armed forces

Examines the training and operation of the specialized military units in the armed services of the United States and some of its allies.

The author examines the legality of the Iraqi War through a collection of documents, FBI files, and eyewitness accounts, and maintains that the government suppressed vital information about bombings of civilian targets and treatment of prisoners.

Contains twenty-two articles that report on the real-life experiences of American combat soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Addresses the controversy concerning women in the military from a variety of perspectives.

Describes new technologies that are helping make military aviation, land warfare, warships and submarines, intelligence, non-lethal weapons, and space weapons more efficient and discusses the implications these technologies have on current and future warfare.

Takes a look the war that has dominated America's military attention nearly ten years after the September 11 attacks and offers a plan for withdrawing troops.

Chronicles the military and political career of Rabin tracing his rise from soldier to general and from ambassador to Prime Minister of Israel.

Contains thirty-seven narratives, drawn from letters, diaries, private memoirs, and oral histories in which American veterans describe their experiences serving in conflicts from the First World War to the twenty-first-century war in Iraq.