From Publishers Weekly: Its first half is a narrative and analysis of the military campaign that overthrew Saddam Hussein's government in three weeks during the spring of 2003. Clark, a highly visible commentator during the operation, describes the U.S. ability to synchronize firepower and maneuvers as decisive in crushing an Iraqi army whose fighting power had been significantly...

An ethnographic look, in a non-scholarly book, on the Itelmen people, the original inhabitants of the Kamchatka Peninsula.

The book examines the philosophical and legal concept of war and the gight against international terrorism in different democracies. The crisis of democracies on issues of war and peace. The essence and nature of wars waged by democratic states. Methods of warfare employed by democratic states. Civilizations and wars: history and modernity. The humanization of military policy and military...

Tirazh 100 ekz. Seriia: Issledovaniia po prikladnoi i neotlozhnoi etnologii. Institut Etnologii i antropologii N 160

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Central Asia on the way to integration: geopolitics, ethnicity and security.

The end of the Cold War brought an end to the bipolar world order. This accelerated the processes of globalization and the formation of a multipolar world, which is manifested in the widespread exacerbation of ethnic, religious, and socio-economic contradictions at various levels, and in the emergence of numerous ‘small wars’ and low-intensity conflicts. All of this contributes to the emergence...

In the book, the famous political scientist Alexander Panarin analyzes the long-term consequences of a fatal event - the world war started by the USA for the possession of the resources of the entire planet. It is not only about resources: will they be the common property (the universalist project of the Enlightenment) or will they become a monopoly of a select minority (a new racist project),...

The author is a popular political commentator, winner of a number of journalism awards, has been working for Izvestia for the last few years, and is familiar to most people from his comments on the Odnako program. Although the title says ‘the Rhine is wonderful’, the book will focus on ‘Russian topics’ – after all, what else can Russians talk about when they meet by chance on the banks of a...

The book by philosopher and historian N.A. Benediktov discusses the system of values of the Russian people. In addition to general ideas about Russian shrines, it describes key periods in the formation of the people. Without knowledge of national life-meaningful values, it is impossible to govern the country, which the current leaders of Russia seem to be unaware of.