Fostering security, stability, and democracy in neighbouring Mexico is seen by analysts to be in the U.S. national security and economic interest. ...

Iraq's neighbours have influenced events in Iraq since the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003, and developments in Iraq have had political, ...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

The United States maintains about 285 diplomatic facilities worldwide. Attacks on such facilities, and on U.S. diplomatic personnel, are not infreq...

The United States has exported special nuclear material, including enriched uranium, and source material such as natural uranium under nuclear co-o...

In 2015 No.3 Squadron Royal New Zealand Air Force celebrated 50 years of continuous helicopter operations since it reformed in 1965. Seek and Destr...

Sexual harassment is a form of unlawful discrimination that can jeopardise the military's combat readiness and mission accomplishment by weakening ...

This book examines how the Department of Defense and its Armed Services -- the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force (the Services) respond to Se...

Females have long been viewed as the primary victims of sexual assault but, based on survey data, RAND estimated that in 2014, about 9,000 to about...

This book documents the development and production of the M4A1 through its many variations, as well as its combat use around the globe. Produced by...

Volume 2 on the famed Sherman medium tank covers the welded-hull, radial-engine-equipped M4 and documents its development and production through it...

Powered by twin General Motors diesel engines, the M4A2 Sherman was the standard tank of the US Marine Corps during WWII. In such service, having a...

Powered by a massive Ford V-8 engine, the M4A3 Sherman was the standard tank of the US Army during the later stages of WWII, as well as the Korean ...

The M4A4, also known at the Sherman V, with its unusual 30-cylinder Multibank engine, was the type of Sherman most widely used by Commonwealth forc...

This comprehensive, full-color guide features dozens of images of slings from various cultures, both ancient and contemporary. Slings had great sig...

Urban geographic inquiry has for decades been biased towards a focus on larger cities and metropolitan areas, both in the developed and developing ...

The goal of disability insurance is to replace a portion of a worker's income should illness or disability prevent him or her from working. Individ...

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...

This book presents and discusses information on contemporary politics and economics of South and Central America. Topics discussed herein focus on ...

Since late 2008, relations between the United States and South Korea have been arguably at their best state in decades. By the middle of 2010, in t...

In this book, the authors have gathered and present topical research in the study of the economic, political and social issues facing South Korea t...