Soviet Decision-Making for Defense: A Critique of U.S. Perspectives on the Arms Race
New York: Praeger Publishers, [1972]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 102, index, some wear and soiling to boards, publisher's ephemera laid in. More
New York: Praeger Publishers, [1972]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 102, index, some wear and soiling to boards, publisher's ephemera laid in. More
Place_Pub: Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1983. First Edition. Oversized, 320, profusely illus. (many in color), appendices, tables, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat soiled/scratched. More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1989. Trade paperback. 24 cm, 417 pages. wraps, figures, notes, bibliography, index, some wear to cover edges, front cover curled number in marker on top edge. Gansler points the way towards a national security policy that will enable the United States to proceed, safely and prosperously, towards the 21st century. The author offers sensible proposals for reform and revitalization. More
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [12], 417, [3] pages. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed on fep, signed "Jack". Some yellow highlighting noted. Slightly cocked. Jacques S. Gansler, former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics,was the third ranking civilian at the Pentagon from 1997 to 2001. Gansler was responsible for all research and development, acquisition reform, logistics, advanced technology, environmental security, defense industry, and numerous other security programs. Perviously, Dr. Gansler held a variety of positions in government and the private sector, including Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Material Acquisition), Assistant Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Electronics), Vice President of ITT, and engineering and management positions with Singer and Raytheon Corporations. Throughout his career, Dr. Gansler has written, published and taught on subjects related to his work. He is the author of Defense Conversion: Transforming the Arsenal of Democracy; Affording Defense, , The Defense Industry, and Ballistic Missile Defense: Past and Future. He has published numerous articles in Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, International Security, Public Affairs, and other journals as well as newspapers and frequent Congressional testimonies. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Gansler points the way towards a national security policy that will enable the United States to proceed, safely and prosperously, towards the 21st century. The author offers sensible proposals for reform and revitalization. More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1980. 346, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, extensive ink notes inside front board and flyleaf, ink underlining to text The shortcomings of the defense industry. The author's 25 years of experience in the military-industrial complex put him in a unique position to examine the defense industry. More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981. Third Printing. 346, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, library pocket inside rear board (only library marking), sm tears/chips to DJ edges The shortcomings of the defense industry. The author's 25 years of experience in the military-industrial complex put him in a unique position to examine the defense industry. More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1980. 24 cm, 346, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, some wear/soiling to DJ, paper clip impressions on front DJ. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. 117, wraps, index. More
Boston, MA: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986. First Edition. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 25 cm. x,[2], 523, [9] pages. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Index. James William Gibson is the author of Warrior Dreams: Paramilitary Culture in Post-Vietnam America and The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam. A frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times and winner of multiple awards, including a Guggenheim. He attended graduate school at Yale University, and wrote his thesis on how the U.S. military conceptualized and fought the Vietnam War, and why, despite overwhelming technological superiority, it was defeated by the Vietnamese. The Atlantic Monthly Press subsequently published a revised version of the thesis in 1986 as The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam. In February 2000, Grove/Atlantic re-issued The Perfect War with a new introduction. While writing The Perfect War in the early and mid-1980s Gibson began to study the cultural and political traumas caused by America’s defeat in Vietnam. He began to research the emerging paramilitary culture. More
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada: Prentice Hall Canada, Inc., 1991. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. viii, 209, [5] p. More
Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1982. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [8], 230, [2] pages. Notes. Index. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads Robin, I hope you find something in here that you like. Best regards, as always. Colin. The Table of Contents are: Part I Introduction. 1. Catalysts of Inquiry; 2. Theory, Technology, and Policy; Part II History: 3. Adjusting to the Bomb; The Golden Age; Limited War and Strategic Stability; Arms Control and Central War; From Theory to Practice; The "New Strategy"; Term of Trial; Unfinished Business; Part III: Appraisal: 11 Strategy and Action; and 12 To Advance Knowledge, To Improve Policy. This is one of the Essays for the Third Century: America and a Changing World series. Colin S. Gray (December 29, 1943 – February 27, 2020) was a British-American writer on geopolitics and professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading, where he was the director of the Centre for Strategic Studies. In addition, he was a Senior Associate to the National Institute for Public Policy. He worked at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Hudson Institute, before founding the National Institute for Public Policy in Washington, D.C. He also served as a defense adviser both to the British and U.S. governments. Gray served from 1982 until 1987 in the Reagan Administration's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament. Gray published 30 books on military history and strategic studies, as well as numerous articles. More
Carlisle, PA: U. S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 2005. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. viii, 38, [2] p. Endnotes. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1990. First Printing. 24 cm, 442. More
New York: Crescent Books, 1984. First Printing. 224, illus. (many in color), binding separated and reglued, text complete, DJ worn and soiled. More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1979. Second Printing. 368, maps, appendices, tables, index, stamp inside front flyleaf, DJ quite worn & soiled: tears, small pieces missing. More
Place_Pub: New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1979. Fifth Printing. 368, maps, appendices, tables, index, spine somewhat soiled. More
Place_Pub: New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1979. Sixth Printing. 368, maps, appendices, tables, index, ink notes on front DJ, DJ worn, soiled, small edge tears/chips. More
Washington, DC: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1961. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. [2], 58, [4] pages plus covers. This is one of the Folger Booklets on Tudor and Stuart Civilization, part of a series planned by the Forger Library to describe various aspects of the cultural history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Each of the pamphlets will be illustrated from contemporary documents. This book includes references for further reading, as well as 23 black and white plates, including The History, Siege, and Destruction of Troy, 1513; The Gunner, 1628; and A Treatise of Artificial Fireworks, 1629. Firearms were introduced near the beginning of the fourteenth century. They did not determine the fortunes of war on the battle until early in the sixteenth century, but they had proved effective in siege work a century before, and had captured the imagination of writers and illustrates even earlier. Fifteenth-century manuscripts containing histories of the Middle Ages and the Crusades and the texts of classical historians were illuminated with battle and siege scenes in which handguns and cannons blazed away with a fine disregard for historical accuracy. Sir John Rigby Hale FBA (17 September 1923 – 12 August 1999) was a British historian, best known for his Renaissance studies. Hale was was educated at Jesus College, Oxford. He was a Fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Professor of Italian History at University College, London. His first position was as Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford, from 1949 to 1964. He was a Trustee of the National Gallery, London, from 1973 to 1980, becoming Chairman from 1974. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1984. More
Philadelphia: Chilton Book Company, 1969. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [8], 155, [5] pages. References. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads To Michael with best wishes -- Bill Hallstead Ruxton, Md. Christmas, 1975. The story of the rocket factory near Zajecar and the campaign to destroy it is fiction. But the Nazis actually did develop several surface-to-air missiles late in World War II, although too late to use them effectively. Similarly, the Azon guided bomb was used by the USAAF in the closing months of World War II, and later models were employed in Korea. Mr. Hallstead has underlaid his story with solid technical fact. His B-24s and Focke-Wulf 190s are portrayed as accurately as research permits. Much of the background he has lived himself, from the inside out, as a crew member on a B-24 Liberator in the 15th Air Force during World War II. Details of aircraft described in the story are as accurate as research permits. The 456th Bomb Group (H) and the 747th Squadron were based near Cerignola, Italy, and the base was much as described. However, the events in the story, and the cast of characters, with the exception of General Graz Mihailovic and Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, are entirely fictitious. The author apologizes for the sentimental use of the 456th Group and the 747th Squadron designations. They were the group and squadron in which he served as a B-24 radio operator/gunner in 1945. More
New York: Carroll & Graff Publishers, 2005. First Carroll & Graff Edition [Stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiv, 402 pages. Illustrations. List of Acronyms. Notes and References. Select Bibliography. Index. Black mark on bottom edge. David Hambling is a freelance journalist and author based in South London, specializing mainly in science, technology and strange phenomena. He has also made some forays into fiction: his latest book, Shadows from Norwood, is a collection of HP Lovecraft-inspired horror stories set in and around SE19. More
London, England: Brassey's Defence Publishers, 1985. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. xvi, 155, [1] p. This is volume XI of the Brassey's Battlefield Weapons Systems & Technology Series. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibiliography. Index. More
Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Laboratories, 1998. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. xxiv, 282 pages. Includes illustrations. Figures. Tables. More
Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Laboratories, 1998. First? Edition. First? Printing. 282, wraps, illus., figures, tables. More
Berkeley, CA: University of CA Press, 1971. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 630, edges soiled, DJ worn, soiled, and small edge tears. Includes contributions by many of the major British military historians. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1985. First U. S. edition. Hardcover. 112 p. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. More