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Military Organizations, Complex Machines

Modernization in the U.S. Armed Services

By: Chris C. Demchak

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Military Organizations, Complex Machines

Modernization in the U.S. Armed Services

By: Chris C. Demchak

Chris Demchak explores the reasons why military machines surprise their users and how they can change both the complexity and effectiveness of tactical organizations. She uses the Army's experiences with its M1 Abrams tank, as well as other examples, to explain the interaction of complex technology and militaries that seek to control uncertainty. Under some conditions, Demchak demonstrates, complexity in critical machines induces increased complexity in the organizations that use them, and can produce an army different from the one that was intended. Drawing on organization theory and her data, she argues that understanding this interaction will heavily influence whether armed forces reductions, savings, and modernization produce rapid, successful military organizations or lethally unpredictable ones.

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Cornell University Press

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1501723685

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Wars of Disruption and Resilience

Cybered Conflict, Power, and National Security

By: Chris C. Demchak

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Wars of Disruption and Resilience

Cybered Conflict, Power, and National Security

By: Chris C. Demchak

Increasingly, the power of a large, complex, wired nation like the United States rests on its ability to disrupt would-be cyber attacks and to be resilient against a successful attack or recurring campaign. Addressing the concerns of both theorists and those on the national security front lines, Chris C. Demchak presents a unified strategy for survival in an interconnected, ever-messier, more surprising cybered world and examines the institutional adaptations required of our defense, intelligence, energy, and other critical sectors for national security. Demchak introduces a strategy of “security resilience” against surprise attacks for a cybered world that is divided between modern, digitally vulnerable city-states and more dysfunctional global regions. Its key concepts build on theories of international relations, complexity in social-technical systems, and organizational-institutional adaptation. Demchak tests the strategy for reasonableness in history's few examples of states disrupting rather than conquering and being resilient to attacks, including ancient Athens and Sparta, several British colonial wars, and two American limited wars. She applies the strategy to modern political, social, and technical challenges and presents three kinds of institutional adaptation that predicate the success of the security resilience strategy in response. Finally, Demchak discusses implications for the future including new forms of cyber aggression like the Stuxnet worm, the rise of the cyber-command concept, and the competition between the U.S. and China as global cyber leaders. Wars of Disruption and Resilience offers a blueprint for a national cyber-power strategy that is long in time horizon, flexible in target and scale, and practical enough to maintain the security of a digitized nation facing violent cybered conflict.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820338346

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9780820338347

Cyber Threat

The Rise of Information Geopolitics in U.S. National Security

By: Chris Bronk

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Cyber Threat

The Rise of Information Geopolitics in U.S. National Security

By: Chris Bronk

This book presents a holistic view of the geopolitics of cyberspace that have arisen over the past decade, utilizing recent events to explain the international security dimension of cyber threat and vulnerability, and to document the challenges of controlling information resources and protecting computer systems. How are the evolving cases of cyber attack and breach as well as the actions of government and corporations shaping how cyberspace is governed? What object lessons are there in security cases such as those involving Wikileaks and the Snowden affair? An essential read for practitioners, scholars, and students of international affairs and security, this book examines the widely pervasive and enormously effective nature of cyber threats today, explaining why cyber attacks happen, how they matter, and how they may be managed. The book addresses a chronology of events starting in 2005 to comprehensively explain the international security dimension of cyber threat and vulnerability. It begins with an explanation of contemporary information technology, including the economics of contemporary cloud, mobile, and control systems software as well as how computing and networking—principally the Internet—are interwoven in the concept of cyberspace. Author Chris Bronk, PhD, then documents the national struggles with controlling information resources and protecting computer systems. The book considers major security cases such as Wikileaks, Stuxnet, the cyber attack on Estonia, Shamoon, and the recent exploits of the Syrian Electronic Army. Readers will understand how cyber security in the 21st century is far more than a military or defense issue, but is a critical matter of international law, diplomacy, commerce, and civil society as well.

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288

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216070511

China and India

Asia's Emergent Great Powers

By: Chris Ogden

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China and India

Asia's Emergent Great Powers

By: Chris Ogden

China and India are becoming increasingly influential, powerful and prominent countries – but what kind of states do their leaders and people wish them to become? Will they act and behave like major Western entities or like something altogether different, hence changing the very nature of international affairs? And as the Asian twenty– first century takes shape, how will these dynamics affect the wider geopolitical landscape and the balance of power? In this in–depth study, Chris Ogden evaluates the prospective impact of China and India upon the definition and nature of great power in the contemporary world. Whilst many contend that they will rise in a similar way to current and previous great powers – namely via traditional material, economic and military measures – Ogden explores the extent to which domestic political and cultural values as well as historical identities and perceptions are also central driving forces behind their common status, ambitions and worldviews. In so doing, he offers a new and comprehensive analysis of these two countries' past, contemporary and future global significance, in particular their shared status as the world's first such post–imperial great powers.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745689906

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9780745689906

Sports Hip Injuries

Diagnosis and Management

By: Bryan Kelly,Asheesh Bedi,Chris Larson,Eilish O'Sullivan

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Sports Hip Injuries

Diagnosis and Management

By: Bryan Kelly,Asheesh Bedi,Chris Larson,Eilish O'Sullivan

In the world of sports, hip injuries among an athletic population can be very difficult to diagnose and manage. That’s why Sports Hip Injuries: Diagnosis and Management is a comprehensive guide to diagnosing and managing sports hip injuries and hip preservation. Drs. Bryan Kelly, Asheesh Bedi, Chris Larson, and Eilish O’Sullivan are leaders in the field of hip preservation. They present Sports Hip Injuries: Diagnosis and Management in a concise manner by focusing on hip and pelvis disorders and cover all of the typical disorders seen in athletes presenting with hip and pelvic pain. The anatomy, presentation, clinical evaluation, imaging, nonsurgical and surgical treatment, and post-surgical rehabilitation of hip joint disorders are presented clearly throughout. Some of the topics Include: Femoroacetabular impingement Hip instability/dysplasia Athletic pubalgia/core muscle injury Stress fractures and traumatic sports injuries of the hip and pelvis Myotendinous injuries and nerve entrapment disorders of the hip and pelvis Rehabilitation guidelines and return to sport outcomes Sports Hip Injuries: Diagnosis and Management is an invaluable resource for sports medicine providers including orthopedic surgeons and fellows that care for patients presenting with hip pain for athletes at all levels, as well as physical therapists and athletic trainers.

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CRC Press

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1040135978

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Digital Bank: Strategies to launch or become a digital bank

By: Chris Skinner

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Digital Bank: Strategies to launch or become a digital bank

By: Chris Skinner

Digital Bank tracks the innovations in banking and how the mobile internet is changing the dynamics of consumer and corporate relationships with their banks. The implication is that banks must become digitised, and that is a challenge as becoming a Digital Bank demands new services focused upon 21st-century technologies. Digital Bank not only includes extensive guidance and background on the digital revolution in banking, but also in-depth analysis of the activities of incumbent banks such as Barclays in the UK and mBank in Poland, as well as new start-ups such as Metro Bank and disruptive new models of banking such as FIDOR Bank in Germany. Add on to these a comprehensive sprinkling of completely new models of finance, such as Zopa and Bitcoin, and you can see that this book is a must-have for anyone involved in the future of business, commerce and banking. Chris Skinner is best known as an independent commentator on the financial markets through the Finanser (www.thefinanser.com) and Chair of the European networking forum The Financial Services Club, which he founded in 2004. He is the author of ten books covering everything from European regulations in banking through the credit crisis to the future of banking, and is a regular commentator on BBC News, Sky News and Bloomberg about banking issues. More can be discovered about Chris here: http://thefinanser.co.uk/fsclub/chris-skinner/

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Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

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9814561800

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9789814561808

Wars of Disruption and Resilience

Cybered Conflict, Power, and National Security

By: Chris C. Demchak

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Wars of Disruption and Resilience

Cybered Conflict, Power, and National Security

By: Chris C. Demchak

Increasingly, the power of a large, complex, wired nation like the United States rests on its ability to disrupt would-be cyber attacks and to be resilient against a successful attack or recurring campaign. Addressing the concerns of both theorists and those on the national security front lines, Chris C. Demchak presents a unified strategy for survival in an interconnected, ever-messier, more surprising cybered world and examines the institutional adaptations required of our defense, intelligence, energy, and other critical sectors for national security. Demchak introduces a strategy of “security resilience” against surprise attacks for a cybered world that is divided between modern, digitally vulnerable city-states and more dysfunctional global regions. Its key concepts build on theories of international relations, complexity in social-technical systems, and organizational-institutional adaptation. Demchak tests the strategy for reasonableness in history’s few examples of states disrupting rather than conquering and being resilient to attacks, including ancient Athens and Sparta, several British colonial wars, and two American limited wars. She applies the strategy to modern political, social, and technical challenges and presents three kinds of institutional adaptation that predicate the success of the security resilience strategy in response. Finally, Demchak discusses implications for the future including new forms of cyber aggression like the Stuxnet worm, the rise of the cyber-command concept, and the competition between the U.S. and China as global cyber leaders. Wars of Disruption and Resilience offers a blueprint for a national cyber-power strategy that is long in time horizon, flexible in target and scale, and practical enough to maintain the security of a digitized nation facing violent cybered conflict.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820341371

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Military Organizations, Complex Machines

Modernization in the U.S. Armed Services

By: Chris C. Demchak

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Modernization in the U.S. Armed Services

By: Chris C. Demchak

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Military Organizations, Complex Machines

Military Organizations, Complex Machines

Wars of Disruption and Resilience

Wars of Disruption and Resilience

Cyber Threat

Cyber Threat

China and India

China and India

Sports Hip Injuries

Sports Hip Injuries

Digital Bank: Strategies to launch or become a digital bank

Digital Bank: Strategies to launch or become a digital bank

Wars of Disruption and Resilience

Wars of Disruption and Resilience

Military Organizations, Complex Machines

Military Organizations, Complex Machines

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