Escalation and Intrawar Deterrence During Limited Wars in the Middle East
Carlisle, PA: U. S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 2009. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. xiii, [1], 112, [2] p. Endnotes. More
Carlisle, PA: U. S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 2009. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. xiii, [1], 112, [2] p. Endnotes. More
London: The Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, 1973. Wraps. xx, 100 pages. Illustrations. More
New York: Praeger Publishers, [1972]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 175, illus., few library markings, some pages have paperclip impressions, stamp and ink notation to front endpaper. More
New York: Theodor Herzl Foundation, 1968. 26 cm, 80, wraps, illus., some wear and soiling to covers, ink notation on front cover. More
Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2000. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Library binding. vi, 325, [1] p. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. First American Edition [stated]. Presumed first Printing. Hardcover. xxii, 198, [4] pages. Chapter Notes. Upper corner of fep snipped off. Pencil erasure on half-title page. DJ has some wear and soiling. This volume includes the text of what has originally been intended as the Dimbleby Lecture, 1981. Owing to the withdrawal of the BBC's invitation, it was delivered in Worchester on 26 November 1981. This work reveals the author's rare ability to look at all of the military and political arguments being put forward by those to urge increased armaments, and to attack them in their own terms. Thompson links the campaign for peace with the struggle for freedom in Poland and elsewhere. This book is both an informative polemic and a survey of the broader historical issues. More
Ongar, Essex, England, United Kingdom: Linewrights Ltd., 1990. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. The format is approximately 8.25 inches by 11,75 inches. 40 pages, plus covers. Illustrations (some in color). Few airplanes have remained in active service as long as the B-52, which is slated to stay in operation through the turn of the century. Originally designed as a long-range nuclear bomber, the B-52 has seen service in Vietnam and the Gulf War, where its long range and massive bomb load were complemented by the ability to accommodate air-launched missiles. The authors provide several accounts from B-52 pilots and coverage of this magnificent airplane's design and continuing development. Two hunted photographs help document the Stratofortress' distinguished career. More
Carlisle, PA: United States, Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 2013. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. xi, [1], 64, [4] p. This is one of The Letort Papers. Figures. Endnotes. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1982. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm, 428, [4] pages. Illustrations. Appendix I: Map of Nuclear Weapons Locations in the United States. Appendix II: Top U.S. Defense Contractors. Working Vocabulary. Further Reading. Index. About the Authors. Erasure on front endpaper. Tobias is well known in academic and popular circles as a feminist and for her books, Women, Militarism and War and Faces of Feminism: An Activist's Reflections on the Women's Movement. Supported by the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Research Corporation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, her work has made her a sought-after consultant on college and university curricula, general education, post-baccalaureate alternatives, professional master's in science and mathematics, and women's studies. Tobias is a popular speaker on all these topics. Educated in history and literature at Harvard/Radcliffe, Tobias earned a master's in history and an M.Phil at Columbia University. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xii, 292 pages. Appendix. Index. Footnotes. A few ink marks and comments noted on the half-title and title pages only. This is one of Princeton's International History and Politics series. Marc Trachtenberg (born February 9, 1946)[1] is a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974 and taught for many years for the history department at the University of Pennsylvania before coming to UCLA. He is the author of the following books : Reparation in World Politics: France and European Economic Diplomacy, 1916-1923 (Columbia University Press, 1980), A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963 (Princeton University Press, 1999), History and Strategy (Princeton University Press, 1991) and The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method (Princeton University Press, 2006). Trachtenberg was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1966–1967, a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983–1984, a German Marshall Fund Fellow in 1994–1995, and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Center for Science and International Affairs in 1986–1987. In 2000 he received the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize He maintains a website dedicated to Cold War research. More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 211, some wear and soiling to DJ, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Washington DC: National Defense University Press, 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Wraps. v, [1], 23, [3] pages. Notes. The nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union was a prominent feature of the Cold War. A lesser known but equally dangerous element of the superpower competition involved biological weapons (BW), living microorganisms that cause fatal or incapacitating diseases in humans, animals, or plants. By the late 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union had both acquired advanced BW capabilities. The U.S. biological weapons complex, operated by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps, consisted of a research and development laboratory at Fort Detrick in Maryland, an open-air testing site at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, and a production facility at Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas that manufactured biological warfare agents and loaded them into bomblets, bombs, and spray tanks. The U.S. BW arsenal comprised two types of lethal antipersonnel agents; three types of incapacitating agents; and two types of anticrop weapons). The Army also developed two toxins, highly poisonous chemicals produced by bacteria and other living organisms, including a lethal agent and an incapacitating agent. The stockpile of lethal biological weapons served as an in-kind deterrent against enemy biological attack and, if deterrence were to fail, provided a retaliatory capability when authorized by the President. The United States also reserved the option of first use of incapacitating biological weapons and anticrop agents, with Presidential authorization. More
Washington DC: National Defense University Press, 2011. First Printing [Stated]. Wraps. v, [1], 27,[3] pages. Notes. On October 1, 1990, two months after Iraq’s surprise invasion and annexation of Kuwait had put the United States and other members of the international community on a collision course with the Saddam Hussein regime, President George H.W. Bush spoke to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York. He described Iraq’s brutal aggression against its neighbor as “a throwback to another era, a dark relic from a dark time.” Noting that Saddam Hussein had waged a “genocidal poison gas war” against Iraq’s restive Kurdish minority during the 1980s, President Bush hinted that if it ultimately proved necessary to liberate Kuwait by force, the United States and its allies could face Iraqi attacks with chemical weapons—highly toxic chemicals designed to incapacitate or kill. This looming threat made it all the more important to conclude the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), a multilateral treaty banning the development, production, stockpiling, and use of chemical arms. Both as Vice President under Ronald Reagan and as President himself, Bush had played a leading role in the negotiation of the CWC, and he was now determined to make it a reality. More
Princeton, NJ: Center of Internat'l Studies, 1963. 28 cm, 76, wraps, cover torn at top of spine, pencil erasure residue on title page. More
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, c1997. Hardcover. 24 cm, 163 pages. Illus., appendices, notes, index, bookplate signed by the author affixed to flyleaf. More
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, c1997. First Printing. 24 cm, 163, appendices, notes, index, pencil underlining & marginal notes on several pages, some wear to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author. More
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, c1997. Second Printing. 24 cm, 163, appendices, notes, index, some wear to DJ. More
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, c1997. Fourth Printing. 24 cm, 163, appendices, notes, index. Inscribed by the author ("Stan Turner"). More
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. Fourth printing [stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm, xi, [1], 163, [1] pages. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Index. With Compliments Of the Author bookplate signed by the author affixed to flyleaf. Signed letter to Congressman Thomas Allen, dated April 9, 1998 on author's personal letterhead laid in. Arguing that the time has come to dispense with incremental approaches to arms control, Admiral Stansfield Turner, the former head of the CIA and an experienced senior military commander, proposes a practical yet safe plan that would move the world into a new and secure millennium. Turner analyzes how many nuclear weapons are really needed to maintain our national security, regardless of how many weapons of mass destruction other nations may have. He offers a dramatic, unilateral American initiative to place all the world's nuclear warheads in strategic escrow” whereby none would be ready for immediate use; to initiate a pledge of no first use” and call on other nations to do the same; and to build national defenses against nuclear attack when they become cost-effective. Specifically, Admiral Turner details how a plan for weapons reduction could be carried out for biological and chemical weapons and what tactical and strategic differences exist between de-escalation of nuclear and non-nuclear weapons. The Turner Plan achieves genuine international security and has the potential to achieve wide, bipartisan support. More
New York, N.Y. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 576, [2] pages. Includes Prologue, Acknowledgments, Notes, Selected Sources, and Index. Also includes Situational Awareness, with chapters on A Time to Kill, Star Power, Sea Power, and Arming the Eye; The Ultimate High Ground, with chapters on Unseen, Undetected, Unspoken; Detection Stories; Making War, Seeking Peace; Space Power; and A Time to Heal. In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, planetary scientist and author. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997. In 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium. Tyson served on a 2001 government commission on the future of the U.S. aerospace industry and on the 2004 Moon, Mars and Beyond commission. Avis Lang is a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium. For half a decade, she edited Tyson’s Natural History magazine column, Universe, parts of which became the basis for his Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, and later edited his anthology Space Chronicles. More
Washington, DC: Arms Control & Disarmament, 1975. Revised Edition. 27 cm, 19, wraps, acronyms, some wear and soiling to covers. More
Fort Leavenworth, KS: US Army Command & Gen Staff, 1987. 96, wraps, illus., figures, notes, front cover soiled, rear cover scuffed. More
Washington, DC: Congressional Budget Office, 1987. Quarto, 91, wraps, footnotes, figures, tables, appendices, some wear to cover edges, address sticker & ink arrows on rear cover. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1976. 197, wraps, chronology, figures, charts, appendices. More