Military and defence strategy

Britain now faces fundamental choices in organising its armed forces and military strategy - more so than at any time since the 1930s.

How empires have used diversity to shape the world order for more than two millenniaEmpires-vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition-have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia.

With the development in the 13th century of co-operative tactics using crossbowmen and heavy spearmen, the charge by Muslim horse-archers, and then by European armoured knights, could be defied.

This book, first published in 1980, is a close analysis of Britain's defence policy in the latter years of the Cold War.

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This book, first published in 1981, offers an analysis of the ways in which one strategic situation in Cold War politics impinged on another, and the interplay of historical forces and trends shaping national policies and the world pattern of power.

The main objectives of this book are to analyse the risks and dangers NATO faces in the current strategic environment and to discuss how the alliance can readjust to those challenges.

The United States has struggled to define its approach to what has been called the "e;information battlefield"e; since the information era began.

Fought under the cover of elaborate deceptions and ruthless lies, the deadly intelligence operations of World War II produced victories and defeats that were often as important as any reached on the battlefield.

Over the past twenty years, a revolution has occurred in relations between the American executive and legislative branches.

On the first day of February 2021, Myanmar's military grabbed power in a coup d'etat, ending a decade of reforms that were supposed to break the shackles of military rule in Myanmar.

The United States must operate successfully in space to help assure its security and economic well being.

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This book explores contemporary military innovation, with a particular focus on the balance between anticipation and adaption.

Published each year since 1959, The Military Balance is an indispensable reference to the capabilities of armed forces across the globe.

This book examines the complex phenomena of modern maritime piracy.

This volume offers a concise overview of cyber warfare, providing historical context and an examination of its rapid development into a potent technological weapon of the 21st century.

This book examines the security dynamics of the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific, concentrating upon an analysis and evaluation of the air power capabilities of the various powers active in the two regions.

The modern means of communication have turned the world into an information fishbowl and, in terms of foreign policy and national security in post-Cold War power politics, helped transform international power politics.

Introduction to Intelligence Studies (third edition) provides an overview of the US intelligence community, to include its history, organization, and function.

This book, first published in 1986, examines the challenges the United States faced in maintaining a strong nuclear deterrence capability in the Far East without giving rise to political tensions among its allies.

An engrossing compendium of high-seas military disastersFrom the days of the Spanish Armada to the modern age of aircraft carriers, battles have been bungled just as badly on water as they have been on land.

“This is a great work on a small slice of operations on the Eastern Front during the first two years of the [second world] war.

This is the previously untold story of the remarkable relationship between a young British diplomat and Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia from the latter's Coronation in 1930 until his murder in 1975.

Startling new revelations about collaboration between the Allies and the German Secret Service.

The Armed Conflict Survey is the annual review of the political, military and humanitarian dimensions of all active conflicts from the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

This book explores the historical origins of victory.

This book examines the newly emergent field of military design thinking, how it has been developed inside and outside of military doctrine, and the paradigms that underlie its key thinkers and methodologies.

Over the past fifty years, many thousands of conflict simulations have been published that bring the dynamics of past and possible future wars to life.

The 900-day siege of Leningrad (1941-44) was one of the turning points of the Second World War.

In July 2005, the National Academies released the report Biological Science and Biotechnology in Russia: Controlling Diseases and Enhancing Security.

Cyber Warfare, Second Edition, takes a comprehensive look at how and why digital warfare is waged.

This book looks at the history of the US Air Force through the lens of its (lack of) preparedness for major wars, which is shown to be a result of its organizational culture.

No military service can long remain effective without searching self-criticism and continuous re-examination of its own ideas.

This book, first published in 2007, focuses on the law involved with national security and defense.

This volume conceptualizes the threats, challenges, opportunities, and boundaries of great power cyber competition of the 21st century.

An authoritative analysis of Iran''s defense doctrine and security policies set within the context of security and political relations in the Middle East.

This book explores the process by which defence policy is made in contemporary Britain and the institutions, actors and conflicting interests which interact in its inception and continuous reformulation.

The Soviet Far East (1957) examines the Soviet economic and political development of the Russian Far East between Lake Baikal and the Pacific, as it gained importance as the geographic base of Soviet power in the Far Eastern theatre of international politics and strategy.

This volume examines the ethical issues generated by recent developments in intelligence collection and offers a comprehensive analysis of the key legal, moral and social questions thereby raised.

This book, first published in 1992, examines defence issues as the twentieth century drew to a close.

This book develops a new approach in explaining how a nation's Grand Strategy is constituted, how to assess its merits, and how grand strategies may be comparatively evaluated within a broader framework.

Gorbachev's Third World Dilemmas (1989) examines the strategic, political and ideological criteria which shaped Soviet policies toward the developing world.

As the fourth largest military spender in the world, India has a huge defence economy supported by a budget amounting to nearly $67 billion in 2020-21.

A comprehensive survey of the development of strategic thought over two millennia, ranging across land, sea, air and nuclear warfare.

Imagine being Japanese, living in Singapore in the nineteen twenties and thirties, suspected by everyone around you of being a spy.

First published in 1989, this title explores the nature and dimensions of the U.

On 1 September 1939, when Germany attacked Poland, the Wehrmacht numbered 3,180,000 men.

A thoroughly updated revision of the first comprehensive overview of intelligence designed for both the student and the general reader, Silent Warfare is an insider’s guide to a shadowy, often misunderstood world.