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Cyber War Will Not Take Place
ISBN: PB: 9781849047128, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
232 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Cyber war is coming", announced a landmark RAND report in 1993. In 2005, the U.S. Air Force boasted it would now fly, fight, and win in cyberspace, the "fifth domain" of warfare. This book takes stock, twenty years on: is cybe...
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£12,99
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Enemies Known and Unknown Targeted Killings in America's Transnational War
ISBN: PB: 9781849046442, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! President Obama was elected on an anti-war platform, yet targeted killings have increased under his command of the "War on Terror". The US thinks of itself as upholding the rule of international law and spreading democracy, yet...
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£25,00
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For the Motherland! For Stalin! A Red Army Officer's Memoir of the Eastern Front
ISBN: HB: 9781849047975, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Boris Bogachev's highly readable account of life as a young platoon commander in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 is both a riveting tale of hardship and courage and a deeply informative military history. The son of a Sovi...
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£25,00
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Art of Creating Power Freedman on Strategy
ISBN: HB: 9781849045810, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
308 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Art of Creating Power" explores the intellectual thought and wider impact – on military affairs, politics and the universities – of Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on strategy, confl...
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£30,00
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Rebel Law Insurgents, Courts and Justice in Modern Conflict
ISBN: HB: 9781849047982, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In most societies, courts are where the rubber of government meets the road of the people. If a state cannot settle disputes and ensure that its decisions are carried out, for practical purposes it is no longer in charge. This...
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£25,00
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Boko Haram Nigeria's Islamist Insurgency
ISBN: PB: 9781849046619, ISBN: HB: 9781849044912, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Northern and central Nigeria have been engulfed in a violent insurgency campaign waged by Jama'atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda'awati w'al Jihad, a.k.a. "Boko Haram", and for a time, its splinter group "Ansaru". From its inception an inw...
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£20,00
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Guardians of the Arab State When Militaries Intervene in Politics, from Iraq to Mauritania
ISBN: HB: 9781849046480, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Guardians of the Arab State" explains clearly and concisely how and why military organisations become involved in politics across the Middle East and North Africa, identifying four key factors: a high degree of organisational...
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£30,00
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Inside the Enemy's Computer Identifying Cyber-Attackers
ISBN: HB: 9781849045544, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Attribution – tracing those responsible for a cyber attack – is of primary importance when classifying it as a criminal act, an act of war, or an act of terrorism. Three assumptions dominate current thinking: attribution is a t...
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£30,00
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Rebooting Clausewitz "On War" in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: PB: 9781849047142, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Rebooting Clausewitz" offers an entirely new take on the work of history's greatest theorist of war. Written for an undergraduate readership that often struggles with Clausewitz's master work On War – a book that is often cons...
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£15,99
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Weapon of Choice Small Arms and the Culture of Military Innovation
ISBN: HB: 9781849046503, Hurst Publishers, January 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book examines Western military technological innovation through the lens of developments in small arms during the twentieth century. These weapons have existed for centuries, appear to have matured only incrementally and m...
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£30,00
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