This Congressional Budget Office study looks at today's fighter fleets and how DoD plans for modernizing them will affect inventories and capabilities over the next decades. It examines seven alternative paths.

The US Army has initiated two programs designed to transform itself to better face the challenges of the 21st century: the Modularity Initiative and the Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, which would change the way the Army is organized and equipped, respectively. This study considers the near- and long-term implications of those two programs. It also examines three alternatives for modernizing the Army's combat forces and estimates the costs and savings of those options as well as their effects on the Army's ability to introduce new technologies into its combat brigades. In keeping with CBO's mandate to provide objective, impartial analysis, this report makes no recommendations.

Written at the height of the Cold War in 1959, Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare was published in an effort 'to prevent the catastrophe which would result from a large scale H-bomb war'. Bertrand Russell’s staunch anti-war stance is made very clear in this highly controversial text, which outlines his sharp insights into the threat of nuclear conflict and what should be done to avoid it. Russell’s argument, that the only way to end the threat of nuclear war is to end war itself, is as relevant today as it was on first publication.

Paul Halpern is a gifted writer who brings science and scientists alive. This is a wonderful introduction to the world of high-energy physics, where gigantic machines and tiny particles meet

Excellent addition to the Great Airliner Series