No such thing as a stupid question! Yes. Post 9/11 especially, security is more political science (governments decide things), whereas military studies is what the actual military does, or decides to do, etc. I think that makes sense? You see older stuff classified slightly differently (80s and before) where anything to do with security operations would be U, but now that the US has all kinds of agencies doing security stuff, not just the military, it's expanded broadly.
There's also a whole category for border security, which hasn't really been a topic of interest until recently, and for multinational cooperation for security. Crazy.
So if a book is mostly about military affairs or actions or outcomes, it'll go in the U (v for navy) section - if it's about government debating or taking action etc. for security stuff, it'll go in the Js. Could also go into H for sociology (military life and culture is always H, as is women in combat, dependants, leadership, etc.).
I'm going to send our Poli Sci guy the list of books from the Army Manual bibliography, and see if he'll buy any of that for me. For that matter, see if he'll buy the manual, too.
You probably want "Security Dimensions -- International" which is JZ5688.2. But there are bits scattered around the whole Js... as well as loads that make it into the UV still.
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There's also a whole category for border security, which hasn't really been a topic of interest until recently, and for multinational cooperation for security. Crazy.
So if a book is mostly about military affairs or actions or outcomes, it'll go in the U (v for navy) section - if it's about government debating or taking action etc. for security stuff, it'll go in the Js. Could also go into H for sociology (military life and culture is always H, as is women in combat, dependants, leadership, etc.).
I'm going to send our Poli Sci guy the list of books from the Army Manual bibliography, and see if he'll buy any of that for me. For that matter, see if he'll buy the manual, too.
You probably want "Security Dimensions -- International" which is JZ5688.2. But there are bits scattered around the whole Js... as well as loads that make it into the UV still.