The present volume puts forward two propositions. First, the altered face of armed conflict in the early twenty-first century remains political in the sense that Clausewitz suggested to his readers in the early nineteenth century amid the nationalization of war and the eclipse of the old régimes of dynastic absolutist Europe. Second, this book reflects the author's conviction that the men and women at arms of NATO and the European Union must ...

The collaboration by the writer Philip Gourevitch and the film-maker Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War). Together, they reveal the stories of the American soldiers who took and appeared in the haunting digital snapshots from Abu Ghraib prison that shocked the world - and simultaneously illuminates and alters forever our understanding of those images and the events they depict. Drawing on more than two hundred hours of Errol ...

Die glänzend geschriebene Biographie eines der populärsten deutschen Generäle des Ersten Weltkriegs. Der Kommandeur der deutschen Schutztruppe in Ostafrika kapitulierte nach erbitterten vierjährigen Kämpfen erst zwei Wochen nach Kriegsende in Europa. Angeblich »im Felde unbesiegt«, wurde er nach 1918 zu einer Ikone der Republikgegner und Kolonialrevisionisten. Eckard Michels, Autor des vielbeachteten Standardwerks ...

Meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government hired to operate in war zones and on American soil. Its contacts run from military and intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House; it has a military base, a fleet of aircraft and 20,000 troops, but since September 2007 the firm has been hit by a series of scandals that, far from damaging the company, have led to an unprecedented period of expansion. This revised and ...

1998 war William Queen schon ein Veteran als ATF-Agent, der Motorräder liebte ...

Im Sommer 1945 rekrutierte die U.S. Army den ehemaligen Chef der Wehrmachtseinheit "Fremde Heere Ost" Generalmajor Reinhard Gehlen. Damit war der Grundstein für den 1956 aus dieser Zusammenarbeit hervorgegangen Bundesnachrichtendienst gelegt. Dieses Buch zeigt, dass die Kooperation mit dem ehemaligen Kriegsgegner anfangs auch in amerikanischen Geheimdienstkreisen keineswegs unumstritten war, stand sie doch im Spannungsfeld zwischen ...

Using interviews with top officers in Iraq and the on-the-ground reportage, Ricks documents the inside story of the war. Many of the top officials actually opposed the invasion in 2003, and almost all of them were critical of how the war was fought in the following years. Follow up to )Fiasco(, which sold 35,000 copies in paperback.
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