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Arms control --- Treaties, International --- International Law --- Law, Politics & Government --- Security, International --- Arms race --- Disarmament --- Military readiness

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For millennia, policymakers and statesmen have grappled with questions about the concept of victory in war. How long does it take to achieve victory and how do we know when victory is achieved? And, as highlighted by the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq, is it possible to win a war and yet lose the peace? The premise of this book is that we do not have a modern theory about victory and that, in order to answer these questions, we need one. This book explores historical definitions of victory, how victory has evolved, and how it has been implemented in war. It also subsequently develops the intellectual foundations of a modern pre-theory of victory, and discusses the military instruments necessary for victory in the twenty-first century using case studies that include US military intervention in Panama, Libya, Persian Gulf War, Bosnia/Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

Military policy. --- Defense policy --- Military readiness --- Military history --- Sociology, Military --- War --- National security --- Political aspects --- United States --- History, Military --- Law --- General and Others

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Part of a series examining the technology competition between security organizations and terrorist organizations, this report focuses on understanding how terrorist groups make technology choices and consequently how the United States can discourage their adoption of advanced conventional weapons. Five types of advanced conventional weapons are identified that could provide terrorists with a new and qualitatively different weapon capability: sniper rifles, squad-level weapons, antitank missiles, large limpet mines, and mortar systems. Two key methods of limiting the threat from these systems

Arms control. --- Electronic books. --- Terrorism. --- Weapons systems. --- Weapons systems --- Arms control --- Terrorism --- Armies --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Prevention --- Prevention. --- Anti-terrorism --- Antiterrorism --- Counter-terrorism --- Counterterrorism --- Weapon systems --- Security, International --- Arms race --- Disarmament --- Military readiness --- Engineering systems --- Military weapons

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This work advances the proposition that traditional ‘top down’ politics is being challenged by grass-roots, civil society based ‘bottom up’ politics in that most sensitive areas, the national security/arms control dichotomy. The book uses the example of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), that has succeeded in reversing or altering the national policies on landmines in over 130 countries globally. The book cites the efforts of what the author calls ‘moral entrepreneurs’, that is people who have adopted the risk-taking characteristics of business and social leaders to bring this state of affairs about. As a new polity that challenges old assumptions about the state’s preserve in matters of national security and moral force, the ICBL has set the benchmark for a fresh, twenty-first century paradigm in arms control.

Land mines (International law) --- Arms control --- Land mine victims. --- International law --- Landmine victims --- War victims --- Security, International --- Arms race --- Disarmament --- Military readiness --- Citizen participation. --- International Campaign to Ban Landmines. --- ICBL --- Kāpāyin-i Jahānī-i Mubārazah ʻAlayh-i Māyin --- کامپاين جهانى مبارزه عليه ماين

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Vauban under Siege is the first systematic comparison of the theory of Vaubanian siegecraft with its reality. It places Vauban’s siege accomplishments back into their broader context, highlighting his continuation of the quest for ever-greater efficiency pursued by a century of military engineers. Based on a comprehensive inventory of sieges in the War of the Spanish Succession, it describes how both French and Allied military officers rejected this efficiency paradigm and embraced instead vigorous brute force tactics. Ignoring their over-worked and under-compensated engineers at key points, generals chose to save precious campaign time by sacrificing their soldiers’ lives in siege after siege. This early modern cult of the offensive has influenced the Western way of war ever since. Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Book Award of the Society for Military History.

Militaire techniek. --- Spaanse successieoorlog. --- Verdedigingswerken. --- Vestingwerken. --- Siege warfare --- Attack and defense (Military science) --- Fortifications, Attack and defense of --- Fortress warfare --- Siege craft --- Siegecraft --- Military art and science --- Military engineering --- Fortification --- Intrenchments --- History --- Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre de, --- De Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre, --- Le Prestre de Vauban, Sébastien, --- Prestre de Vauban, Sébastien Le, --- Vauban, --- M., --- Spaanse Nederlanden. --- Manpower --- Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714. --- War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714 --- Man power --- Labor supply --- Military readiness --- Polemology --- History of Europe --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Vauban, Sebastien Le Prestre de,