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  • On War (Complete edition translated by J. J. Graham)
    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 €

  • The Persian Expedition
    Xenophon Xenophon
    Stranded deep in enemy territory, the Spartan general Clearchus and the other Greek senior officers were subsequently killed or captured by treachery on the part of the Persian satrap Tissaphernes. Xenophon, one of three remaining leaders elected by the soldiers, played an instrumental role in encouraging the Greek army of 10,000 to march north across foodless deserts and snow-...
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    27,97 €

  • Words of Hope in Troubled Times
    José Ramos-Horta
    The Twenty-first Century offers us a chance, a unique chance, to coalesce around common global interests – to reverse the nefarious consequences of climate change, manage clean water reserves that are becoming a rare commodity, save our polluted rivers, lakes, and seas, replenish the depleted fish stock, eliminate extreme poverty and hunger, and de-escalate tensions on the Kore...
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    23,52 €

  • Inconspicuous
    Wes Choc
    This is about how an unplanned encounter by the author evolved into a worthy story ...a life story about how a young Walter Rothwell, born in the US, grew up in Switzerland and became fluent in four languages by the time he was ...drafted in the US Army during World War II.  Being drafted the same month that the war ended might seem fortuitous, but because of his shrewd languag...
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    12,00 €

  • BEFORE THE FIRST SHOTS ARE FIRED
    TONY ZINNI
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    20,21 €

  • The Price They Paid
    Michael Putzel
    The Price They Paid is the stunning and dramatic true story of a legendary helicopter commander in Vietnam and the flight crews that followed him into the most intensive helicopter warfare ever-and how that brutal experience has changed their lives in the forty years since the war ended. ...
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    11,07 €

  • Luoghi e Architetture della Transizione
    Maria Antonietta Breda
    I sistemi difensivi di confine e la protezione antiaerea nelle città. Storia conservazione riuso / Border defense system and air raid protection in the cities. History conservation reuseThis book collects the papers presented at the Second International Congress on Conoscenza e valorizzazione delle opere militari moderne - Knowledge and development of modern military structures...
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    139,91 €

  • The View From First Mountain
    William G. Hanne / William GHanne
    The Croatian War of Independence ended with the success of Operation Storm on August 7, 1995.  Less than five months later, Bill Hanne found himself part of the Democracy Transition Long Range Management Program and packing for Zagreb.  With his background in military intelligence, plus graduate degrees in political geography and education policy and planning, Dr. Hanne brought...
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    35,53 €

  • National Security and Counterintelligence in the Era of Cyber Espionage
    Eugenie de Silva
    As technology continues to advance, the threats imposed on these innovations also continue to grow and evolve. As such, law enforcement specialists diligently work to counteract these threats, promote national safety, and defend the individual rights of citizens. National Security and Counterintelligence in the Era of Cyber Espionage highlights technological advancements in int...
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    262,41 €

  • On War
    Carl Von Clausewitz
    Unabridged value reproduction of the most critical and thought provoking first four books of “On War” by Carl von Clausewitz, translated by J.J. Graham, and including footnotes. These books give the theory and goals of war that can be applied to conquering meeting rooms and empires. This volume of On War includes topics of the Nature, Theory, and Strategy of War and Combat.Thes...
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    18,77 €

  • Tutu’s Rainbow World
    Joseph Kaifala
    Joseph Kaifala was born in Freetown. Now a Human Rights lawyer in the USA and author of “Free Slaves, Freetown and the Sierra Leonean Civil War” his poetry deals with Africa’s poverty, armed conflicts and the suffering of its child soldiers.   ...
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    11,99 €

  • Commanding the Stars
    Michael VanPutte
    In Commanding the Stars, military strategist and scholar Michael A. VanPutte reveals how the imagined worlds of science fiction can illuminate the timeless realities of war. This work fuses classical military theory with speculative vision, arguing that science fiction serves as a laboratory where strategy’s eternal questions meet tomorrow’s technologies and moral dilemmas.From...
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    15,00 €

  • America, the Baltic States and the Making of an Unlikely Security Alliance
    Andris Banka
    This open access book reckons with the US-Baltic security alliance. It traces the uncertain beginnings of this partnership, illuminating how the United States, rather than Europe, became the key underwriter of Baltic security. The manuscript captures the many contradictions, setbacks and disappointments that had to be overcome on both sides of the Atlantic for these ties to mat...
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    75,49 €

  • How Western Soldiers Fight
    Cornelius Friesendorf
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    153,33 €

  • The Middle East’s Trajectory to 2035
    Mostafa Ebrahim
    The Middle East’s Trajectory to 2035: Managed Instability and Strategic Adaptation offers a rigorous, scenario-based examination of the forces that will shape the Middle East over the coming decade. Moving beyond headlines and speculative forecasts, this book provides a structured analytical framework for understanding how climate stress, economic fragmentation, governance dive...
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    46,81 €

  • EL ARQUITECTO DEL ABISMO
    Atahualpa Campos
    EL ARQUITECTO DEL ABISMO ofrece un análisis profundo y sin concesiones sobre una de las figuras más determinantes y controvertidas del siglo XXI: Benjamín Netanyahu. En esta obra, el investigador y analista Atahualpa Campos desentraña la compleja red de decisiones políticas y militares que han llevado a Oriente Medio al borde de una conflagración nuclear.A través de una investi...
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    11,43 €

  • The Gulf monarchies after the Arab Spring
    Cinzia Bianco
    The post-Arab Spring collapse of decades-old regimes inaugurated a decade of re-shaping for the geopolitical order in the Middle East and North Africa region. A multipolar disorder ensued, solidified by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Amid general bewilderment, the small monarchies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) spent the decade between...
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    60,47 €

  • Multidomain Operations
    In Multidomain Operations: The Pursuit of Battlefield Dominance in the 21st Century, Amos Fox and Franz-Stefan Gady challenge one of modern war’s most influential doctrines: MDO. Is it the right framework for 21st-century conflict-or a concept rushed into service without sufficient grounding? Through the lenses of origin, field application, academic critique, and international ...
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    34,11 €

  • Water Warfare History And Security Perspectives Chronological Accounts of Water Wars And Conflicts
    Sadia Ashraf
    WATER WARFARE HISTORY AND SECURITY PERSPECTIVES CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNTS OF WATER WARS AND CONFLICTS SADIA ASHRAF ...
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    114,13 €

  • Elite Rivalry, Mass Killing and Genocide in Authoritarian Regimes
    Eelco van der Maat
    This book explains how mass killing is driven by elite politics within authoritarian regimes. ...
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    82,90 €

  • The Missile Revolution
    Central Intelligence Agency / Rickover AI
    For the first time in history, the CIA’s most classified assessments of Soviet underwater nuclear capabilities are revealed to the public. Volume 4 of this groundbreaking 10-volume series exposes how Moscow’s revolutionary missile submarines transformed the balance of Cold War power beneath the world’s oceans.These declassified intelligence documents reveal the hidden arms race...
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    46,42 €

  • Surface Fleet Illusions
    Central Intelligence Agency / Rickover AI
    The CIA’s most classified assessments reveal that both superpowers built their surface fleets on fundamentally flawed assumptions about modern naval warfare.Volume 6 of Cold War Soviet Naval Intelligence exposes the intelligence community’s stark conclusions about the obsolescence of conventional warships in the missile age. These declassified documents demonstrate how Soviet a...
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    52,35 €

  • The Intelligence War
    Central Intelligence Agency / Rickover AI
    The most closely guarded secrets of Soviet naval intelligence operations are finally revealed in these newly declassified CIA documents from the height of the Cold War. Volume 7 of this groundbreaking 10-volume series exposes the sophisticated espionage networks, reconnaissance systems, and information warfare capabilities that made the Soviet Navy a formidable adversary beneat...
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    51,19 €

  • Gorshkov vs. The World
    Central Intelligence Agency / Rickover AI
    Admiral Sergey Gorshkov’s master plan to challenge American naval supremacy unfolds in these newly declassified CIA intelligence assessments from the height of the Cold War. Volume 5 of this ten-part series reveals how the Soviet Navy transformed from a coastal defense force into a global threat capable of projecting power across every ocean.These previously classified document...
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    47,59 €

  • Beyond Principles?
    Martin Gottwald
    The book examines how well UNHCR’s internal culture has remained aligned with its protection mandate’s core values and principles amidst a rapidly evolving external environment and how this alignment-or lack thereof-impacts its external performance in refugee emergencies.The book uses a psychodynamic approach to examine the underlying assumptions, values, beliefs and behaviours...
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    179,85 €

  • New Directions in Vernacular Security Research
    This edited collection offers new engagement with important case studies and contexts that have been neglected in the field of vernacular security research. With cutting edge scholarship from fieldwork and primary research in Georgia, Tunisia, Bangladesh, the Pacific Islands, and beyond, the book’s international focus takes vernacular security research far beyond its traditiona...
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    179,95 €

  • The Nuclear Reckoning
    Naim Tahir Baig
    BOOK DESCRIPTIONThe Nuclear Reckoning: Why Cold War Arms Control Is Failing the 21st CenturyBook 2 of The START TrilogyThe frameworks that prevented nuclear catastrophe during the Cold War are crumbling. On February 21, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START)-the last remaining agreement limiting the world’s two large...
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    26,64 €

  • The Verification Game
    Naim Tahir Baig
    BOOK DESCRIPTIONTHE VERIFICATION GAMEInside the Secret World of Nuclear Arms InspectionsBook 1 of The START TrilogyBy Dr. Naim Tahir BaigIn the shadow of forty thousand nuclear warheads, a question haunted Cold War strategists: How do you make enemies prove they are actually disarming?The Verification Game takes readers behind the iron curtain of nuclear diplomacy into a world ...
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    26,95 €

  • African Non-Military Conflict Intervention Practices
    This book scrutinizes the enactment and effects of African non-military conflict interventions from a range of different perspectives and contexts. It will be an important read for peacebuilding practitioners and think tanks, as well as researchers working across African international relations, peace, and conflict studies. ...
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    268,16 €

  • Are We Running Out Of Missile Defense Interceptors?
    Naim Tahir Baig
    BOOK DESCRIPTIONARE WE RUNNING OUT OF MISSILE DEFENSE INTERCEPTORS?A Global Assessment of Defensive Capacity, Industrial Constraints, and Strategic ImplicationsIn June 2025, as Iranian ballistic missiles rained down on Israel during a twelve-day war, the United States expended approximately 25 percent of its global THAAD interceptor inventory-more than 100 of these $12.7 millio...
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    40,23 €


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