Abram N. Shulsky

An analysis of the rising of China and its implications for the USA. The book suggests that, at present, the best US response appears to be a combination of engagement and containment, a congagement policy that would continue to try to bring China into the international system.

A thoroughly updated revision of the first comprehensive overview of intelligence designed for both the student and the general reader, Silent Warfare is an insider’s guide to a shadowy, often misunderstood world. Leading intelligence scholars Abram N. Shulsky and Gary J. Schmitt clearly explain such topics as the principles of collection, analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action, and their interrelationship with policymakers and democratic values. This new edition takes account of the expanding literature in the field of intelligence and deals with the consequences for intelligence of vast recent changes in telecommunication and computer technology the new “information age.” It also reflects the world’s strategic changes since the end of the Cold War. This landmark book provides a valuable framework for understanding today’s headlines, as well as the many developments likely to come in the real world of the spy.

This title discusses the future of Sino-US relations in the context of China as a potential rival to the US. It argues that deterrence theory will be more difficult to apply than it was in the US-Soviet Cold War context, and that the key may be non-military means of deterrence.

China has often used force in ways that surprise and perplex other countries, when the overall military balance is unfavourable. Things have now changed however, there are no longer two superpowers to play off against each other and after decades of economic development, China now has more to lose.

The authors examine how the organizational structure of commercial corporations has changed over the past 10-15 years, in order to understand what lessons from that experience might be applied to the U. S. Army.