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• Amphibious special operation : night attack on Porto Ercoletto, Tuscany, 2 June 1555 / Jacopo Pessina
• 1574 Siege of Leiden during the Eighty Years' War : attack by land, relief by sea / Samuel de Korte
• Amphibious Genesis : Thomas More Molyneux and the birth of amphibious doctrine / Andrew Young
• Delaware River Campaign of 1777 : an examinationof an eighteenth-century amphibious operation / James R. McIntyre
• Vera Cruz, 1847 / J. Overton
• Courting disaster : the battle of Santa Rosa Island, 8-9 October 1861 / Edward J. Hagerty
• Korea, 1871 : the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps in great power competition / Benjamin Armstrong
• Estonian amphibious operations in the Eastern Baltic, 1918-20 / Eric A. Sibul
• U.S. Marine Corps and Gallipoli / Angus Murray
• Ambiguous application : the study of amphibious warfare at the Marine Corps Schools, 1920-33 / Bruce Gudmundsson
• Operation Weserubung : early amphibious multidomain operations / James K. Greer
• Reich strikes back : German victory in the Dodecanese, October-November 1943 / Jeffrey Schultz

• Missing the mark : lessons in naval gunfire support at Tarawa / James P. McGrath III
• Soviet strategic attack and the tactical amphibious failure at Merküla in 1944 / Andrew Del Gaudio
• Learning the lessons of Port-en-Bessin, 1944 / John D. Salt
• German naval evacuations on the Eastern Front, 1943-45 / Gregory Liedtke
• Against all odds : Turkish amphibious operation in Cyprus, 20-23 July 1974 / Serhat Güvenç and Mesut Uyar
• Role of amphibious operations within the multidomain operational construct : background and considerations / Keith D. Dickson
• Future is amphibious : the role of naval special warfare in the great power competition / Sulakshana Komerath
• Uncertainty, Maskirovka, and militarism : Russian perspectives and amphibious assault potential in the arctic near future / Ellen A. Ahlness
• Naval strategy and the future of amphibious operations / B.A. Friedman
• United Kingdom's approach to amphibious operations : from the Cold War to the information age / Kevin Rowlands
• U.S. Marine Corps and advanced base operations : past, present, and future / Walker D. Mills
• Conclusion / B.A. Friedman and Timothy Heck

"The basis for On Contested Shores has been under construction since before the Commandant released the planning guidance. As career Marine officers, who spent very little time at sea, the editors have long been concerned that the Marine Corps was becoming too land-centric, heavily reflecting the characteristics of a second land army. This has been true since 1991, when the Marine Corps participated in a land campaign in Iraq, and especially since 2001, when it participated in three land campaigns: Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. To fight these battles, the Marine Corps became heavier, upgraded equipment, and generally focused on counterinsurgency tactics vice amphibious warfare. While the Marine Corps always steps up to fight alongside the U.S. Army, its purpose is naval campaigns fought alongside the U.S. Navy. This book is in part a way to help figure out how to regain and maintain the skills necessary for maritime operations"-- Provided by publisher

• Preface / by George P. Shultz
• A bet portrayed as a certainty : reassessing the added deterrent value of nuclear weapons / by Benoît Pelopidas
• The nuclear dilemma : constants and variables in American strategic policies / by James E. Goodby
• A realist's rationale for a world without nuclear weapons / by Steven Pifer
• The debate over disarmament within NATO / by Isabelle Williams and Steven P. Andreasen
• Russia, strategic stability, and nuclear weapons / by Pavel Podvig
• Comparing German and Polish post-Cold War nuclear policies : a convergence of European attitudes on nuclear disarmament and deterrence? / by Katarzyna Kubiak and Oliver Meier
• Utility of nuclear deterrence in the Middle East / by Shlomo Brom
• Proliferation and deterrence beyond the nuclear tipping point in the Middle East / by Karim Haggag
• A Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction : moving beyond the stalemate / by Peter Jones
• Decoupling nuclear weapons and deterrence in South Asia / by S. Paul Kapur
• Getting to the table : prospects and challenges for arms control with China / by Michael S. Gerson
• China and global nuclear arms control and disarmament / by Li Bin
• Korea : will South Korea's non-nuclear strategy defeat North Korea's nuclear breakout? / by Peter Hayes and Chung-In Moon
• Japan's disarmament dilemma : between the moral commitment and the security reality / by Nobumasa Akiyama
• Creating the conditions for a world without nuclear weapons / by James E. Goodby and Steven Pifer.

The Nuclear Dilemma in a Changing World The War That Must Never Be Fought explores how nuclear deterrence should be understood seventy years after the first nuclear tests. These essays, edited by George P. Shultz and James E. Goodby, challenge outdated deterrence theories and show a clear need to re-examine notions from the Cold War that no longer fit present circumstances. They argue that a world without nuclear weapons is a desirable objective that is in the national security interests of the United States. The contributors examine nuclear deterrence from the vantage points of nations in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, all of which have some form of security relationship with the United States, either cooperative or competitive. They explain, for instance, why agreement by Poland and Germany on nuclear deterrence and nuclear arms control is necessary if Europeans are to be proactive in reducing nuclear weapons in Europe and. They explore the strategic views, and resulting nuclear policies, of India and Pakistan to determine the possibilities for decoupling nuclear weapons from deterrence. They also tell why successfully reducing and ultimately eliminating the nuclear threat must be based on a combination of regional and global joint enterprises. The authors conclude with suggestions that might lead to a successful joint enterprise on security among the world's nuclear powers.
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Concern about the threat posed by nuclear weapons has preoccupied the United States and presidents of the United States since the beginning of the nuclear era. Nuclear Security draws from papers presented at the 2013 meeting of the American Nuclear Society examining worldwide efforts to control nuclear weapons and ensure the safety of the nuclear enterprise of weapons and reactors against catastrophic accidents. The distinguished contributors, all known for their long-standing interest in getting better control of the threats posed by nuclear weapons and reactors, discuss what we can learn from past successes and failures and attempt to identify the key ingredients for a road ahead that can lead us toward a world free of nuclear weapons. The authors review historical efforts to deal with the challenge of nuclear weapons, with a focus on the momentous arms control negotiations between U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. They offer specific recommendations for reducing risks that should be adopted by the nuclear enterprise, both military and civilian, in the United States and abroad. Since the risks posed by the nuclear enterprise are so high, they conclude, no reasonable effort should be spared to ensure safety and security.
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• Tokyo Language Program : U.S. Embassy, Japan, pre-1941
• Fourth Army Intelligence School : Presidio of San Francisco, 1941-1942
• Military Intelligence Service Language School : Camp Savage and Fort Snelling, 1942-1946
• U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Japanese language schools : Berkeley, Boulder, Stillwater, 1941-1946
• U.S. Army Language School : Presidio of Monterey, 1947-1963
• Defense Language Institute : West Coast/East Coast, 1963-1974
• Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center : Presidio of Monterey, 1974 -2001
• Global language training, 2001-present.

During the Cold War, superpowers amassed nuclear arsenals containing the explosive power of one million Hiroshimas. The Soviet Union secretly plotted to create the "Dead Hand, " a system designed to launch an automatic retaliatory nuclear strike on the United States, and developed a fearsome biological warfare machine. President Ronald Reagan, hoping to awe the Soviets into submission, pushed hard for the creation of space-based missile defenses. This, the first full account of how the arms race finally ended, provides an unprecedented look at the inner motives and secret decisions of each side. Drawing on top-secret documents from deep inside the Kremlin, memoirs, and interviews in both Russia and the United States, David Hoffman introduces the scientists, soldiers, diplomats, and spies who saw the world sliding toward disaster and tells the gripping story of how Reagan, Gorbachev, and many others struggled to bring the madness to an end.--From publisher description.

"From several different perspectives, the NATO Defense College forum paper explores the challenges that counterinsurgency operations pose for NATO."--P. 10.

• Foreword / Michael C. McMahon
• Cyber-herding: exploiting Islamic extremists' use of the Internet / David B. Moon
• Limitations of the National Defense Union: why the DoD-DI relationship is best left at home / Joe McGraw
• Conventionalization of special operations and its impact on innovation / Michael P. Sullivan
• Counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan, using United States special forces to remain village focused / Matthew D. Coburn
• Conventional forces in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom III / Ronald Beadenkopf
• Educating broadly: rethinking nontraditional special operations forces education / Guillaume N. Beauperes
• International crisis information network / Basil J. Catanzaro & Brian S. Horine
• Radical Islam's legitimization of suicide terror / Duane L. Gordin
• Using money for counterinsurgency operations / Leonard J. DeFrancisci
• Enabling economic stabilization / Michael Zinno.

• Foreword Prologue What and Why Is a Guerrilla Characteristics of Guerrilla Movements and Operations Approaches to Counterguerrilla Warfare The Situation and the Terrain Know Thine Enemy: Estimate of the Enemy Situation Know Thyself: Analysis of Friendly Forces The Mission Target-The Guerrilla Fool 'Em Find 'Em Fight 'Em Target-The Civilian Target-The Nation
• Appendix I. Patrol SOP for Counterguerrilla Operations
• Appendix II. Suggested Special Warfare Battalion
• Appendix III. Recommended Reading.
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This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era by two officers-one from the Philippines and the other from America-who fought as guerrillas against the Japanese occupation and went on to defeat the Huk rebellion after World War II. Unlike many other accounts of counterinsurgency operations that focus on theoretical principles and their tactical applications, the authors examine the means to assess the strengths and weaknesses of insurgencies. An enduring contribution of this book is its emphasis on the importance of intelligence in combating insurgent movements. With a new foreword prepared by Kalev Sepp.
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The mortal danger of nuclear weapons is unique in its terrifying potential for devastation on an unprecedented and unimaginable scale. In this book, Sidney D. Drell and James E. Goodby-each with more than twenty years' experience in national security issues both in public and private capacities-review the main policy issues surrounding nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. They address the specific actions that the community of nations-with American leadership-should take to confront and turn back the nuclear danger that imperils humanity. The nuclear genie, say the authors, cannot be put back in the bottle. Our most urgent task as a nation today is to successfully manage, contain, and reduce the grave danger of nuclear weapons-whether in the hands of adversaries or friendly states. This book hopes to stimulate active public dialogue on this important subject.
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An encyclopedia of articles examining guerrilla warfare throughout the world, focusing on military tactics utilized by minority groups within a state or indigenous population to oppose the ruling government or foreign occupying forces.