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Army Logistician, Professional Bulletin of United States Army Logistics

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Army Logistics Center

Description: Bimonthly periodical. Subscription price covers issues for 1 year. Subscription service begins with the first issue after the order is processed. Copies of the latest 3 issues are retained in stock for individual purchase. Single copy, $6.50; foreign single copy, $9.10. Provides timely and authoritative information on United States Army logistics plans, policies, doctrine, procedures, operations, and developments to the Active Army, Army National Guard, and United States Army Reserve. ALOG. File Code 2N. Item 322-C.

Price: $23.00 Add To Cart

At Cold War's End: United States Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991

Publisher: Central Intelligence Agency

Description: Edited by Benjamin B. Fischer. Prepared for a conference on "United States Intelligence and the End of the Cold War." Contains declassified CIA documents of intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe covering the years 1989-1991. Includes United States national Intelligence Estimates and other intelligence assessments. Previously listed incorrectly under ISBN 0-16-059059-0.

Year/Pages: 1999: 437 p.; ill.

Price: $44.00

Central Intelligence: Origin and Evolution

Publisher: Central Intelligence Agency, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA History Staff

Description: Edited by Michael Warner. Contains a collection of key documents which chronicle the role and growth of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1945 to 2000.

Year/Pages: 2001: 165 p.

Price: $6.00

Chairman 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

CIA and the Vietnam Policymakers: Three Episodes, 1962-1968

Publisher: Central Intelligence Agency, Center for the Study of Intelligence, History Staff

Description: Recently declassified study by a former CIA officer reviews the Intelligence Community's analytic performance during the Vietnam era. Focuses on the efforts of CIA analysts. Offers a candid view of the CIA's intelligence assessments concerning Vietnam during three episodes between 1962 and 1968 and the reactions of senior United States policymakers to those assessments.

Year/Pages: 1998: 177 p.; ill.

Price: $9.50

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

Conduct of the Persian Gulf Conflict: An Interim Report to Congress, July 1991

Publisher: Defense Dept.

Description: Prepared pursuant to Title 5, Persian Gulf Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-25). Reflects many of the preliminary impressions formed by the Department of Defense since the cessation of hostilities. Responds to 27 questions from Congress. Includes battle maps. On page between cover and title page: "CAVEAT: This interim report contains preliminary information subject to change as additional information is received."

Year/Pages: 1991: 269 p.; ill.

Price: $25.00

Decisive Force: Strategic Bombing in the Gulf War

Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program

Description: Discusses the strategic bombing by the United States Air Force in the Persian Gulf War. Item 0422-M-01.

Year/Pages: 1996: 87 p.; ill.

Price: $4.20 Add To Cart

Defending the West: The United States Air Force and European Security, 1946-1998

Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program

Description: Attempts to give the general reader some sense of the role the United States Air Force has played in Europe since the end of World War 2. Item 0422-M-01.

Year/Pages: 1999: 53 p.; ill.

Price: $1.70 Add To Cart

Defiant Again: Indigenous Peoples and Latin American Security

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

Democratic Ideals and Reality: A Study in the Politics of Reconstruction by the Right Honourable Sir Halford J. Mackinder

Publisher: 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

Development of the Base Force, 1989-1992

Publisher: Defense Dept., Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joint History Office

Description: Describes the events which led to the first major overhaul of United States military strategy since World War 2. Includes the basic elements of the Base Force Concept along with principal personalities and entities involved with its development, such as General Colin Powell and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Year/Pages: 1993: 66 p.

Price: $2.80

Directions for Defense: Report of the Commission on Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces

Publisher: Defense Dept., Commission on Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces

Description: Includes recommendations, grouped in terms of joint military operations, efficient and responsive support, and improved management and direction. Designed to improve joint military operations.

Year/Pages: 1995: 144 p.

Price: $7.20

Effects of Imports of Plastic Injection Molding Machines on the National Security, January 1989

Publisher: Commerce Dept., Bureau of Export Administration

Price: $14.50 Add To Cart

Ensuring Public Safety and National Security Under the Rule of Law: A Report to the American People on the Work of the FBI 1993-1998

Publisher: Justice Dept., Federal Bureau of Investigation

Description: Contains a report to the American People of the various activities and responsibilities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1993 to 1998.

Year/Pages: 1999: 91 p.

Price: $4.00 Add To Cart

9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

Publisher: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9-11 Commission)

Description: Official Government Edition. The 9/11 Commission Report. Thomas Kean, Chairman of the Commission. Provides a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. Also includes recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.

Year/Pages: 2004: 567 P.

Price: $13.25

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1945-1950, Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: State Department Publication 10316. Edited by C. Thomas Thorne, et al. One of a series of volumes on the foreign policy of the Truman administration. Also advertised with the subtitle: Intelligence and Foreign Policy. Includes high-level governmental plans, discussions, administrative decisions, and managerial actions that established institutions and procedures for the central coordination of intelligence collection and analysis and covert action. Documents the advice, actions, and initiatives of principals and groups in other departments and agencies, who helped to lay the foundations for the centralized intelligence bureaucracy. Item 1091-A.

Year/Pages: 1996: 1176 p.

Price: $62.00

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, V. 10, National Security Policy

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: State Department Publication 10921. General Editor: David S. Patterson. Documents United States national security policy during the Johnson administration.

Year/Pages: 2002: 828 p.

Price: $26.40 Add To Cart

Glossary: Defense Acquisition Acronyms and Terms, 2003

Publisher: Defense Dept., Defense Acquisition University, Center for Program Management

Description: 11th edition. Contains most acronyms, abbreviations, and terms commonly used in the weapon systems acquisition process within the Department of Defense (DOD) and defense industries. Focuses on terms with generic DOD application and a few service unique terms. Cover and spine titles read: Glossary of Defense Acquisition Acronyms & Terms.

Year/Pages: 2003: 192 p.

Price: $11.20 Add To Cart

Growing Global Migration and Its Implications for the United States

Publisher: Central Intelligence Agency

Description: NIE 2001-02D. National Intelligence Estimate. Contains the unclassified version of a new National Intelligence Estimate on the growing global movement of people and its implications for the United States. Follow-on study to "Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts".

Year/Pages: 2001: 44 p.; ill.

Price: $24.00

Growth in Medical Spending by the Department of Defense

Publisher: Congress, Congressional Budget Office

Description: A CBO Study. Examines reasons for the increase in spending on medical care by the Department of Defense from fiscal years 1998-2003. Also considers directions in future medical spending.

Year/Pages: 2003: 45 p.; ill.

Price: $2.60 Add To Cart

Homeland Security Act of 2002, Public Law 107-296

Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register

Description: Public Law 107-296. H.R. 5005. An Act to Establish the Department of Homeland Security, and for Other Purposes. Approved Nov. 25, 2002. Item 575.

Year/Pages: 2002: 86 p.

Price: $15.00 Add To Cart

Humanitarian Operations in Northern Iraq, 1991: With Marines in Operation Provide Comfort

Publisher: Defense Dept., Marine Corps, History and Museums Division

Description: United States Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991. Tells the story of more than 3,600 United States Marines who supported Operation Provide Comfort, an international relief effort in northern Iraq from 7 April to 15 July 1991. Focuses on Marine activities and contributions. Presents historical glimpses of the Kurds, modern Iraq, and non-Marine activities only to provide necessary background information. Defines Provide Comfort's place in the diplomatic history of the Middle East. Item 383-B.

Year/Pages: 1995: 135 p.; ill.

Price: $7.20 Add To Cart

Ideas and Weapons

Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program

Description: Explores something of the background of the contemporary air weapon. Attempts to distill from past experience in the development of air material those lessons which might be of help in formulating policies for exploiting the air weapons more successfully in the future. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1953. Air Force ISBN 0-912799-11-0. L.C. card 83-18967.

Year/Pages: 1953: 236 p.; ill. 1997-repr.

Price: $7.60 Add To Cart

Joint Force Quarterly: A Professional Military Journal

Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies

Description: Quarterly periodical. Subscription price covers issues for 1 year. Single copy, $15.00; foreign single copy, $21.00. Published for national security professionals in and out of the U.S. government to promote understanding of the integrated employment of land, sea, air, space, and special operations forces. This journal focuses on joint doctrine, coalition warfare, contingency planning, operations conducted by the unified commands, and joint force development. Published under the auspices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. File Code 2R. JFQ.

Price: $20.00 Add To Cart

Legacy in the Sand: The United States Army Armament, Munitions and Chemical Command in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Army Armament, Munitions and Chemical Command, Historical Office

Description: Provides a history of the command's activities in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 1990-1991, in the Persian Gulf. Includes sections on: prelude to war; deployment to the desert; production and procurement; logistics and logistics assistance representatives; ammunition; operations; conclusion; and glossary. Also contains black and white photographs.

Year/Pages: 1993: 240 p.; ill.

Price: $26.50

Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans

Publisher: Congress, Congressional Budget Office

Description: A CBO Study. Addresses the implications of the Bush Administration's defense plans for both resources and forces.

Year/Pages: 2003: 120 p.; ill.

Price: $8.40 Add To Cart

Major Powers in Northeast Asian Security

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

Military Intelligence (Cloth Edition)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH 60-13. By John Patrick Finnegan. Lineages compiled by Romana Danysh. Presents an organizational history of Military Intelligence in the United States Army from its beginnings to the present. Includes the lineages and heraldic items of military intelligence brigades, groups, and battalions organized under tables of organization and equipment.

Year/Pages: 1998: 457 p.; ill.

Price: $45.00 Add To Cart

Military Intelligence Story: A Photo History

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, History Office, Office of the Chief of Staff, Army Intelligence and Security Command

Description: 2nd edition. On cover and spine: The Military Intelligence Story: A Photographic History. Illustrates the multifaceted diversity of modern Military Intelligence (MI). Aims to portray both the continuities between the past and the present and the successes of the MI community today. Consists chiefly of photographs which represent the different intelligence disciplines and depict a representative sampling of the organizations within the MI community. L.C. card 94-19170. Item 0325.

Year/Pages: 1998: 165 p.; ill.

Price: $8.40 Add To Cart

Mind the Gap: Promoting a Transatlantic Revolution in Military Affairs

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

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

Modern United States Civil-Military Relations: Wielding the Terrible Swift Sword

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.

Price: $3.00 Add To Cart

Modernization in Lean Times: Modifications and Upgrades, Report of the DSMC 1994-1995 Military Research Fellows, July 1995

Publisher: Defense Dept., Defense Systems Management College

Description: Summarizes an 11-month research fellowship by three Military Research Fellows. Provides an advanced professional education for selected military officers from the Army, Navy and Air Force, and an independent report in an area of interest to the Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition community. The topic of this year's research is modifications and upgrades. Gives a concise top level review of the DoD regulations, policies and guidance pertaining to major weapon system's Modification and Upgrades.

Year/Pages: 1995: 168 p.; ill.

Price: $5.60

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

National Military Strategy of the United States of America: Shape, Respond, Prepare Now, A Military Strategy for a New Era, dated 1997

Publisher: Defense Dept.

Description: Describes the strategy, "Shape, Respond, Prepare Now: A Military Strategy for a New Era." Explains the strategic direction of the Armed Forces in implementing the guidance in the President's "A National Security Strategy for a new Century" and the Defense Secretary's "Report of the Quadrennial Defense Review."

Year/Pages: 1997: 32 p.; ill.

Price: $2.60 Add To Cart

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

Nuclear Coexistence: Rethinking United States Policy to Promote Stability in an Era of Proliferation

Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air University, Air War College

Description: Air War College Studies in National Security No. 1. Addresses the emerging incongruence between the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the United States policy for managing this process.

Year/Pages: 1994: 192 p.

Price: $7.60 Add To Cart

Parameters: United States Army War College Quarterly

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, United States Army War College

Description: Quarterly periodical. Subscription price covers issues for 1 year. Subscription service begins with the issue current when the order is processed. Copies of the latest 2 issues are retained in stock for individual purchase. Single copy, $17.00; foreign single copy, $23.80. Provides a forum for expression of professional thought on the art and science of warfare, national and international security, military history, strategy, leadership, and management. PAR. File Code 2R. ISSN 0031-1723. Item 325-K.

Price: $26.00 Add To Cart

Personal Security for the American Business Traveler Overseas

Publisher: State Dept., Overseas Security Advisory Council

Description: State Department Publication 10303. Quick Security Guidelines. Publication measures 9 x 4 in. Provides specific security guidelines for Americans who travel abroad on business.

Year/Pages: 1996: 20 p.; ill.

Price: $0.90 Add To Cart

Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction

Publisher: Federal Emergency Management Agency

Description: FEMA 421, 12/98. PAS Report No. 483/484. By Jim Schwab, et al. Prepared by Federal Emergency Management Agency and Planning Advisory Service, American Planning Association. Helps community leaders and planners educate their constituents on how informed decisions and choices can affect the rebuilding process and yield a safer, more sustainable community. Previously listed incorrectly under ISBN 0-16-067619-3.

Year/Pages: 1998: 348 p.; ill.

Price: $45.00 Add To Cart

Power and Progress, 2015

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

Preemptive Defense: Allied Air Power Versus Hitler's V-Weapons, 1943-1945

Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force History and Museums Program

Description: United States Army Air Forces in World War 2. Details the story of the attempt by the allies to render Germany's Vergeltungswaffe (V) weapons ineffective in World War 2. Item 422-M-01.

Year/Pages: 1998: 43 p.; ill.

Price: $1.30 Add To Cart

Proliferation: Threat and Response, 2001

Publisher: Defense Dept., Office of the Secretary

Description: Updates information about the nature of the global proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. Describes the policies and programs that the Defense Department is carrying out to counter this growing threat to American citizens, armed forces, and allies. Item 0306.

Year/Pages: 2001: 131 p.; ill.

Price: $18.00

Public Transportation System Security and Emergency Preparedness Planning Guide: Final Report, January 2003

Publisher: Transportation Dept., Federal Transit Administration

Description: DOT-FTA-MA-26-5019-03-01. DOT-VNTSC-FTA-03-01. By John N. Balog, et al. Identifies practical steps that public transportation systems can take to be better prepared for all emergencies.

Year/Pages: 2003: 194 p.; ill.

Price: $11.20

Report on the United States Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq, July 9, 2004, Ordered Reported on July 7, 2004

Publisher: Senate, Select Committee on Intelligence

Description: S. Rept. 108-301. Unclassified edition. Together With Additional Views. Provides the Senate and the American public with a substantial record of the facts underlying the conclusions of the Committee regarding the intelligence community's prewar assessments of Iraq's programs for weapons of mass destruction and its ties to terrorism. Some text is blacked out. 108th Congress, 2d Session. Jacket 94-712 PDF.

Year/Pages: 2004: 527 p.

Price: $20.40 Add To Cart

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

Right Makes Might: Freedom and Power in the Information Age

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.

Price: $3.00 Add To Cart

Security Awareness in the 1990s: Feature Articles From the Security Awareness Bulletin, 1990-1996

Publisher: Defense Dept., Department of Defense Security Institute, Security Education and Awareness Team

Description: Provides freshly edited versions of the most informative and useful feature articles appearing in Security Awareness Bulletin during the years 1991 through 1996. Includes articles on: the foreign intelligence threat; espionage and espionage case studies; information systems security; security policy and programs; industrial security; and the threat to United States technology.

Year/Pages: 1996: 210 p.; ill.

Price: $31.00

Security in the Information Age: New Challenges, New Strategies, Compendium of Papers, May 2002

Publisher: Congress, Joint Economic Committee

Description: S. Prt. 107-69. Joint Committee Print. Presents a range of perspectives on infrastructure protection, from definitions and strategies to business challenges and policy actions.

Year/Pages: 2002: 134 p.

Price: $10.50

Simulation Based Acquisition: A New Approach, Report of the 1997-1998 DSMC Military Research Fellows

Publisher: Defense Dept., Defense Systems Management College

Description: By Michael V. R. Johnson, et al. Presents the combined efforts of three military Research Fellows, participating in an 11-month Defense Systems Management College Research Fellowship program. These fellows have developed a new approach to the development of weapons systems which is designed to get the new materials into the hands of the warfighter faster. This approach is called Simulation Based Acquisition (SBA). The objective of this book is to convince program managers that SBA is a smarter way of doing business.

Year/Pages: 1998: 136 p.; ill.

Price: $3.00

Space Handbook: An Analyst's Guide, V. 2

Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air University

Description: AU-18. Prepared by Michael J. Muolo. Edited by Richard Hand, et al. Originally written for use as a textbook in Department of Defense schools. Includes chapters on: The Space environment; Orbital mechanics; Propulsion systems; Space vehicle electrical power; Navigation, guidance, and control; Global communications; Atmospheric penetration; Directed energy systems; Building reliable spacecraft; and Bioastronautics. Five appendices cover: The Deorbiting problem; Determination of the angle between two orbiting planes; Introduction to radar; Orbital coordinate systems; and Signs and symbols. Item 422-K.

Year/Pages: 1993: 392 p.; ill.

Price: $44.00

Surface Warfare

Publisher: Defense Dept., Navy, Director, Surface Warfares

Description: Quarterly periodical. Subscription price covers issues for 1 year. Subscription service begins with first issue after the order is processed. Copies of the latest 3 issues are retained in stock for individual purchase. Single copy, $7.00; foreign single copy, $9.80. Published by authority of the Chief of Naval Operations to provide timely information of interest to the Surface Warfare Community. SW. File Code 2G. Item 400-D.

Price: $15.00 Add To Cart

Terrorist Bomb Threat Stand-Off (Card) (Package of 10)

Publisher: Federal Emergency Management Agency and Defense Dept., Technical Support Working Group (TSWG)

Description: The BTSC is a two-sided, four-color, laminated 3x5 card with a pictorial representation of eight bomb threats and associated explosives capacities, building, and outdoor evacuation distances. The purpose/use of the card is to make this information readily available to any first responder who may encounter a terrorist threat incident. It should be placed in patrol cars, fire trucks, and other emergency vehicles as well with other emergency reference materials. Sold in packages of 5 copies only.

Year/Pages: 1999: Laminated card; ill.

Price: $4.00

Transforming Nuclear Deterrence

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

Undersea Warfare: The Official Magazine of the United States Submarine Force

Publisher: Defense Dept., Navy

Description: Quarterly periodical. Subscription price covers issues for 1 year. Subscription service begins with the 1st issue after the order is processed. Copies of the lates 2 issues are retained in stock for individual purchase. Single copy, $7.00; Foreign single copy, $9.80. Official magazine of the United States Submarine Force. UWQ. File code 2Q.

Price: $25.00 Add To Cart

United States and the Persian Gulf: Reshaping Security Strategy for the Post-Containment Era

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

United States Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1860-1941

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: CMH 70-66-1. First of a two-volume work. Examines how the Army had performed two of its most important unconventional missions: the suppression of insurgent or other irregular forces and the conduct of overseas constabulary and contingency operations in the years 1860 to 1941. L.C. card 97-26216.

Year/Pages: 1998: 331 p.; ill.

Price: $30.00 Add To Cart

United States Code, 2000 Edition, V. 27, Title 50, War and National Defense, Popular Names, and Tables, Revised Titles, Revised Statutes 1878, and Statutes at Large (1789-1899)

Publisher: House, Office of the Law Revision Counsel

Description: United States Code, 2000 Edition, Containing the General and Permanent Laws of the United States, in Force on January 2, 2001, V. 27, Title 50, War and National Defense, Popular Names and Tables, Revised Titles, Revised Statutes 1878, and Statutes at Large (1789-1899). Prepared under authority of Title 2, United States Code, Section 285b. Cover title reads: United States Code, 2000 Edition, Title 50, War and National Defense, Popular Names, and Tables, Revised Titles, Revised Statutes 1878, and Statutes at Large (1789-1899). Spine title reads: United States Code, 2000 Edition, Title 50, Popular Names, Tables, Revised Titles, Revised Statutes 1878, Statutes at Large (1789-1899.

Year/Pages: 2002: 1253 p.

Price: $81.00 Add To Cart

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

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