Government Sources by Subject: Defense and War

A private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States. You can focus by issue, region and, in some cases, individual countries.

Provides frequently updated data and analyses on the global military balance; dedicated efforts focus on regional balances as well.

Making, keeping, implementing, building, and measuring peace ; resources include the Conflict Data Service, the Database of Psychosocial projects, the Ethnic Conflict Research Digest, and more...

IISS focuses on global security, political risk and military conflict; its research program targets policy themes and regional security.

Digital documents relating to law, history, economics, politics, and diplomacy with links to supporting documents. International treaties, conventions, and agreements from ancient times to the present.

Resources by region and topic, the Peace Agreements Digital Collection, the Truth Commissions Digital Collection, and more. . .

1959-; military capabilities and defense economics of 170 countries world-wide. Access for all on-campus; login required from off-campus.

UN resources on peacekeeping, disarmament, decolonization, international security, women & children in war zones, and more...

Researches conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament; provides data, analysis and recommendations.

News, resolutions, data, reports & documents and more relating to issues of women, gender, and war.

Print and microfiche; maps of states with military bases and installations shown as well as many data tables for wages, and more...

Active duty military strength by service, state, and country, 1954 to the present. Works best with Chrome browser.

Department of Defense and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business data.

Guide updated in 2014 including chapters on humanitarian security mechanisms, operational civil-military interaction, and more.

Informational pamphlets, government reports, instructions, regulations, declarations, speeches, and propaganda materials.

A research collection of open-source resources related to homeland security policy, strategy and organizational management.

Fact sheets, speeches, biographies, history, news and more from the Air Force.

Detailed address information and maps for US military bases (Air Force, Navy and Marines Bases, Coast Guard Air Stations and Army Air Fields) worldwide.

U.S. military information: defense policies, organizations, functions and operations.

Military expenditures, arms transfers, armed forces, selected economic data, and relative indicators consisting of pertinent military-economic ratios.

Fulltext with links to each individual article.

Available in print and online; information on employment of POWs and some information on camps.

Online, print, microfiche and CD-Rom sources for this subject.

Full text citations are indexed by war. More than 3400 medals of honor have been awarded since 1861.

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