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Using official records, the author traces the origins and early development of strategic bombing, and examines its organs in the operations and staff planning of the First World War.

This volume examines the Middle East's leading armed forces and their role in both military and political affairs. It considers their missions, doctrine, training, equipment and effectiveness as fighting forces. At the

This book uses Russian archival and previously classified secondary sources to document the experience of the Red Army in the conflict with Finland, and examines the diplomatic, organisational and social aspects of

This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the medina, the traditional walled Arab city of North Africa. The medina becomes a concrete case study for comparative explorations of general questions about the

This volume offers a dispassionate strategic examination of the Vietnam conflict that challenges the conventional wisdom that South Vietnam could not survive as an independent non-communist entity over the long term regardless

This book, concluding the Tauber trilogy which examines the political development on the Fertile Crescent examines the impact the clandestine and overt political organizations had in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq in

Was Afghanistan the Soviet Vietnam? Was Vietnam the American Afghanistan? During the Cold War, military conflicts in Vietnam and Afghanistan validated the crucial importance of war in global power dynamics. After approximately

This volume charts how the national strategic needs of the United States of America and Great Britain created a "parallel but not joint" relationship towards the Far East as the crisis in

This account was first published in 1829.

This challenging new bookargues that the People's Republic of China is pursuing a long-term strategy to extend its national power by sea.