After twenty years in suspension on a space flight to the planet Iris, Captain Gill and his crew awake to find they have been asleep for over a thousand years, and apparently no one has come to look for them. Bad goes to worse as they discover that Earth is no longer habitable and they are threatene[...]
Based on a study of every intrastate war settlement between 1980 and 1998 in which international actors played a key role, this is a comprehensive, systematic study of the implementation of peace settlements - of what happens after the treaties are signed.[...]
Sir Julian Corbett was regarded as one of the greatest naval historians of the early twentieth century. "Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905" was never available to the public during his lifetime. As noted in the introduction to Volume I, Corbett dealt not with "minute details a[...]
Unlike his contemporary American theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Britain's eminent maritime strategist, Sir Julian Corbett, believed that victory in war did not come simply by the exercise of sea power and that, historically, this had never been the case. Corbett's keen analysis of the Russo- Japanes[...]