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Название: Military Statecraft and the Rise of Shaping in World Politics
Автор(ы): Wolfley Kyle J.
Издательство: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers
Год: 2021
Страниц: 203
Язык: English
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 8,27 MB


In today’s complex international environment, how do the United States, China, and Russia manage the return of great power competition as well as the persistent threat of violent non-state actors? This book explores "shaping": the use of military power to construct a more favorable environment by influencing the characteristics of other militaries, altering the relationships between them, or managing the behavior of allies. As opposed to traditional strategies of warfighting or coercion, shaping relies less on threats, demonstrations, and uses of violence and more on attraction, persuasion, and legitimacy. Because shaping relies more on soft power than on hard power, this approach contradicts the conventional wisdom of the purpose militaries serve. Kyle J. Wolfley explores the emergence of shaping in classical strategy and its increased frequency following the end of the Cold War when threats and allies became more ambiguous. He illustrates the four logics of shaping—attraction, socialization, delegation, and assurance—through five case studies of recent major military exercise programs led by the United States, China, India, the United Kingdom, and Russia. Moreover, the author reveals through sentiment analysis and statistics over one thousand multinational exercises from 1980 to 2016 reveal how major powers reacted to a complex international environment by expanding the number and scope of shaping exercises. Illuminating an understudied but surprisingly common tool of military statecraft, this book offers a fresh understanding of military power in today's competitive international system.

Название: Instruction Manual PPS-M2
Издательство: Walter Arms Inc
Страниц: 36
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 767,22 КБ


A firearm and ammunition are a system and must work together. Their performance is closely related. There are different types of ammunition for different types of firearms. Your firearm has been designed for ammunition of a specific type and a specific caliber. It is important to select the proper ammunition for your firearm. Different combinations of bullet velocity, bullet weight and firearm weight can have major impact on felt recoil; high felt recoil can be uncomfortable to some shooters.
The Walther PPS M2 pistol has a maximum thickness of one inch - 25.4 mm, compared to the 23 mm thickness of its predecessor. At the same time, the handle received a more ergonomic shape with a new texture and more pronounced notches for fingers. The M2 model is not equipped with a Picatinny rail mount in the front of the frame. The breeder of the new pistol received a front notch.

Название: Diplomacy and Intelligence in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World
Автор(ы): Suonpaa Mika, Wright Owain
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Год: 2019
Страниц: 264
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 21,48 MB


Diplomacy and Intelligence in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World examines the activities of diplomats and military spies in the expansion of their home country's informal imperial ambitions. Taking a comparative approach, the book combines a focus on the extension of the informal British Empire with an exploration of the imperial ambitions of other states, such as France, Austro-Hungary and Japan. The authors combine approaches from diplomatic history, military intelligence history and microhistory in order to give new insights into the Mediterranean as a 'contested space' between competing informal empires. This study will be of great interest to anyone interested in the history of the Mediterranean region during the 19th century.

Название: Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare
Автор(ы): Hazelton Jacqueline L.
Издательство: Cornell University Press
Год: 2021
Страниц: 220
Язык: English
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 2,72 MB


In Bullets Not Ballots, Jacqueline L. Hazelton challenges the claim that winning "hearts and minds" is critical to successful counterinsurgency campaigns. Good governance, this conventional wisdom holds, gains the besieged government popular support, denies support to the insurgency, and makes military victory possible. Hazelton argues that major counterinsurgent successes since World War II have resulted not through democratic reforms but rather through the use of military force against civilians and the co-optation of rival elites. Hazelton offers new analyses of five historical cases frequently held up as examples of the effectiveness of good governance in ending rebellions―the Malayan Emergency, the Greek Civil War, the Huk Rebellion in the Philippines, the Dhofar rebellion in Oman, and the Salvadoran Civil War―to show that, although unpalatable, it was really brutal repression and bribery that brought each conflict to an end. By showing how compellence works in intrastate conflicts, Bullets Not Ballots makes clear that whether or not the international community decides these human, moral, and material costs are acceptable, responsible policymaking requires recognizing the actual components of counterinsurgent success―and the limited influence that external powers have over the tactics of counterinsurgent elites.

Название: Bibliography of Intelligence Literature: A Critical and Annotated Bibliography of Open-Source Literature
Автор(ы): Pforzheimer Walter (ed.)
Издательство: Washington: Defense Intelligence College
Год: 1985, Eighth edition
Страниц: 90
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 6,49 MB


One of the hallmarks of a profession is a recognized body of literature that has grown up about and around it. By this measure, intelligence has long been able to claim the title "profession." However, intelligence, by its nature, has also given rise to a significant number of misinformed, partially correct and incorrect written accounts. Serious students, scholars and professionals need to know the extent to which their sources are accurate and reliable. This critically annotated Bibliography of Intelligence Literature is intended to fulfill that function. The Eighth Edition of the Bibliography, like its predecessors, owes an inestimable debt to the untiring efforts of Dr. Walter Pforzheimer, an Adjunct Professor at the Defense Intelligence College. Those already familiar with the field of intelligence literature know that Dr. Pforzheimer is uniquely qualified to select and annotate entries for this Bibliography. After a career in intelligence that began in 1942 in Air Force Intelligence, and included being CIA's first Legislative Counsel (1946-56) as well as Curator of its Historical Intelligence Collection from 1956-1974, he is recognized as the foremost bibliographer and bibliophile in the field.

Название: Soviet Leaders and Intelligence: Assessing the American Adversary during the Cold War
Автор(ы): Garthoff Raymond L.
Издательство: Georgetown University Press
Год: 2015
Страниц: 161
Язык: English
Формат: DJVU
Размер: 1,14 MB


During the Cold War, the political leadership of the Soviet Union avidly sought intelligence about its main adversary, the United States. Although effective on an operational level, Soviet leaders and their intelligence chiefs fell short when it came to analyzing intelligence. Soviet leaders were often not receptive to intelligence that conflicted with their existing beliefs, and analysts were reluctant to put forward assessments that challenged ideological orthodoxy. There were, however, important changes over time. Ultimately the views of an enlightened Soviet leader, Gorbachev, trumped the ideological blinders of his predecessors and the intelligence service's dedication to an endless duel with their ideologically spawned "main adversary," making it possible to end the Cold War. Raymond Garthoff draws on over five decades of personal contact with Soviet diplomats, intelligence officers, military leaders, and scholars during his remarkable career as an analyst, senior diplomat, and historian. He also builds on previous scholarship and examines documents from Soviet and Western archives.Soviet Leaders and Intelligence offers an informed and highly readable assessment of how the Soviets understood―and misunderstood―the intentions and objectives of their Cold War adversary.

Название: Performing Nuclear Weapons: How Britain Made Trident Make Sense
Автор(ы): Beaumont Paul
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2021
Страниц: 250
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 4,94 MB


This book investigates the UK’s nuclear weapon policy, focusing in particular on how consecutive governments have managed to maintain the Trident weapon system. The question of why states maintain nuclear weapons typically receives short shrift: its security, of course. The international is a perilous place, and nuclear weapons represent the ultimate self-help device. This book seeks to unsettle this complacency by re-conceptualizing nuclear weapon-armed states as nuclear regimes of truth and refocusing on the processes through which governments produce and maintain country-specific discourses that enable their continued possession of nuclear weapons. Illustrating the value of studying nuclear regimes of truth, the book conducts a discourse analysis of the UK’s nuclear weapons policy between 1980 and 2010. In so doing, it documents the sheer imagination and discursive labour required to sustain the positive value of nuclear weapons within British politics, as well as providing grounds for optimism regarding the value of the recent treaty banning nuclear weapons.

Название: Histories of Surveillance from Antiquity to the Digital Era: The Eyes and Ears of Power
Автор(ы): Marklund Andreas, Skouvig Laura
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2021
Страниц: 212
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 2,23 MB


Deploying empirical studies spanning from early Imperial China to the present day, 17 scholars from across the globe explore the history of state's surveillance with special attention to the mechanisms of power that impel the concept of surveillance in society. By delving into a broad range of historical periods and contexts, the book sheds new light on surveillance as a societal phenomenon, offering 10 in-depth, applied analyses that revolve around two main questions:
• Who are the central actors in the history of surveillance?
• What kinds of phenomena have been deemed eligible for surveillance, for example, information flows, political movements, border-crossing trade, interacting with foreign states, workplace relations, gender relations, and sexuality?

Название: War Chronicles: From Flintlocks to Machine Guns
Автор: Joseph Cummins
Издательство: Crestline 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 392
Размер: 105 MB

A Global Survey of Modern Warfare, from the First Fervid Days of the French Revolution of 1789 to the Bloody Stalemate that Ended the Iran-Iraq War in 1988

In the modern era, warfare entered a new phase. Technological innovation yielded evermore destructive weaponry, international communications and alliances greatly extended the reach of conflicts, and military strategists increasingly targeted infrastructure and civilians, while new media—first photography, then film and television—conveyed the horror and brutality of industrialized combat to those who had the good fortune to live beyond the battle zones.

Название: Runjeet Singh: Arts of the Oriental Warrior 2019
Издательство: Runjeet Singh Limited
Год: 2019
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 44
Размер: 13 Mb
Язык: English

Runjeet Singh: Arts of the Oriental Warrior 2019