This book outlines the strategic framework to guide the activities of participants in homeland security towards a common end. A safe and secure hom...

The U.S. insular areas of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and three Freely Ass...

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001, dramatically demonstrated the intelligence threats facing the Unite...

This book is a detailed study of the United States Marine Corps unit insignia in the Republic of Vietnam from the Marine Advisors in the early 1960...

The United States has long been a leader in maritime security, including in countering the threat of piracy. Since 2009, the United States has orga...

This book is an overview on "crew rotation" which is the practice of using more than one crew to operate a single ship. This practice has attracted...

Military health care professionals serve in a variety of settings, more diverse than is typically found in the civilian environment. The Military H...

This book explores America's national security strategy, which is focused on renewing American leadership so that we can more effectively advance o...

In February 2008, as part of its proposed FY2009 budget, the Navy submitted to Congress the FY2009 version of the annual 30-year shipbuilding plan,...

Alan Carey's new book, his fifth on USN and USMC bomber units of the Second World War, is the story of U.S. Navy Fleet Air Wing Seven (FAW-7) and t...

This book provides background information and presents potential issues for Congress concerning the Navy's ship force-structure goals and shipbuild...

Sailors in Forest Green is a detailed examination of the uniforms and equipment used by Navy personnel attached to the U.S. Marine Corps during Wor...

Sailors in Forest Green is a detailed examination of the uniforms and equipment used by Navy personnel attached to the U.S. Marine Corps during Wor...

Sailors in Forest Green is a detailed examination of the uniforms and equipment used by Navy personnel attached to the U.S. Marine Corps during Wor...

Sailors in Forest Green is a detailed examination of the uniforms and equipment used by Navy personnel attached to the U.S. Marine Corps during Wor...

Sailors in Forest Green is a detailed examination of the uniforms and equipment used by Navy personnel attached to the U.S. Marine Corps during Wor...

More than thirty years after their first publication, William T. Larkinss illustrated surveys of Navy and Marine Corps aircraft remain two of the m...

Even though the United States plans to reduce the number of warheads deployed on its long-range missiles and bombers, consistent with the terms of ...

This book is an overview of the U.S. nuclear stockpile and the issues relating to maintenance and replacement of warheads. Nuclear weapons will con...

The Bush Administration conducted a review of US nuclear weapons force posture during its first year in office. Although the review sought to adjus...

Nuclear weapons are an essential part of the nation's defence strategy. The National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) manages the nation's ...

The United States is concurrently pursuing the goals of reducing the size of its nuclear weapons force -- strategic and non-strategic, deployed and...

This book presents and discusses various economic policies in North America. Topics discussed include the Manhattan Project, the Apollo Program and...

This book explores conventional prompt global strike and long-range ballistic mission options. Prompt global strike (PGS) would allow the United St...

Public diplomacy is defined in different ways, but broadly it is a term used to describe a government's efforts to conduct foreign policy and promo...

The U.S. Secret Service has two missions: criminal investigations and protection. Criminal investigation activities, which have expanded since its ...

Since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, maritime security efforts have focused primarily on large commercial vessels, cargoes, and crew. ...

Border insecurity is not a new phenomenon. For more than 25 years, Congress has increased border security resources in response to this challenge o...

Special Operations Forces (SOF) are elite military units with special training and equipment that can infiltrate into hostile territory through lan...

This book examines current proposals in the 112th Congress relating to tax reform. The President and leading members of Congress have stated that f...

The conventional wisdom is that the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001 prompted a substantive change in U.S. immigration policy on visa issua...

This highly detailed reference book is for both novice and experienced collectors, and is focused on the World War II U.S.-made, fully machine-embr...

There has been a recent increase in the level of drug trafficking-related violence within and between the drug trafficking organisations in Mexico....

The final text of the proposed U.S.-Panama FTA incorporates specific amendments on key issues at the behest of congressional leadership. The most s...

With the beginning of the Operation Barbarossa more than 100,000 Ukrainians volunteered for the fight against Stalin and communismn. These voluntee...

At 31 years old, Major Cyrus Inches resolved to survive the Great War, and did so without losing his sense of humour, in spite of the tragedies he ...