Collection: Professional Readings

¿́¿How do organisations move beyond merely acknowledging that ¿́¿human capital¿́¿ is their greatest asset, and actually implement practices that create true benefits for both employees and the organisations? In this book, Edward Lawler shows how companies can ¿́¿treat people right¿́¿ by doing mor...

¿́¿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 book tells the full story of Britain¿́¿s undeclared war against Indonesia, including an operational study of the conflict and strategies utilised by the opposing parties. The Indonesian guerrilla units were led and stiffened by armed forces regulars but still performed poorly against the ...

¿́¿This book tells the full story of Britain¿́¿s undeclared war against Indonesia, including an operational study of the conflict and strategies utilised by the opposing parties. The Indonesian guerrilla units were led and stiffened by armed forces regulars but still performed poorly against the ...

"Written by renowned scholar and former policymaker Joseph Nye, this text is a brief and penetrating introduction to the study of world politics. It deftly applies a combination of history and theory to evaluate conflict and cooperation among international actors, thus providing students a framew...

War no longer exists, writes General Sir Rupert Smith, powerfully reminding us that the clash of mass national armies - the system of war since Napoleon will never occur again. Instead, he argues in this timely book, that we must be prepared to adapt tactics to each conflict, or lose the ability ...

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.

¿́¿What makes for innovations in war-making? The answers of this careful study, based primarily on American military experiences this century, run refreshingly against intuition: innovation seems easier in peacetime than war, for the fog of the latter covers all; it is no harder during periods of...