Getting on the same net: How the theory-driven academic can better communicate with the pragmatic military client

Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Military Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 19-28

  Jans, Nicholas ^a  

^a NONE   (Australia)

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