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The U.S. Government Printing Office is pleased to offer for sale the publications of the National Defense University Press (NDU Press). NDU Press publishes books, policy briefs, occasional papers, monographs and special reports on national security strategy, defense policy, national military strategy, regional security affairs, and global strategic problems. These publications reflect the output of NDU research and academic programs as well as contributions by outside analysts and experts. NDU Press also produces Joint Force Quarterly, a professional military journal published by NDU since 1993 for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. New Publications from NDU PressPlease check this page regularly for more new titles from NDU Press.
Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Center for Technology and National Security Policy Description: Richard L. Kugler, one of the Nation's most experienced and foremost practitioners of the critical art of national security policy analysis, encapsulates his more than three decades of experience in this unique book. He virtually establishes and defines national security policy analysis as a distinct discipline, breaking it down into three major components-strategic evaluation, systems analysis, and operations research. He applies the latest methods of each of these fields to real world, 21st century examples and the daunting challenges facing the United States in today's global environment. Year/Pages: 2006: 658 p.; ill.
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$55.00
Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Center for Technology and National Security Policy Description: The unstoppable spread of information networking and know-how has given rise to the need for a new edge-one that utilizes but transcends networks-by developing people, teams, and decision making methods that convert information into better choices and outcomes. We call this new edge battle-wisdom. This authoritative new book examines: The cognitive demands of networked warfare, Defeating networked adversaries, Integrating Intuition and reasoning in action, Creating a battle-wise force, and much more. Year/Pages: 2006: 192 p.; ill.
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$15.00
Subscribe to NDU's Flagship Joint Military and Security Studies Journal!
Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ), published by the National Defense University Press and the Institute for National Security Studies for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is the Chairman's flagship joint military and security studies journal, designed to inform members of the U.S. Armed Forces, allies, and other partners about:
JFQ’s aim is to help transform America's military and security apparatus to better meet tomorrow's challenges while protecting freedom today. Each issue of JFQ typically contains the Chairman’s Word, several book reviews and other informative departments, and a broad selection of the best security and military research papers and essays available. The Forum section provides several essays on a key security or defense topic, including exclusive interviews with senior national and international leaders. The Interagency Dialog section provides an avenue for discourse among security professionals across Government agency lines, while the Recall series presents exceptional historical research on a wide variety of military and diplomatic topics. Only $20 a year for four issues. List ID JFQ
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$20.00
Important Regional Studies:Middle East
Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University Description: Explores the implications of water distribution for stability in the Tigris-Euphrates basin. Examines patterns of water usage, relations between Turkey and its neighbors, and the impact of Turkey's plans to complete an ambitious national water project. L.C. card 98-54666. Year/Pages: 1999: 67 p.; ill.
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$9.00
Khomeini's Incorporation of the Iranian Military Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: McNair Paper 48. In the context of Khomeini's incorporations of the Iranian Military this monograph discusses: the history of the Iranian revolution; pre-revolutionary Iran; the Shah's departure; purge of the monarchists; ideological purge; and the Iran-Iraq War. Includes a chronology of selected events and a bibliography. Year/Pages: 1996: 111 p.; ill. Price: $7.50 Reassessing the Implicating of a Nuclear Armed Iran Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: McNair Paper No. 69. Examines the progress Iran has made to toward acquisition of nuclear weapons-related technology. Year/Pages: 2005: 100 p.
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$2.25
Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: Edited by Richard D. Sokolsky. Date on the Internet edition: February 2003. Includes an introduction and sections on: United States Interests and Objectives; Gulf Security Perceptions and Strategies; The Regional Military Balance; United States Defense Strategy and Force Planning; The Role of Outside Powers; and Policy Implifications and Recommendations. NDU ISBN 1-57906-062-5. Year/Pages: 2003: 176 p.; ill. Price: $6.00 AsiaExplaining and Influencing Chinese Arms Transfers Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University Description: McNair Paper No. 36. Addresses the factors motivating Chinese conventional arms sales and speculates on the means to influence them. Describes the history of People's Republic of China arms exports, then examines various demand- and supply-side reasons for these transfers. Identifies recurring problems in the global arms trade that put this study of China's arms trade into perspective. Year/Pages: 1995: 69 p. Price: $4.75 Korea on the Brink: From the "12/12 Incident" to the Kwangju Uprising, 1979-1980 Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University Description: Includes a foreword by Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Presents insights into the sensitive role that General John A. Wickham, the senior American military commander in Korea from 1979 to 1982, played during a period of politico-military intrigue and great danger to United States security interests. L.C. card 99-16996. Year/Pages: 1999: 261 p.; ill. Price: $22.00
Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: McNair Paper No. 51. Addresses the future roles and interests of the four major Asia-Pacific powers, the United States, Japan, China, and Russia, and how their policies will affect security in Northest Asia, specifically, in the Korean Peninsula. Year/Pages: 1996: 77 p.; ill. Price: $2.00 Multilateral Activities in South East Asia: The 1995 Pacific Symposium Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: Edited by Michael W. Everett and Mary A. Sommerville. Includes papers presented at the 1995 Pacific Symposium sponsored by the National Defense University. Reflects the views of many Asia-Pacific nations regarding the rise of multilateralism in South East Asia. Presents papers on the five subtopics of the symposium: the South East Asia Perspective; the South East Asia Environment, View from the Peripheral Nations; AFTA (ASEAN Free Trade Area), APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation), and the WTO (World Trade Organization): How Do They Fit Together?; How Much and What Kind of Multilateralism?; and A Look Toward the Future. Focuses on the importance of marketing among Pacific nations. Year/Pages: 1995: 285 p. Price: $17.00 Oil for the Lamps of China: Beijing's 21st Century Search for Energy Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University Description: McNair Paper 67. Addresses Chinese energy dependence and future policy options. Reviews Beijing's current energy situation. Discusses the government organizations that still dominate the energy sector. Reviews China's dominant coal industry, current oil production and imports, and natural gas sector. Year/Pages: 2003: 105 p.; ill. Price: $10.50 People's Liberation Army and China in Transition Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies, Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs Description: Offers fresh and divergent assessments of major trends in Chinese society, national security policy, and military affairs. Examines leadership shifts underway in the People's Liberation Army and how the Chinese armed forces are coping with dramatic changes in economic and social life, the Chinese Communist Party's search for relevance, developments in the global security environment, and the revolution in military affairs. Year/Pages: 2003: 360 p.; ill.
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$7.50
Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: McNair Paper No. 59. Examines the relationship of intentions and capabilities in the information age, using China as a case in point. Hypothesizes that although power remains important in world politics, globalization has transformed its character, correlates, and consequences: Power now depends on freedom. Year/Pages: 1998: 83 p.
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$3.00
Europe
Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: McNair Paper No. 55. Examines the early history of United States-Ukraine relations over the nuclear weapons issue. Presents both the history of a 2-year period, 1992-1994, and posits a number of explanations as to why things developed the way they did. Establishes a framework of this important period from which scholars can further proceed. Item 0378-H-05. Year/Pages: 1996: 91 p.; map. Price: $2.00
Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: McNair Paper No. 66. Chronicles the development of the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP). Assesses its durability and driving political motivations. Demystifies the functioning of ESDP. Advances a number of sound recommendations for United States policymakers about handling ESDP. Year/Pages: 2002: 100 p. Price: $3.00 Mitterand Legacy and the Future of French Security Policy Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: McNair Paper 43. Discusses the background, concepts and doctrine, military trends, and institutional developments of the Mitterand legacy. Year/Pages: 1995: 71 p.; ill. Price: $4.25 NATO Enlargement and Central Europe: A Study in Civil-Military Relations Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: Covers the transition from socialist to democratic political principles in Central Europe. Recounts the political history of four countries--Poland, Hungary, the Czeck Republic, and Slovakia--since the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. Seeks to explain why these nations are striving to meet the criteria for inclusion in a NATO enlargement program. L.C. card 96-39236. Item 0378-H-01. Year/Pages: 1996: 333 p.; ill. Price: $22.00 NATO From Berlin to Bosnia: Trans-Atlantic Security in Transition Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: McNair Paper No. 35. Discusses the changing role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the first five years following the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Warsaw Pact in 1989. Includes sections on: the breakup of the former Yugoslavia; questions about which countries should belong to NATO; notes; and a bibliography. Item 415-D-06. Year/Pages: 1995: 53 p. Price: $4.00 NATO's Future: Beyond Collective Defense Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: McNair Paper No. 46. Assesses the current state of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Suggests a package of political measures and institutional reforms that could be included in a new transatlantic bargain designed to revitalize the alliance and reform the organization. Year/Pages: 1995: 81 p. Price: $1.90 Trouble in Paradise? Europe in the 21st Century Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: McNair Paper No. 49. Argues that there is a series of crises converging on post-Cold War Europe that threaten its stability and that need to be addressed by European policy makers and taken into account by Americans. Year/Pages: 1996: 83 p.
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$4.75
Latin America
Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: McNair Paper 53. Explores the complex nexus of security issues that the governments of Latin America and the indigenous communities of the region face at the end of the 20th century. Year/Pages: 1996: 100 p.; ill. Price: $2.00 Key Policy Studies on Weapons of Mass Destruction
Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University Description: Edited by Hans Binnendijk and James Goodby. Presents summaries of remarks made at a series of nine discussions on the theme of "Managing and Transforming Nuclear Deterrence," sponsored by the Institute for National Strategic Studies. Focuses on the relationship of the United States and Russia in light of this topic. Item 0378-H-01. Year/Pages: 1997: 81 p. Price: $2.00 Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Center for Counterproliferation Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Description: Assesses the rationale and requirements for United States nuclear weapons, and the infrastructure and people that are critical to their sustainment, in the current and future security environment. Promotes greater understanding of the issues and the measures that will be necessary to sustain deterrence in an uncertain future. Year/Pages: 1998: 264 p.; ill. Price: $15.00 Verifying Nonproliferation Treaties: Obligation, Process, and Sovereignty Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: Examines two issues of national security policy: stemming the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; and verifying international nonproliferation agreements. Describes the forces that shape the ways in which negotiators address the question of establishing and maintaining confidence among signatories to treaties limiting nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and reducing the size of conventional forces. Explains how the chance events of the day intertwine with substantive developments in treaty negotiations and implementation. Item 0378-H-01. Year/Pages: 1995: 167 p.
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Weapons of Mass Destruction: New Perspectives on Counterproliferation Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies, Center for Counterproliferation Research Description: Edited by Stuart E. Johnson and William E. Lewis. Provides information from a symposium which addressed the challenges to United States national security and international stability posed by the spread of weapons of mass destruction. Covers nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons; and missiles as a means of delivery. In this book "weapons of mass destruction" is often abbreviated WMD. Year/Pages: 1995: 261 p.; ill. Price: $14.00 New Views on Military PolicyChairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Strategy Essay Competition: Essays 2001 Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: By Steven M. Barney, et al. Presents the winning entries in the 20th annual Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Strategy Essay Competition. Represents students of the service colleges as well as the constituent colleges of the National Defense University. Previously listed incorrectly under ISBN 1-16-066535-3. Year/Pages: 2001: 87 p.; ill. Price: $7.00 Clausewitzian Friction and Future War Revised Edition Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: McNair Paper 68. Examines the question of whether Clausewitzian friction would succumb to the changes in leading-edge warfare that may lie ahead, or whether such impediments reflect more enduring aspects of war that technology can only affect marginally. Clausewitzian friction refers to the theory by Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) that reality exerts a kind of friction on ideas and intentions in war. This term is commonly associated with the diverse difficulties and impediments to the effective use of military force. Includes footnotes and an index. Year/Pages: 2004: 133 p.; revised ed. Price: $11.00 Command, Control, and the Common Defense Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies, Directorate of Advanced Concepts, Technologies, and Information Strategies Description: Incorrect ISBN number. Book has 0-16-053377-1. Provides a historical perspective on a contemporary problem. Deals with the problems embodied in the tradition of service separatism in the American military establishment. Discusses the elements contributing to separate service identities and how these elements have affected interservice relationships. Addresses the technological choices made in modernizing the command and control systems used by the armed forces of the United States. L.C. card 96-44766. Item 0378-H-01. Year/Pages: 1996: 377 p.; ill. revised ed. Price: $10.00
Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: By David C. Gompert, et al. Addresses the problem of the growing disparity in combat capability between European and United States forces. Lays out a multi tiered strategy for its solution which is specific and practical, including processes and procedures for implementation. Year/Pages: 1999: 104 p. Price: $2.00
Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: McNair Paper No. 50. Explores the mobilization efforts of the United States during World War 2. Claims that the production of munitions could have been much greater if inefficiency and lack of preparation had not hindered the mobilization. Appendixes include tables of munitions production and listing of war agencies. Year/Pages: 1996: 167 p.; ill. Price: $12.00
Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: McNair Paper 57. Argues that the demands placed by military officers on the provisions of the Dayton agreement reflect a steady increase in the influence of military officers in crafting defense policy, rather than the recognition of any lessons learned in Somalia or Haiti. Year/Pages: 1997: 119 p.
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$3.00
Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: 2015: Power and Progress. Edited by Patrick M. Cronin. Looks ahead to the year 2015 and beyond. Seeks to understand how the American armed forces might contribute better to the nation's future security. Tries to conceptualize how a transformed world situation twenty years from now could affect United States security. Describes the most plausible changes likety to develop. Year/Pages: 1996: 173 p.; ill. Price: $21.00 Revenge of the Melians: Asymmetric Threats and the Next QDR Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies Description: McNair Paper No. 62. Produced by the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) 2001 Working Group. Assesses the nation's future security environment to the year 2025. Makes a unique contribution to the literature on asymmetric threats by providing a conceptual framework for thinking about threats. Year/Pages: 2000: 116 p. Price: $3.80 Classic ReprintsPublisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University Description: By the Right Honourable Sir Halford J. Mackinder, with a new introduction by Stephen V. Mladineo. Demonstrates the strategic effect of geography on the relations among nations. L.C. card 96-23385. Item 378-H-08. Year/Pages: 1942: 239 p.; ill. 1996-repr. Price: $15.00 [ Top ]
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