Neither Athens Nor Sparta? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neither Athens Nor Sparta? write by John P. Lovell. This book was released on 1979. Neither Athens Nor Sparta? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Neither Athens Nor Sparta?
Neither Athens Nor Sparta? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neither Athens Nor Sparta? write by John P. Lovell. This book was released on 1979. Neither Athens Nor Sparta? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Persian Interventions
Persian Interventions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Persian Interventions write by John O. Hyland. This book was released on 2018. Persian Interventions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In this book, Hyland examines the international relations of the First Persian Empire (the Achaemenid Empire) as a case study in ancient imperialism. He focuses in particular on Persian's relations with the Greek city-states and its diplomatic influence over Athens and Sparta. Previous studies have emphasized the ways in which Persia sought to protect its borders by playing the often warring Athens and Sparta off each other, prolonging their conflicts through limited aid and shifts of alliance. Hyland proposes a new model, employing Persian ideological texts and economic documents to contextualize the Greek narrative framework, that demonstrates that Persian Kings were less interested in control of the Ionian region where Greece bordered the empire than in displays of universal power through the acquisition of Athens or Sparta as client states. On the other hand, the establishment of "Pax Persica" beyond the Aegean was delayed by Persian efforts to limit the interventions' expense, and missteps in dealing with fractious Greek allies. This reevaluation of Persia's Greek relations marks an important contribution to scholarship on the Achaemenid empire and Greek history, and has value for the broader study of imperialism in the ancient world."--Provided by publisher.
Strategic Logic and Political Rationality
Strategic Logic and Political Rationality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strategic Logic and Political Rationality write by Bradford A. Lee. This book was released on 2004-08-02. Strategic Logic and Political Rationality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of three volumes in honour of the teaching and scholarship of the late Michael I. Handel, this book details the universal logic of strategy and the ability of liberal-democratic governments to address this logic rationally. Treating war as an extension of politics, the diverse contributors (drawn from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Israel) explore the difficulties in matching strategy to policy, especially in free societies.
Seablindness
Seablindness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seablindness write by Seth Cropsey. This book was released on 2017-08-29. Seablindness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The challenges to American security in the Western Pacific, the seas that surround Europe, and the Persian Gulf are growing. At the same time, U.S. military commanders seek more naval forces to protect America's interest in the safe transit of American goods, deterrence in a proliferating world, and the defense of our key allies. At the same time U.S. defense budgets are shrinking. American seapower has not been as small as it is today since before World War I. Unless reversed, U.S. seapower will continue its decline into the indefinite future as politicians ignore the widening gulf between the cost of modernizing and expanding American seapower, and the resources devoted to this most strategic arm of the nation's defense. Seablindness explains the dilemma. It looks at the consequences of neglect including the effect of increased deployments on families, global scenarios set in the immediate future, the views of America's most knowledgeable military officers, the anxious reactions of U.S. allies, and hard facts to show how a lack of political will is dismantling the nation's global reach and with it, our position as the world's great power.
