Technology & Engineering : Military Science

Focusing on warfare in Africa since 1950, the text explores two themes: that in North Africa warfare has been a matter of identity and that south of the Saha......

Mississippians have long found the need for an arsenal of interesting, lethal, and imaginative weapons. Native Americans, frontier outlaws, antebellum duelis......

Until now, there has been no detailed account of Israel's nuclear history. Previous treatments of the subject relied heavily on rumors, leaks, and journalist......

The central theme running throughout this outstanding new survey is the nature of the philosophical debate created by modern science's foundation in experime......

Examining the major academic and policy debates over Chinas rise and related policy issues, this book looks into the motivations and intentions of a rising C......

In today's military of rapid technological and strategic change, obtaining a complete understanding of the present, let alone the past, is a formidable chall......

Did a "doctrine race" exist alongside the much-publicized arms competition between East and West? Using recent insights from organization theory, Kimberly Ma......

Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days in August boldly prese......

The U.S. military is one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. How it spends its money, chooses tactics, and allocates its resources ha......

This volume takes a specific look at the core security priorities of European states and whether these interests are best served through closer security coll......

Children have served as soldiers throughout history. They fought in the American Revolution, the Civil War, and in both world wars. They served as uniformed ......

Urban operations are highly complex because of the multitudes of people and structures as well as the density of the city?'s infrastructure. These same feat......

This report assesses intelligence analysis across the main U.S. intelligence agencies and makes a number of recommendations, some of which parallel initiativ......

This study explores the nature of the insurgency in Afghanistan, the key challenges and successes of the U.S.-led counterinsurgency campaign, and the capabil......

RAND developed a methodology to help understand and explain the differences between U.S. Air National Guard and active component aircraft maintenance product......

Previous studies have shown that the Department of Defense (DoD) and the military departments have historically underestimated the cost of new weapon systems......

The Implementing Standards-Based Accountability (ISBA) study was designed to examine the strategies that states, districts, and schools are using to implemen......

The volume of freight transported in the United States is expected to double in the next 30 years. An increased use of rail freight could allow the supply ch......

Countries in the Arab region are faced with the challenge of developing their populations? skills and technical knowledge, or human capital, in order to comp......

China's Tianjin Binhai New Area and the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area commissioned a technology-foresight study to help plan for economic g......