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  • Siria, la guerra interminable
    Niko Roa
    Cuando se cumplen siete años del inicio de la injerencia extranjera en Siria, con el fin declarado de derrocar al presidente electo, y poner en su lugar un gobierno ahormado a los intereses de las potencias occidentales o vasallas de Occidente cabe echar la vista atrás y analizar lo que ha sido esa guerra impuesta, las terribles consecuencias que ha tenido para el pueblo sirio,...
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    20,80 €

  • Strategists And Strategy
    A K Ganguly
    The book ’Strategists and Strategy’ was outcome from observations of functioning and conceptualisation of strategy at the level of junior and senior management, at unit and organisational level. What prompted the author in highlighting the issues as discussed in the book, were reluctance and the hesitancy of the management in strategising and the human aspects which has always ...
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    61,14 €

  • Praxis Tacticum
    Charles S. Oliviero
    Pundits have long predicted the end of conventional warfare but for the foreseeable future, it is here to stay. Counterinsurgency, guerrilla warfare, terrorism, peace enforcement, policing. All these forms, like conventional warfare, are as old as mankind. Modern militaries claim to be professional bodies, responsible for the education, control and discipline of their members. ...
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    20,53 €

  • On War
    Carl von Clausewitz / J. J. Graham / JJGraham
    Carl von Clausewitz entered the Prussian military at the age of twelve as a Lance-Corporal and would go on to obtain the rank of Major-General. In 'On War', Clausewitz draws upon his experiences fighting in the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, as well as his military studies at the 'Kriegsakademie', or Prussian War Academy, which he would eventually become director of. Cl...
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    24,61 €

  • Strike Hard and Expect No Mercy
    Galen Peterson
    Strike Hard and Expect No Mercy is the story of boots on the ground in Iraq, as seen through the eyes of a tank platoon leader. Baqubah, on the eve of the Surge, and Sadr City, during the spring uprising of 2008, saw some of the darkest hours of the war. A tough dragon, the M1A2 Abrams tank and its crews were often called to crack the toughest nuts on the battlefield, and victo...
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    24,19 €

  • Strike Hard and Expect No Mercy
    Galen Peterson
    Strike Hard and Expect No Mercy is the story of boots on the ground in Iraq, as seen through the eyes of a tank platoon leader. Baqubah, on the eve of the Surge, and Sadr City, during the spring uprising of 2008, saw some of the darkest hours of the war. A tough dragon, the M1A2 Abrams tank and its crews were often called to crack the toughest nuts on the battlefield, and victo...
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    17,24 €

  • Proscribing peace
    Sophie Haspeslagh
    Proscribing peace shows how the listing of armed groups as terrorists has made pre-negotiations harder and more prolonged. Drawing on fieldwork in Colombia during the negotiation with the FARC, Sophie Haspeslagh introduces the concept of ’linguistic ceasefire’ which becomes a central pre-condition for the initiation of a peace process. ...
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    145,12 €

  • The Role of Law Enforcement in Emergency Management and Homeland Security
    This book examines the role and involvement of law enforcement agencies across the spectrum of homeland security and emergency management. Contributions from expert practitioners and academics are organized around the mission areas of mitigation/protection, prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. ...
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    178,36 €

  • THE ART OF WAR
    Sun Tzu
    The Art of War was written by a Chinese general named Sun Tzu more than 2,500 years ago. The book has long been heralded for its advice on military success. And this advice has since been co-opted by legions of armchair soldiers and generals in the business world. The book is composed of 13 chapters, each of which focuses on a different aspect of war. ...
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    8,82 €

  • Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
    Richards Heuer / Richards J. Heuer / Richards JHeuer
    2021 Reprint of 1999 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. This volume pulls together and republishes, with some editing, updating, and additions, articles written during 1978-86 for internal use within the CIA Directorate of Intelligence. The information is relatively timeless and still relevant to the never-ending q...
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    26,70 €

  • The Otter and his Hawk
    Robert H. Sabet / Robert HSabet
    Grey Otter, a half Cherokee man also known as Skeeter Vaughan, the legendary knife and tomahawk thrower; devised a tomahawk fighting system during World War Two. This book provides an overview of his hawk system as well as discusses his background. It also offers a look at several other Warriors, some who also fought against the Axis powers. ...
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    36,57 €

  • Butterfly of the Night
    Haydar Karataş / Caroline Stockford
    Haydar Karataş, the author, of Gece Kelebeği - Perperık-a Söe (Butterfly of the Night) now lives in exile in Zurich. The book’s child-narrator, his mother, was swept up in a series of tragic historical event in the mountainous region of Dersim in Northeastern Anatolia. Dersim (renamed Tunceli in 1935). The area was 90 km east-west and 70 km north-south and, in the 1930s, it had...
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    17,06 €

  • Operación Forager
    Daniel Wrinn
    'Tanto los aficionados a la historia como los aficionados novatos a la historia adorarán este libro'.  Un apasionante relato de una de las operaciones más atrevidas e inquietantes de la guerra del Pacífico. Desde los intensos combates en Saipan hasta el aseguramiento de Tinian y Guam, la guerra del Pacífico dejó una profunda huella en este rincón protegido del mundo, que se sen...
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    13,12 €

  • Vietnam War Memoirs The Most Prominent Veterans Narrative About Vietnam War
    Mike Parson
    This book comprehensively studies the content, author demographics, publishing history, and media representation of the most prominent Vietnam veteran memoirs published between 1967 and 2005. These personal narratives are important because they have affected the collective memory of the Vietnam War for decades. The primary focus of this study is an analysis of how veterans’ mem...
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    13,02 €

  • NATO and the Future of European and Asian Security
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    216,23 €

  • Special Operations Mindset
    Life is a Special Operation
    How much better would your world be if you deliberately trained and developed your Confidence, Competence, Discipline, Motivation, Intensity & Mental Toughness like an elite member of the Special Operations community?Whether fighting the war against terrorism or applying their mentality and leadership principles in the marketplace or at home, this book is for anyone who wants t...
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    15,64 €

  • Delta of Power
    Alex Roland
    Does the Military-Industrial Complex as we understand it still exist? If so, how has it changed since the end of the Cold War? First named by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address, the Military-Industrial Complex, originally an exclusively American phenomenon of the Cold War, was tailored to develop and produce military technologies equal to the existential th...
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    36,69 €

  • Art of War in Bengali (যুদ্ধ কলা
    Sun Tzu
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    12,95 €

  • Art of War in Hindi (युद्ध की कला
    Sun Tzu
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    14,15 €

  • Cyber Politics in US-China Relations
    Cuihong Cai
    Cyber issues are of utmost importance and sensitivity for US-China relations today. The combination of cyber and politics is also developing from 'low politics' to 'high politics'. This book discusses cyber politics in US-China relations from four distinct aspects: first, the overall analysis of the role and manifestation of cyber politics in international relations from a theo...
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    154,22 €

  • Beleaguered Superpower
    Daniel Quinn Mills / Steven Rosefielde
    As a new president takes over in Washington, three intertwined threats imperil the world. One is internal. The others are external. The internal threat is a potent and increasingly anti-patriotic, anti-competitive, anti-meritocratic, and sky-is-the-limit federal deficit spending political current that is simultaneously diminishing and destabilizing American and global economic ...
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    117,51 €

  • Beleaguered Superpower
    Daniel Quinn Mills / Steven Rosefielde
    As a new president takes over in Washington, three intertwined threats imperil the world. One is internal. The others are external. The internal threat is a potent and increasingly anti-patriotic, anti-competitive, anti-meritocratic, and sky-is-the-limit federal deficit spending political current that is simultaneously diminishing and destabilizing American and global economic ...
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    35,18 €

  • THE THOMPSON SUBMACHINE GUN
    Anon
    One of a series of Second World War booklets on weapons intended for the training of recruits, this treatise is dedicated to the venerable military type Thompson .45 calibre submachine gun. This model (M1928) had provisions for box and drum magazines. It had a Cutts compensator, cooling fins on the barrel, employed a delayed blowback action and its charging handle was on the to...
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    13,25 €

  • Illustrated Record of German Army Equipment 1939-45 ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES
    Military Intelligence The War Office
    A prime source for all who need information regarding German AFVs in the Second World War.The issue of this publication, two years after the end of the war in Europe, was designed to put on record essential information on the armament of the German Land Forces during the war. It includes some of the more interesting equipment that was developed, but which, due to the conclusion...
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    56,88 €

  • Ministry Of Home Security OBJECTS DROPPED FROM THE AIR 1941
    Ministry of Home Security
    An illustrated official and confidential publication, covering the many and varied types of objects that were falling from principally German aircraft during the second phase of the blitz, including high explosives, incendiary bombs and small arms ammunition.  ...
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    13,25 €

  • The War for Gaul
    Julius Caesar / James O’Donnell
    A translation that captures the power of one of the greatest war stories ever told-Julius Caesar’s account of his brutal campaign to conquer GaulImagine a book about an unnecessary war written by the ruthless general of an occupying army-a vivid and dramatic propaganda piece that forces the reader to identify with the conquerors and that is designed, like the war itself, to fue...
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    22,19 €

  • Germany’s Russia problem
    John Lough
    The relationship between Germany and Russia is Europe’s most important link with the largest country on the continent. This book analyses how successive German governments from 1991 to 2014 have misread Russian intentions, until Angela Merkel sharply recalibrated German and EU policy towards Moscow. ...
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    34,28 €

  • Crimes of States and Powerful Elites
    Simon Prideaux
    A collection of case studies investigating the crimes of the powerful, the social harms caused and the perpetuation of inequalities through lack of prosecution. ...
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    180,26 €

  • The Arab Spring
    Edward Lynch
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    108,40 €

  • BRITISH REGIMENTS 1914-18
    Brigadier E.A. James / Brigadier E.AJames
    In this marvellous volume is listed every cavalry and yeomanry regiment, every battalion of every infantry regiment, regular, territorial or other - that existed during the Great War. In every case the location of the unit on 4 August 1914 is given, or the date and place of its formation if raised after the outbreak of war. Its initial disposition, subsequent moves, changes in ...
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    25,75 €