Collection: Professional Readings

¿́¿Coaching and mentoring are now mainstream activities in organisations. This unique book focuses on the common ground between coaching and mentoring, offering nine key principles for effective practice. The key principles for effective coaching and mentoring are covered and some useful tools an...

¿́¿A timely book that dwells on ethical issues for military operations, including peace support and peace making operations. The comprehensive discussion on ethics also includes a treatment on strategic and operational issues, covered by key military thinkers and professionals of the day.¿́¿-- SA...

¿́¿US experts present case studies and best practices of US resource management from the perspectives of all three services and defence contractors in this wide ranging study. The authors present a detailed discussion, from a multi-functional view, of the ins and outs of US military program manag...

This is the first academic analysis of the role of embedded media in the 2003 Iraq War, providing a concise history of US military public affairs management since Vietnam.

¿́¿1,826 days is the length of time that have passed since the September 11,2001 to the date of the publication of this book. This is a clearly presented illustrated account of the security plans and programmes developed in Singapore in the fi ve years since 9/11. The multi-pronged approach to e...

¿́¿This book examines how the military must evolve to face changing times, technology, and adversaries. From limited wars to possible large scale invasions of Syria or Iran ¿́¿ or a major military stand-down with North Korea ¿́¿ Beyond Shock and Awe is a fresh, provocative look at America¿́¿s mil...

¿́¿Is medical ethics in times of armed conflict identical to medical ethics in times of peace, as the World Medical Association declares? In Bioethics and Armed Conflict, the first comprehensive study of medical ethics in conventional, unconventional, and low-intensity war, Michael Gross examines...

Informed by access to still-secret documents, interviews with top field commanders, and a review of the military's own internal after-action reports, this is the definitive chronicle of America's invasion and occupation of Iraq--a conflict that could not be lost but one that the United States fai...