Congress has expressed a great deal of interest in using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) to surveil the United States' international land border. ...

Unmanned aircraft systems have long held great promise for military operations, but technology has only recently matured enough to exploit that pot...

This book begins with an introduction to urban studies and urbanisation. It provides an analysis of the patterns of urbanisation which are essentia...

No less than Dwight Eisenhower described Andrew Jackson Higgins as "the man who won the war for us," referring to the landing craft he perfected. T...

This second of two volumes on American landing craft of World War II focuses on the larger LCT, LSM, LCS(L)(3), and LST vessels that transported ta...

Though it barely missed being caught and destroyed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the US Navy's USS Enterprise (CV-6) aircraft carrier took p...

USS Hornet (CV-8), made famous through its launching of the 16 US Army B-25 Mitchell bombers flown by Jimmy Doolittle's raiders in the first US str...

The USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship in the United States Navy's last, and most battle-worthy, battleship class, which also included the New Jers...

The story of the USS Missouri, one of America's most famous warships of the twentieth century, and the world's last battleship, is told from her in...

Preserved today as a museum in its namesake state, the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) saw combat during WWII and the Korean War and was the only...

The nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Nimitz is the oldest carrier in the US fleet. Commissioned in 1975, CVN-68 is named after famed navy admiral C...

As lead ship of America’s first “fast battleship” class, and the US Navy’s newest battleship when America entered WWII, the construction of the USS...

Although bombed at Pearl Harbor, USS Tennessee was back to sea before the year was over. The crew of the resilient warship fought from Alaska's Ale...

USS Yorktown (CV-5) was the US Navy's first battle-worthy, purpose-built aircraft carrier. Her crew, already accustomed to wartime conditions by ma...

This book profiles Venezuela with a focus foreign relations and human rights issues. Under the rule of populist President Hugo Chavez, first electe...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has assisted veterans with home-ownership since 1944, when Congress enacted the loan guaranty program to he...

A broad range of medical care services and benefits are offered to veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. This book examines a variety of medical condi...

The 2012 Suicide Data Report contains prevalence data and characteristics of suicide among Veterans and evidence of change in outcomes among Vetera...

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA), within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), operates the nation's largest integrated direct health ca...

The reports that make up this book examine various veteran issues, including what constitutes basic eligibility for veterans’ benefits, military be...

In this book, the authors discuss topical issues relating to veterans including transfusion therapy for veteran patients; low serum vitamin D and i...

This book provides an overview of the benefits, issues, policies and programs relating to our military service-members. Topics discussed in this is...

This book provides an overview of the benefits, issues, policies and programs relating to our military servicemembers. Topics discussed in this iss...

This book provides an overview of the benefits, issues, policies and programs relating to our military service members. Topics discussed in this is...

This book provides an overview of the benefits, issues, policies and programs relating to our military service members. Topics discussed in this is...

Veterans' employment outcomes in the civilian sector are an issue of ongoing congressional interest that has received particular attention during t...

Between 2005 and 2013, the number of veterans receiving mental health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Veterans Health Administra...

In 2016, the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) centralized distribution of the disability compensation claims workload through the National Wo...

In fiscal year 2012, various VA education programs provided nearly $11 billion in education payments to almost 1 million veterans. The 2008 Post-9/...

While many veterans who served in the military after 11 September 2001, have successfully readjusted to civilian life with minimal difficulties in ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) administers directly, or in conjunction with other federal agencies, programs that provide benefits and oth...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides services and benefits to veterans who meet certain eligibility criteria. Benefits to veterans rang...

For years, the Veterans Administration (VA) has struggled with an increasing workload of disability compensation claims. The average time to comple...

The lengthy delays of benefit claims decisions that persist for Veterans returning home with injuries from recent (and past) conflicts confound the...

In fiscal year 2013, VA provided over $12 billion in benefits for veterans' post-secondary education; however, questions have been raised as to whe...

The case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who allegedly attempted to ignite an explosive device on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on December 2009, ref...

This book focuses on voting practices, election reform and local election officials who are critical to the administration of federal elections and...

This book provides details about new and exciting ways of administering elections so that each jurisdiction can chart the future of its own system ...

This is part one of a comprehensive two-volume reference that shows all the camouflage uniforms of the Waffen-SS. Using predominately modern color ...

This is part two of a comprehensive two-volume reference that shows all the camouflage uniforms of the Waffen-SS. Using predominately modern color ...

In American Samoa, the first minimum wage increase raised the wages of about three-quarters of workers at private sector employers. By 2016, the mi...

The report on Kurt Waldheim's activities on the Balkans during World War II attracted political attention when its conclusions became known in 1988...

This second book of the Edwin Cole Bearss memoir begins with his first days in a 40-year career in the National Park Service. Beginning as the Park...

Adopted by the German Wehrmacht at the end of 1939, more than 1.2 million P.38s were manufactured up to 1945. Designed by the Walther company from ...

Many students have come to the study of war and peace from a background heavily influenced by media exposure and political commitment. Some tend to...

War describes a situation of armed conflict between two or more parties. There are several ways in which we can classify wars. The major division i...