67, [1] p. Endnotes. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, [1967,c1966]. 13 x 20 cm, 212, v.2 only of the 2-vol. set, illus., index, bookplate, shaken. More
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1988. 24 cm, 272, map, slight wear and soiling to DJ, small scuff in rear DJ. More
Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1987. First? Edition. First? Printing. 335, notes, index. More
New York: Blue Rider Press, 2012. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 417, [3] pages. Illustrations. Source Notes. Michael Mahon Hastings (January 28, 1980 – June 18, 2013) was an American journalist, author, contributing editor to Rolling Stone and reporter for BuzzFeed. He was raised in New York, Canada, and Vermont, and attended New York University. Hastings rose to prominence with his coverage of the Iraq War for Newsweek in the 2000s. After his fiancee Andrea Parhamovich was killed when her car was ambushed in Iraq, Hastings wrote his first book, I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story (2008), a memoir about his relationship with Parhamovich and the violent insurgency that took her life. He received the George Polk Award for "The Runaway General" (2010), a Rolling Stone profile of General Stanley McChrystal, commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in the Afghanistan war. The article documented the widespread contempt for civilian government officials by the general and his staff and ultimately resulted in McChrystal's resignation. Hastings followed up with The Operators (2012), a detailed book account of his month-long stay with McChrystal in Europe and Afghanistan. Hastings became a vocal critic of the Obama administration, Democratic Party and surveillance state during the investigation of reporters by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2013, referring to the restrictions on the freedom of the press by the Obama administration as a "war" on journalism. Hastings died in a fiery high-speed automobile crash on June 18, 2013, in Los Angeles, California. More
Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington DC: National Defense University Press, 2015. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xiv, 474 pages. Color maps. Tables. Figures (some with color). Notes. Annexes (includes Afghanistan and Iraq timelines). Cover has slight wear and soiling. This volume represents an early attempt at assessing the Long War, now in its 14th year. Forged in the fires of the 9/11 attacks, the war includes campaigns against al Qaeda, major conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and operations in the Horn of Africa, the Republic of the Philippines, and globally, in the air and on the sea. The authors herein treat only the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, the largest U.S. efforts. It is intended for future senior officers, their advisors, and other national security decision makers. By derivation, it is also a book for students in joint professional military education courses, which will qualify them to work in the field of strategy. While the book tends to focus on strategic decisions and developments of land wars among the people, it acknowledges that the status of the United States as a great power and the strength of its ground forces depend in large measure on the dominance of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force in their respective domains. More
Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1974. Reprint. Stiff boards. 24 cm. 217, (1) pages. Wraps (stiff card covers, nearly hardbound). 8 fold-out maps. Footnotes. Bibliographical Note. Slight wear and soiling to covers. Unconventional warfare has gained in importance along with the increase in range and destructiveness of weapons. It was a particularly potent factor in several theaters of operations during World War II, but in none did it play a more significant role than on the Eastern front during that conflict. There the guerrilla movement behind the Axis forces gained in importance as the Soviet Army withdrew deeper and deeper into its homeland, trading space for time until mobilization could be completed and winter act as an ally. If The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941-1944 is studied in connection with operational studies of the war on the east European front during World War II, it should prove to be of great value to students of that conflict. It should also prove of particular value to the Army staff and schools and colleges as a reference work in partisan warfare. More
Carlisle, PA: U. S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 2012. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. xxiv, 413, [1] p. Endnotes. Bibliography. This is a Strategic Studies Institute Book. More
Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2011. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 364 p. Notes. Index to quotations. Index. More
Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2011. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 355, [1] pages. Notes. Index to quotations. Index. Printed on acid-free paper. Haunting Legacy is must reading for anyone trying to understand the power of the past to influence war-and-peace decisions of the present, and of the future. In Haunting Legacy, the father-daughter journalist team of Marvin Kalb and Deborah Kalb presents a compelling, accessible, and hugely important history of presidential decisionmaking on one crucial issue: in light of the Vietnam debacle, under what circumstances should the United States go to war? Might America again be sucked into an unwinnable conflict, for example? Does a president always need congressional approval, or can the White House act on its own? More
Washington, DC: United States, Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2006. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xii, [2], 664 p. Illustrations. Charts. Notes. Note on Sources and Selected Bibliography. Index. More
Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College, 2010. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. ix, [1], 46 p. Illustrations. Endnotes. More
New York: Praeger, [1965]. Second Printing. 22 cm, 308, maps, index, front DJ flap price clipped, ink notation on front endpaper, DJ somewhat soiled, DJ edges worn and small tears. More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1965. First U. K. edition, presumed first printing. Hardcover. x, 148, [2] pages. Footnotes. A Chronology of Significant Actions. DJ has some wear, tears, soiling, and chips. The Pursuit of Justice was a book written by Robert F. Kennedy and published in 1964. The book consisted of 12 speeches (partially revised) delivered by Kennedy during his tenure as United States Attorney General Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), sometimes referred to by the initials RFK and occasionally Bobby, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. His tenure is best known for its advocacy for the civil rights movement, the fight against organized crime and the Mafia, and involvement in U.S. foreign policy related to Cuba. He was, like his brothers John and Edward, a prominent member of the Democratic Party and has come to be viewed by some historians as an icon of modern American liberalism. Theodore J. "Ted" Lowi (July 9, 1931 – February 17, 2017) was an American political scientist. He was the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions teaching in the Government Department at Cornell University. His area of research was the American government and public policy. He was a member of the core faculty of the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1989. Facsimile Edition. 24 cm, 82, wraps, illus., fold-out maps, some wear and soiling to covers. More
Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 1954. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 24 cm. vi, [2], 82,[2] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Fold-out maps. Chronology. Bibliographical not. Some wear and soiling to covers. Stamp and black cross-out marks to front cover. The purpose of this study is to describe briefly the German campaign against the guerrillas in the Balkans during the period of the European Axis occupation, from the end of hostilities against Greece and Yugoslavia in April 1941 to the capture of Belgrade by the Soviet forces and the Partisans in October 1944. The activities of Germany's Italian, Bulgarian, Croatians, and other allies, as well as the British, Soviet, and United States forces in the area, are treated only to the extent that they affected German operations. In sequence of time, this study is a continuation of Department of the Army Pamphlet 20-260, The German Campaigns in the Balkans which was published in 1953. The material for this study was obtained from German military records now in the custody of The Adjutant General, Department of the Army. In addition to these official records, monographs by former German officers who participated in these operations furnished considerable general information and were of assistance in supplementing the terse official reports of specific actions. More
New York: Random House, 1989. First Edition. First? Printing. Oversized, 191, wraps, profusely illus., maps, tables, reading list, index, covers worn, soiled, & creased. Commentary by William Shawcross. More
Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1984. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. [6] 132, [2] p. 10 page Information Sheet on the Report laid in. This copy was provided by Paul Sigmund to George Ball. More
Washington, DC: Institute for Policy Studies, 1981. First edition. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xi, 137 p. Footnotes. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1987. Reprint Edition. Trade paperback. vi, 250 pages. Wraps. Notes. Bibliography. Contributors. Covers somewhat worn and soiled. Michael T. Klare is a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies, whose department is located at Hampshire College, defense correspondent of The Nation magazine and author of Resource Wars and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency (Metropolitan). Klare also teaches at Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Klare serves on the board of directors of the Arms Control Association. Peter Kornbluh (born 1956) is the director of the National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project and Cuba Documentation Project. He played a large role in the campaign to declassify government documents, via the Freedom of Information Act, relating to the history of the U.S. government's support for the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. He is the author of several books, most recently The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability. Kornbluh won a 1990 James Aronson Award honorable mention for writing on Central America in The New Yorker. The first book to take on the hottest military/foreign policy issue of the post-Irangate eighties--low-intensity warfare. The issues in this book would be the key to any foreign policy/defense debate in 1988. Among the contributor was Richard J. Barnet. Richard Jackson Barnet (May 7, 1929 – December 23, 2004) was an American scholar-activist who co-founded the Institute for Policy Studies. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1988. First Edition. 250, notes, bibliography, DJ somewhat worn and soiled, publisher's ephemera laid in. More
Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2004. Trade paperback. 375 p. Tables. Chronology. Index. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1988. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiii, 332, [1] p. Sources and Notes. Index. More
Washington DC: The Institute of World Politics Press, 2013. Presumed First Edition, First printing (but note printing date of 2015 on last page). Trade paperback. xv, [1], 291, [1] pages. Appendixes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Rear cover creased. Some sticker residue on back cover. Foreword by Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn. Human Terrain Teams (HTTs) are five- to nine-person teams deployed by the Human Terrain System (HTS) to support field commanders by filling their cultural knowledge gap in the current operating environment and providing cultural interpretations of events occurring within their area of operations. The team is composed of individuals with social science and operational backgrounds that are deployed with tactical and operational military units to assist in bringing knowledge about the local population into a coherent analytic framework and build relationships with the local power-brokers in order to provide advice and opportunities to Commanders and staffs in the field. Human Terrain comprises the entire spectrum of society and culture. This should be the focus of the HTA’s interpretation. More