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paperbackEngels624 blz.9780141993515
1e druk
6-10-2025
By highlighting the political nature of strategy, Freedman shows that military decision-making cannot be separated from civilian priorities and that commanders must now have the sensibility to navigate politics as well as warfare. Meer
gebondenEngels400 blz.9780197793930
3-9-2024
The moment in the sun for special operations sometimes appears to have passed, seemingly eclipsed by preparations for potential conflict under the guise of "great power" competition, combined with failure in Afghanistan. Meer
paperbackEngels86 blz.9780192802576
1e druk
21-2-2002
Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is generally acknowledged to be one of the greatest of writers on war. Meer
paperbackEngels784 blz.9780192821911
11-6-2009
'The greatest historian that ever lived'
Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole of the Greek world, and ended in the fall of Athens. Meer
gebondenEngels170 blz.9780198242505
31-1-1991
Cartesian method, construed as a way of organizing domains of knowledge according to the `order of reason', was a powerful reductive tool. Descartes produced important results in mathematics, physics, and metaphysics by relating certain complex items and problems back to simpler elements that serve as starting points for his inquiries. Meer
gebondenEngels220 blz.9780198755708
15-12-2016
Recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on local ownership in United Nations peacekeeping. Advocates assert that it boosts the legitimacy and sustainability of peacekeeping by helping to preserve the principles of self-determination and non-imposition in an activity that can contravene them. Meer
gebondenEngels288 blz.9780198872788
15-6-2023
Ever since the French Revolution and the rise of the rise of national armies, the mercenary has been viewed as a maligned and marginalized actor in international relations. Meer
paperbackEngels432 blz.9780141980614
6-1-2025
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF CHERNOBYL: HISTORY OF A TRAGEDY
'An indispensable guide to the tragic history of a great European nation' Sunday Telegraph
'This is present-minded history at its most urgent. Meer
paperbackEngels368 blz.9780141980638
1e druk
6-8-2015
This book explains the Orthodox views on such widely ranging matters as Ecumenical Councils, Sacraments, and more. Meer
gebondenEngels336 blz.9780198894612
28-3-2024
gebondenEngels304 blz.9780198886617
26-9-2023
UN peace operations increasingly deploy police forces and engage in policing tasks. The turn to 'police peacekeeping' has generally been met with enthusiasm in both academic and policy circles, and is often understood to provide a more civilian instrument of intervention, better suited to mandates that increasingly emphasize protection. Meer
paperbackEngels648 blz.9780198895985
7e druk
5-5-2026
gebondenEngels256 blz.9780198944690
11-9-2025
gebondenEngels304 blz.9780197745441
1e druk
29-12-2024
Mariarosaria Taddeo provides a systematic analysis of the ethical challenges that arise from the use of AI for national defence. Meer
gebondenEngels352 blz.9780197745854
1e druk
4-5-2024
In Subversion, Lennart Maschmeyer provides a powerful new theory and analysis of an age-old concept. Meer