Sven Biscop

Oscar Jonsson

Frank Bekkers

Sten Rynning

Jolyon Howorth

Giovanni Faleg

Tom Dyson

Tomas Weiss

Alessandro Marrone

Jacek Bartosiak

Daniel Fiott

Nick Witney

Simon J. Smith

Benoît Gomis

Olivier de France

Hilmar Linnenkamp

Ronja Kempin

Falk Tettweiler

The Amazing Strategic Orchestra of Belgian Defence

Enrique Fojon

Enrique Mora

Felix Arteaga

Manuel Muniz

Francisco de Borja Lasheras

Antonios Nestoras

Edgars Kiukucans

Dominik P. Jankowski

Ton van Osch

Carlos Branco

Margiris Abukevicius

Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen

Vivien Pertusot

Dick Zandee

Jo Coelmont

Alexander Mattelaer

Given the Ukraine crisis, Russia’s resurgence and the burning crises in the South there has never been a better time to discuss European defence. From November 2014 to March 2015, the online magazine European Geostrategy published a number of excellent essays on the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), all from a national perspective. You can now read all of the essays in this one neat publication. Indeed, in this essay collection jointly published by European Geostrategy, the Egmont Institute and the Institute for European Studies, a host of leading experts give their national perspectives on the present state and future of the EU’s CSDP. Each of the thirty-four essays focuses on the continued relevance of the CSDP when compared to the security challenges facing Europe today. Some essays give a bleak picture of the future, whereas others see grounds for optimism. Either way the essays are bound to provoke reactions of all kinds.

The Common Security and Defence Policy: National Perspectives

Drawing upon extensive original research, this book explores best practice in army lessons-learned processes. Without the correct learning mechanisms, military adaptation can be blocked, or the wider lessons from adaptation can easily be lost, leading to the need to relearn lessons in the field, often at great human and financial cost. This book analyses the organisational processes and activities which can help improve tactical- and operational-level learning through case studies of lessons learned in two key NATO armies: that of Britain and of Germany. Providing the first comparative analysis of the variables which facilitate or impede the emergence of best practice in military learning, it makes an important contribution to the growing scholarship on knowledge management and learning in public organisations. It will be of much interest to lessons-learned practitioners, and students of military and strategic studies, defence studies, organisation studies and security studies.

A New Model for Lessons-Learned Processes

Organisational Learning and the Modern Army

Mark Ford

Grant Wasylik

Stan Haithcock

Inside this book, you'll find more than 20 little-known (but proven) strategies for generating safe, steady income from almost anywhere in the world--without touching complex investments or working some thankless job.

The Big Black Book of Income Secrets

Mike Aaronson

Wali Aslam

Regina Rauxloh

This book explores whether the new capabilities made possible by precision-strike technologies are reshaping approaches to international intervention. Since the end of the Cold War, US technological superiority has led to a more proactive and, some would argue, high risk approach to international military intervention. New technologies including the capacity to mount precision military strikes from high-level bombing campaigns and, more recently, the selective targeting of individuals from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have facilitated air campaigns, supported by Special Forces, without the commitment of large numbers of troops on the ground. Such campaigns include, for example, NATO’s high-level aerial bombardment of Milosevic’s forces in Kosovo in 1999 and of Gaddafi’s in Libya in 2011, and the US operation involving Special Forces against Osama Bin Laden. The development of UAVs and electronic data intercept technologies has further expanded the potential scope of interventions, for example against Islamic militants in the tribal areas of Pakistan. This volume examines three key and interrelated dimensions of these new precision-strike capabilities: (1) the strategic and foreign policy drivers and consequences; (2) the legal and moral implications of the new capabilities; and (3), the implications for decision-making at the strategic, operational and tactical levels. This book will be of much interest to students of war and technology, air power, international intervention, security studies and IR.

Strategic, Ethico-Legal and Decisional Implications

Precision Strike Warfare and International Intervention

Michael Juul Holm

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