Collection: Professional Readings

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...

¿́¿Armies are invariably accused of preparing to fight the last war. Nagl examines how armies learn during the course of conflicts for which they are initially unprepared in organisation, training, and mindset. He compares the development of counterinsurgency doctrine and practice in the Malayan ...

¿́¿Imagine a workplace where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude to the job every day. Imagine an environment in which people are truly connected to their work, to their colleagues, and to their customers. In this engrossing parable, a fictional manager is charged w...

¿́¿This book of essays explores the enduring and changing characteristics of war, conflict and intelligence in our modern era in an attempt to enlarge our thinking about two of the most pressing security challenges of our day: counterinsurgency and strategic surprise. One key issue tackled by thi...

¿́¿This classic text examines fundamental elements of military leadership: the ¿́¿process¿́¿ of leadership, the dynamic personal interactions between leader and followers, and the values that foster effective leadership. The essays of the sixth edition confront the criticisms that surround milita...

¿́¿This book focuses on legal issues arising in the course of hostilities between States, with an emphasis on the most recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The main themes considered are lawful and unlawful combatants, war crimes including command responsibility and defences, prohibited weap...

¿́¿Activity-based management (ABM) has already proven extremely valuable to manufacturers in helping them cut waste, improve quality, reduce cycle times, and get their products to market faster. Now revised and expanded, this indispensable resource illustrates how ABM can be applied to all types ...

¿́¿This work gives comprehensive coverage to the most notorious American war crime of the Vietnam War and the authors have strived to research facts and present them in an unemotional manner. Throughout the US and Vietnam, the authors have tracked down and interviewed survivors of the massacre, p...

¿́¿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 ...