Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: james wirtz

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  • THE U.S. NAVY AND THE RISE OF GREAT POWER COMPETITION
    JAMES J. WIRTZ / JEFFREY E. KLINE / JAMES A. RUSSELL
    This volume describes how technological and geo-political trends are rapidly transforming maritime affairs. A mix of original and previously published material, this volume describes how the 21st-century great power competition is changing the face of naval operations in general, and U.S. Navy operations in the Western Pacific in particular. The rise of an assertive China and i...

    $1,240.00

  • WAR, PEACE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
    COLIN GRAY / JAMES J. WIRTZ
    This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the strategic history of the past two centuries, showing how those 200 years were shaped and reshaped extensively by war. The book takes a broad view of what was relevant to the causes, courses and consequences of conflict. The volume provides students with a strong grounding in the contribution of war to the development of...

    $1,460.00

  • STRATEGIC DENIAL AND DECEPTION
    JAMES WIRTZ
    Does foreign denial and deception threaten the interests of contemporary democracies? Strategic denial and deception (D&D) has emerged as a little understood challenge to security in general, and the intelligence community in particular. To gain advantages, adversaries seek to deny critical information about their own activities and capabilities, and to decieve foreign governme...

    $1,360.00

  • UNDERSTANDING INTELLIGENCE FAILURE
    JAMES WIRTZ
    This collection, comprising key works by James J. Wirtz, explains how different threat perceptions can lead to strategic surprise attack, intelligence failure and the failure of deterrence. This volume adopts a strategist’s view of the issue of surprise and intelligence failure by placing these phenomena in the context of conflict between strong and weak actors in world affairs...

    $1,340.00

  • NAVAL PEACEKEEPING AND HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS
    WIRTZ, JAMES J. / LARSEN, JEFFREY A.
    This edited volume explores stability, security, transition and reconstruction operations (SSTR), highlighting the challenges and opportunities they create for the US Navy. The book argues that SSTR operations are challenging because they create new missions and basing modes, and signal a return to traditional naval methods of operation. Mission accomplishment requires collabor...

    $1,320.00