Novedades

How will the United States and China evolve militarily in the years ahead? Many experts believe the answer to this question is largely unknowable. But Zack Cooper argues that the American and Chinese militaries are following a well-trodden path. For centuries, the world's most powerful militaries have adhered to a remarkably consistent pattern of behavior, determined largely by their leaders' perceptions of relative power shifts. By uncovering these trends, this book places the evolving military competition between the United States and China in historical context.

This book explores the emerging multipolar authoritarian world and the challenges it presents to the United States and its allies. The essays in the book examine a range of issues, including China's growing economic and military power, Russia's assertive foreign policy, the decline of the U.S.'s global leadership, and the rise of global authoritarianism. The authors argue that the world is moving towards a more unstable and uncertain future, and that Western democracies need to rethink their strategies for dealing with the new global order. Among the key questions addressed are: What are ...

The book focuses on the career and influence of Michael W. Wynne, former Secretary of the Air Force, and his perspectives on American military strategy and technological innovation. The book covers a wide range of topics related to national defense, military modernization, airpower, and global strategic competition. The book emphasizes the need for innovation, interoperability, and a forward-thinking approach to maintaining America's military advantage in a rapidly changing global landscape. The book champions innovation in various areas, including: fifth-generation air capabilities, ...

On August 15, 2021, the world watched in horror as Kabul fell to the Taliban without a fight—erasing 20 years of blood, sweat, and sacrifice in a matter of hours. The sight of Taliban fighters posing in the abandoned U.S. embassy and driving U.S. military Humvees through the streets was a humiliation of historic proportions. How did this happen? How did the United States, the world’s greatest military power, leave Afghanistan in such a disgraceful, chaotic, and deadly manner?

Seit dem 24. Februar 2022 ringt die Bundesrepublik um ihre Haltung zu Krieg, Rüstung und Militär. Was kann die deutsche Armee? Was muss sie können? Wieso ist sie in dem Zustand, in dem sie sich befindet? Sönke Neitzel erzählt die Geschichte der Bundeswehr seit 1955, verfolgt ihre Wandlungen und analysiert die Herausforderungen der Gegenwart.

The paradigm shift in maritime operations involves moving away from concentrating power in capital ships to distributing capabilities across a network of assets. Distributed Maritime Effects (DME) are the effects created by this distributed force, often independent of or supplemental to traditional capital ship operations which are increasingly focused on distributed maritime operations. The book highlights the move from traditional capital ship-centric warfare to a distributed, kill web-enabled force. It highlights the importance of integrating autonomous systems and modular capabilities ...

This book analyses the events leading up to the cluster munitions ban, the provisions of the treaty, as well as assesses the progress made in the years since towards a world without the presence of cluster munitions. Cluster bombs are weapons that are small but deadly. They often look like small metal canisters, and some of them are painted, giving them the innocuous appearance of a soda can. The unexploded submunitions that are scattered on the ground, in effect, act as landmines, that can kill or severely injure anyone who comes across them, sometimes even years and decades later. It has ...

While there have been many notable accounts of the destruction of the Native American tribes of North America—Wounded Knee in late 1800s to the Alcatraz standoff of the 1960s––there is less that’s known about the small Ponca tribe of Niobrara, Nebraska, and how their struggle against relocation by armed US military forces led to a courtroom drama that determined if “an Indian was a human being.” And while Schmidt touches upon the facts of the Ponca’s battle with the US government, the trial of Standing Bear and judge Elmer Dandy’s judgement May 12, 1879, it’s up to the ...