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Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge

Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar, author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World Is Dissolving Into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007), delivers an unforgettable snapshot of the people of Baghdad during the "surge." Outstanding first-han...

The Young Conservative's Field Guide

The Young Conservative's Field Guide" is a compilation of charts, figures and original research designed to provide conservatives in their 20s and 30s a foundation of knowledge to debate and engage their peers. This book equips readers with...

Tora Bora Revisited: How We Failed to Get Bin Laden and Why It Matters Today (Decisive Battles of th...

First volume in Decisive Battles of the 21st Century . From the Executive Summary: On October 7, 2001, U.S. aircraft began bombing the training bases and strongholds of Al Qaeda and the ruling Taliban across Afghanistan. The leaders who sen...

Threats in the Age of Obama

If you are on a mission to change the way government works, particularly in the national security arena, this is one a place where some independent and intellectually diverse thinking is to be found. In these essays, we offer our view of so...

Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving Into Liquid War

Globalistan weaves three parallel and intersecting themes: globalization, energy wars and the Long War. It shows how globalization is not proceeding according to the myth of "everyone profits": instead, it is fragmenting the world into even...

Transforming Government Supply Chain Management (IBM Center for the Business of Government)

While the commercial sector has been rapidly adopting modern, information-based supply chain systems--in order to remain competitive in the worldwide marketplace--the shift to such systems in the public sector has met with significant resi...

Transforming Government Supply Chain Management (IBM Center for the Business of Government)

While the commercial sector has been rapidly adopting modern, information-based supply chain systems--in order to remain competitive in the worldwide marketplace--the shift to such systems in the public sector has met with significant resi...

Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy

Today the U.S. military is more nimble, mobile, and focused on rapid responses against smaller powers than ever before. One could argue that the Gulf War and the postwar standoff with Saddam Hussein hastened needed military transformation a...