The authors examine some of the most significant ongoing transnational or "spillover" problems associated with the continuing conflict in Iraq, wit...

A must for the World War II fighter buff, this book is a fascinating look into the minds of U.S. and British engineers, company and NACA test pilot...

The F-84 Thunderjet was the US Air Force’s main strike aircraft during the Korean War and was used primarily in ground attack operations. Manufactu...

The Republic Aviation Corporation F-84 series, the Thunderjet, Thunderstreak, and Thunderflash was the United States Air Forces' first Post World W...

This book chronicles the story of the A-10, including program history, aircraft paint schemes, all units operating the aircraft and their markings,...

This book focuses on the features and structure of the EU's food chain, food industry developments, introduction of new technologies, institutional...

Robert Mikesh takes the reader step by step through the process of aircraft restoration from the initial decision to prepare for an exhibit: Does i...

Professional economists believe that the development of basic industries in general and the steel industry in particular is the best beginning step...

Stock markets play an increasingly important part in economic life. This is true for the public at large, of corporations, of hedge funds, of regul...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Defense (DOD) both have systems that track varying levels of detail related to revo...

This is the fascinating story of the single-engine Lockheeds flown by Charles Lindbergh, Wiley Post and Will Rogers, Amelia Earhart, and Jimmy Dool...

On the ghastly battlefields of the First World War, Jimmie Johnston drove teams or pack horses carrying ammunition and hauling guns to the front li...

The United States confronts a wide array of threats at U.S. borders, ranging from terrorists who may have weapons of mass destruction, to transnati...

On December 16, 1958, a Thor intermediate-range ballistic missile became the first rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB, California. Established from ...

Information is included as to where each plane served, who flew it and the ultimate fate of each THUD. Contains photographs of different serial num...

During the times German soldiers weren’t involved in combat operations, they felt some return to a normal existence and a temporary break from the ...

This second volume focuses on the daily life of the German soldier when they weren’t involved in combat operations. It was during these breaks in t...

Rural residents have higher rates of age-adjusted mortality, disability, and chronic disease than their urban counterparts, though mortality and di...

Rural areas are home to about 50 million Americans and are an essential part of the overall economy. This book surveys the current state of rural A...

This book examines the current political, economic, security, and U.S. interest issues facing Russia today. Although Russia may not be as central t...

In the early 1990s, Georgia and its breakaway South Ossetia region had agreed to a Russian-mediated ceasefire that provided for Russian "peacekeepe...

In his 2013 State of the Union Address, President Obama stated that the United States would "engage Russia to seek further reduction in our nuclear...

Russia continues to maintain a low profile in Northeast Asia (NEA), despite new efforts made by the Russian government to move the centre of gravit...

Transition from one millennium to another is not just a calendar date, but rather a complex historical process of qualitative changes in the develo...

Russia has undertaken several largely piecemeal and halting efforts to revamp the armed forces it inherited from the Soviet Union. In 2007, near th...

This book covers all of the various fighter aircraft designed and employed by Russian forces during the years 1920-1941.

Russia launched the war against Georgia in August 2008 for highly valued strategic and geopolitical objectives, which included de facto annexation ...

Russian Negotiating Strategy Analytic Case Studies From Salt & Start

Increasingly, the armed forces have a vision of security as emphasising hard rather than soft security, a view which has come to the forefront in M...

From summer 1941, some 100,000 Russians served in the German Wehrmacht, mostly as so called Schutzmannschaften under the command of the German Poli...

Saint John became a gateway to what is now Canada in the early 1600s, and Fort La Tour, built in 1632, was one of the three main forts of Acadie. I...

A story of sacrifice and heroism, Sane in Damascus tells the compelling and engaging tale of Amnon Sharon, an officer in the Israel Defense Forces ...

Eugen Sänger's proposed manned, bi-fuel, liquid rocket-powered orbital bomber was truly mid-1940s high tech. The world's first intercontinental bom...

This book covers the design and construction of the two well-known SōryÅ" and HiryÅ" carriers, and the lesser-known ships of the UnryÅ" class, and...

While initally labeled as a troublesome aircraft, the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver went on to be noted for striking more Japanese targets than any other ...

The Douglas Dauntless was the US Navy's frontline dive-bomber in the early days of WWII. Even after the larger and more powerful Helldiver joined t...

This book covers the primary armored fighting vehicle of the Panzer-Grenadiers, the SchÃ"tzenpanzerwagen.

During the last decades of the 1800s and the first decade of the 1900s, some of the most elegant and colorful military service caps (schirmmützen) ...

This book presents, in words and pictures, the history of the Schutzstaffeln from their formation as escort aircraft, to their being renamed Schlac...

Information technology has become pervasive in every way, from our phones and other small devices to our enterprise networks to the infrastructure ...

Among the different Luftwaffe units that formed the Legion Condor, one in particular stands out for its important Naval Air contribution: the Aufkl...

Ballistic missile defense (BMD) has been a key national security priority for some time, even though such interest has been ongoing since the end o...

The B-24 Liberatorâ€equipped organization that evolved from its original 2nd Bomb Wing status to a Divisional level commenced operations out of Eas...

This is the comprehensive story of some of the most radical attack aircraft ever designed to operate from an aircraft carrier. These incredible pro...

The P1101 was Messerschmitts second jet aircraft after the Me 262. Designed as a fighter, the test version of this type was to serve as an experime...

This new book covers the great variety of secret and largely unknown German missile programs: GUIDED MISSILES: Ruhrstahl/Kramer X1 "Fritz-X", Hensc...

Historically, the U.S. military's Special Operations Forces (SOF) have had primary responsibility for training, advising and assisting foreign mili...

The United States is relying heavily on private firms to supply a wide variety of services in Iraq, including security. Based on the information av...