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RAND and the Information Evolution
This professional memoir describes RAND's contributions to the evolution of computer science, particularly during the first decades following World War II, when digital computers succeeded slide rules, mechanical desk calculators, electric accounting machines, and analog computers. The memoir includes photographs and vignettes that reveal the collegial, creative, and often playful spirit in which the groundbreaking research was conducted at RAND.
The Future of Just War
Just War scholarship has adapted to contemporary crises and situations. But its adaptation has spurned debate and conversation—a method and means of pushing its thinking forward. Now the Just War tradition risks becoming marginalized. This concern may seem out of place as Just War literature is proliferating, yet this literature remains welded to traditional conceptualizations of Just War. Caron E. Gentry and Amy E. Eckert argue that the tradition needs to be updated to deal with substate actors within the realm of legitimate authority, private military companies, and the questionable moral difference between the use of conventional and nuclear weapons. Additionally, as recent policy maker...
Routledge Handbook of Nuclear Proliferation and Policy
This new Handbook is a comprehensive examination of the rich and complex issues of nuclear proliferation in the early 21st century. The future of the decades-long effort to prevent the further spread of weapons of mass destruction is at a crossroads today. If international nonproliferation efforts are to be successful, an integrated, multi-tiered response will almost certainly be necessary. A serious, thorough, and clear-eyed examination of the range of threats, challenges, and opportunities facing the international community is a necessary first step. This Handbook, which presents the most up-to-date analysis and policy recommendations on these critical issues by recognized, leading scholar...
Influence Warfare
This important work, edited by an expert on terrorism, focuses on the 21st-century struggle for strategic influence and ways in which states can neutralize the role of new media in spreading terrorist propaganda. In an era where anyone can have access to the Internet or other media forms that make widespread communication easy, terrorists and insurgents can spread their messages with complete freedom, creating challenges for national security. Influence Warfare: How Terrorists and Governments Fight to Shape Perceptions in a War of Ideas focuses on the core of the ongoing struggle for strategic influence and, particularly, how states can counter the role media and the Internet play in radical...
Military Review
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The Generals
A New York Times bestseller! An epic history of the decline of American military leadership—from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell. While history has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—it has been less kind to the generals of the wars that followed, such as Koster, Franks, Sanchez, and Petraeus. In The Generals, Thomas E. Ricks sets out to explain why that is. In chronicling the widening gulf between performance and accountability among the top brass of the U.S. military, Ricks tells the stories of great leaders and suspect ones, generals who rose to the occasion and generals who failed themselves and their soldiers. In Ricks’s hands, this story resounds with larger meaning: about the transmission of values, about strategic thinking, and about the difference between an organization that learns and one that fails.
Reaching the Youth
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Penser la guerre au futur
La fin de la guerre froide et les événements de septembre 2001 ont engendré un débat fondamental qui divise les études stratégiques. Certains auteurs avancent que la nature de la guerre s'est transformée, alors que d'autres affirment que sa conduite s'est adaptée aux nouvelles conditions sans modifier les caractéristiques essentielles de la guerre. La réflexion portant sur la conduite des futurs conflits traite presque exclusivement des développements technologiques. Malgré le niveau technologique avancé de notre société, est-ce que cet aspect change significativement la nature et la conduite de la guerre ? Lors d'un conflit armé, est-ce que les aspects technologiques éclipsent désormais les autres considérations comme la doctrine et l'aspect humain ? A titre d'exemple, est-ce que la guerre des robots permettrait d'éliminer l'erreur humaine ou les considérations politiques qui semblent affecter l'efficacité des forces armées depuis des générations ? Cet ouvrage répond à ces nombreuses questions qui auront des répercussions sur la guerre de demain.
The Terrorism Lectures
The authoritative compendium for students of terrorism and counterterrorism.
