Books written by Derek Leebaert

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  Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957

  Pearson also claimed Truman to have said New York Jews were “disloyal” to the United States. See his column, Washington Post, March 12, 1948. As for Bevin, his biographer Lord Bullock shows the emptiness of such accusations, ...

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  To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda

  Parker, Geoffrey. “The Etiquette of Atrocity.” MHQ: Quarterly Journal of Military History (Summer 1993). ———. TheMilitary Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise oftheWest, 15001800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

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  The Future of the Electronic Marketplace

  The contributors to this volume are prime movers in major industries that are remaking themselves in order to shape the global marketplace.

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  To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda

  Offers a brilliant theory of war and politics, recounting the stories of small forces that have triumphed over vastly larger ones and changed the course of history, and illuminating why some giants fall and others do not.

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  Soviet Strategy and the New Military Thinking

  It involves the open dissemination of more information about the Soviet military . ... However , it was prevented from addressing political forecasts of the threat environment which remained the right of the Politburo .

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  Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957

  In fact, Derek Leebaert argues in Grand Improvisation, the idea that a traditionally insular United States suddenly transformed itself into the leader of the free world is illusory, as is the notion that the British colossus was compelled ...

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  The Future of Software

  Continuing the trend-watching of Technology 2001, which discussed the technologies that could well define the computing and communications environment that lies ahead, The Future of Software assembles the observations of leading computer ...

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  Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan

  As the United States commits itself to a renewed military effort in Afghanistan, the author explains why American politicians and statesmen have so often stumbled in their foreign policy.

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  Soviet Military Thinking

  This book, first published in 1981, examines the influences affecting Soviet military thinking planning and theory in the later Cold War.

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  What Role for Government?: Lessons from Policy Research

  The vital debates on government today are concerned with its social role, its participation in the economy, and its redistributive responsibilities. These functions, not defined in the Constitution, reflect the...