Collection: Recommended Reading (14)

¿́¿Military Orientalism argues against the idea that culture dictates the strategy of war. Culture is powerful, Patrick Porter asserts, but it encompasses an ambiguous repertoire of ideas rather than a clear code of action. To divide the world into Western, Asiatic, or Islamic ways of war is a mi...

¿́¿Considering only military change that has major implications for organizational strategy and structure, such as the interwar shift from a light infantry to an amphibious warfare role by the U.S. Marine Corps, these 12 essays consider case studies of cultural, political, and technological reaso...

This fully revised and updated edition of Donald Weatherbee's widely praised text offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to the international relations of contemporary Southeast Asia. The author analyzes the Southeast Asian states' efforts to adaptto a regional international environment th...