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Security, Loyalty, and Science
Both sides of a sensitive problem are assessed by Professor Gellhorn in this penetrating analysis of national security and its effect upon scientific progress. The costs and advantages of secrecy in certain areas of science and the conflict between national safety and individual rights in the administration of our federal loyalty program are presented; all the arguments are objectively weighed.…
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- 32
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781501740688
- Collation
- v, 312 p
- Series Title
- Cornell Studies in Civil Liberties
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- -
The Tools of Owatatsumi : Japan’s Ocean Surveillance and Coastal Defence Ca…
Japan is quintessentially by geography a maritime country. Maritime surveillance capabilities – underwater, shore-based and airborne – are critical to its national defence posture. This book describes and assesses these capabilities, with particular respect to the underwater segment, about which there is little strategic analysis in publicly available literature. Since the end of the Col…
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- 7
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781925022278
- Collation
- 162
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 621.38928.BAL
Revolutionary worlds. Local perspectives and dynamics of the Indonesian Indep…
Revolutionary Worlds looks at the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949) from a local and regional perspective. With seventeen contributions, Indonesian and Dutch researchers bring to life the revolutionary world from widely differing perspectives. The authors explain how Indonesian, Chinese, Indian and Eurasian civilians, fighters, farmers and officials experienced and shaped the often volatile per…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789463727587
- Collation
- 538p
- Series Title
- Onafhankelijkheid, Dekolonisatie, Geweld en Oorlog in Indonesië 1945-1950,
- Call Number
- 950 REV b
The Invasion of The South: Army Air Force Operations, and the Invasion of Nor…
Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan (now the Center for Military History of the National Institute for Defense Studies) published the 102-volume Senshi Sōsho (War History Series). The present book completes the trilogy of English translations of the sections in the Senshi Sōsho series on the Japanese operations against the former Dutch East I…
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- 34
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789400604100
- Collation
- 519p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 940.544952 REM
Soldiers' stories : military women in cinema and television since World War II
From Skirts Ahoy! to M*A*S*H, Private Benjamin, G.I. Jane, and JAG, films and television shows have grappled with the notion that military women are contradictory figures, unable to be both effective soldiers and appropriately feminine. In Soldiers’ Stories, Yvonne Tasker traces this perceived paradox across genres including musicals, screwball comedies, and action thrillers. She explains how…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780822393351
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 791.436581 YVO s
Fighting for a Living : Comparative History of Military Labour 1500-2000
Fighting for a Living investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe over the last 500 years. It does so on the basis of a wide range of case studies taken from Europe, Africa, America, the Middle East and Asia. The novelty of "Fighting for a Living" is that it is not military history in the tradit…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789089644527
- Collation
- 209p : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 355.22309 FIG f
Failed states and fragile societies : a new world disorder?
Since the end of the Cold War, a new dynamic has arisen within the international system, one that does not conform to established notions of the state’s monopoly on war. In this changing environment, the global community must decide how to respond to the challenges posed to the state by military threats, political and economic decline, and social fragmentation. This insightful work considers …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780821444887
- Collation
- 171p. : ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 327.1 FAI f
NL ARMS Netherlands annual review of military studies 2021
This is open access volume of the NL ARMS offers an interdisciplinary view on the domain of Compliance and Integrity in International Military Trade (CIIMT), integrating defence economics, international law, arms export control frameworks and policies, information management, organizational sciences and ethics. Although, in academia, and from an interdisciplinary perspective, CIIMT constitutes …
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789462654716
- Collation
- xi; 309 PG; ill.
- Series Title
- NL ARMS
- Call Number
- 382.456234 NLA n
Protagonists of war : Spanish army commanders and the revolt in the Low Count…
This is a book on early modern war narratives. In order to reach a fuller understanding of war narratives in general and those on the Revolt in the Low Countries in particular, it is necessary to return to the stories as they came into being. How did people describe the events they participated in, witnessed or heard about? Episodic descriptions of war events and their protagonists can be …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789461664044
- Collation
- 388p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 949.203 RAY p
War And Peace in The Western Political Imagination
The study of war in all periods of prehistory and recorded history has always commanded the attention of historians, dramatists, poets and artists. The study of peace has, however, not yet gained a comparable readership, and the subject is attracting an increasing amount of scholarly research. This volume presents the first work of academic research to tackle this imbalance head on. It looks at…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781474258722
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- -
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- -
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