Collection: Professional Readings

¿́¿Abrashoff offers this fascinating tale of top-down change for anyone trying to navigate today¿́¿s uncertain business seas. When Captain Abrashoff took over as commander of USS Benfold, a ship armed with every cutting-edge system available, it was like a business that had all the latest technol...

Previous information security references do not address the gulf between general security awareness and the specific technical steps that need to be taken to protect information assets. This book fills this void by explaining security via a holistic approach that considers both the overall securi...

¿́¿The purpose of the military¿́¿s transformation effort is to ensure that it has the capabilities it needs to defend the United States against a spectrum of unknown and uncertain threats. Such transformation requires a reassessment of both the military¿́¿s current manpower and personnel policies...

¿́¿Avolio approaches the concept of leadership as a system, not only as a process or a person. His framework is based on what he defines as the full range of leadership: people, timing, resources, the context of interaction, and the expected results in performance and motivation.¿́¿ -- SAF Profes...

¿́¿The book focuses on the vital role of information and communications, and makes a cogent case for the primary importance of information in modern warfare by showing the evolving role of both in war, as well as the evolving nature of war, before zeroing in on the present. The author premises th...

¿́¿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 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...

¿́¿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 ...