Military and defence strategy

This edited volume examines the impact of globalisation on the economies, security policies and military-industrial complexes of the Asia-Pacific region.

This book, first published in 1992, examines the changing post-Cold War changing patterns of security in Europe by analysing the major themes, the primary security organisations and the policies of countries at the forefront of the security debate.

This meticulous study is a concentrated look at naval admiral Chester W.

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This topical volume offers a comprehensive review of secret intelligence organizations and activities.

Discover the spiritually incisive strategies for peacefully resolving conflictin this masterpiece of military strategy.

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.

Soviet Foreign Policy After Stalin, first published in 1962, reviews the constants and variables in the Soviet international course after Stalin.

This Handbook is the first volume to comprehensively examine the challenges, intricacies, and dynamics of proxy wars, in their various facets.

The first complete reference on the military-industrial complex, from its Cold War era expansion to the present.

Sun Tzu better watch his back' New York Magazine'An Art of War-style book of tough guy maxims to live by' Evening StandardSpanning world civilizations, synthesizing dozens of political, philosophical, and religious texts and thousands of years of violent conflict, The Concise 33 Strategies of War is the I-Ching of conflict, distilling Robert Greene's global bestseller into the essential, accessible rules of engagement.

Some of the most brutally intense infantry combat in World War II occurred within Germanys Hurtgen Forest.

This book explores the conceptual, historical, and ethical issues of information conflict to present a detailed analysis of cognitive warfare.

Whether or not the United States has safe and effective medical countermeasuressuch as vaccines, drugs, and diagnostic toolsavailable for use during a disaster can mean the difference between life and death for many Americans.

The book is the definitive conceptual and historical introduction to the concept of anti-access strategies.

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Ancient battles seize the modern imagination.

Through widespread and relentless surprise attacks and ambushes, Confederate guerrillas drove Union soldiers and their leaders to desperation.

By the time Hitler declared war on the Soviet Union in 1941, he knew that his military machine was running out of fuel.

With a sharp eye and wry wit, Roger Hall recounts his experiences as an American Army officer assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II.

This narrative chronicles Libya's, and to a vast extent Muammar Gaddafi's, remarkable past, meteoric rise to prominence, and convoluted reign, and introduces potential scenarios that may play out in the near term.

NOW UPDATED WITH A NEW CHAPTER HOW THE DEATH OF A SPY IN THE IRA LED TO ONE OF THE BIGGEST MURDER INVESTIGATIONS IN BRITISH HISTORY WINNER - Historical Writers' Association Non-Fiction Crown 2024 SHORTLISTED - CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2024SHORTLISTED - True Crime Awards Book of the Year 2024 Top 10 Irish Non-Fiction bestseller, April 2024 On 26th May 1986, the body of an undercover British agent was found by the side of a muddy lane, with a rope tied around its wrists and tape over each eye.

This book analyses UK defence as a complex, interdependent public-private enterprise covering politics, management, society, and technology, as well as the military.

This book comparatively examines the preferences of four key arms-producing states towards European joint armaments programmes.

'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times'Beautifully written and elegiac .

India and Israel contextualises the varied aspects of the partnership between India and Israel, with a specific focus on the dominant driver - the defence engagement between the two sides, forged in the context of mutual complementarities.

Here, for the first time in English, is an illuminating German perspective on the decisive blitzkrieg campaign.

This book examines the debate over private security contractors, using historical and contemporary cases, including several non-Western examples.

Since the end of World War II, America lost every war it started and failed in military interventions when it did not use sound strategic thinking or have sufficient knowledge and understanding of the circumstances in deciding to use force.

Covering the years 1962 to 2011, this volume includes the most provocative and important writings from Stephen Cohen's fifty-year career of observing South Asia-as a professor, as a government official, and, since 1998, as a scholar at the Brookings Institution.

In this encyclopedic book, Lewis provides insights into the origins, training, tactics, weapons and achievements of special forces and special mission units throughout the world, focusing particularly on US and UK forces.

Handbook of Warning Intelligence: Assessing the Threat to National Security was written during the cold war and was classified for 40 years.

An analysis of the military raiding strategy employed on the Western Front during World War I.

Despite publicity given to the successes of British and American codebreakers during the Second World War, the study of signals intelligence is still complicated by governmental secrecy over even the most elderly peacetime sigint.

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

A gripping account of the fighting between cavalry of the Union and Confederate armies at small-unit level.

The Treaty on the European Union stipulates that one of the key objectives of the Union is to provide citizens with a high level of safety within an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.

This second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations offers a wide-ranging, internationally focused overview of the field of civil-military relations.

Master of Deception is a biography of Peter Fleming, elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond.

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This book, first published in 1981, offers a critical review of the techniques of mathematical modelling and their appropriate application to military operations research - the analysis of data (historical data, exercise and test results, and intelligence) in preparation for war.

The Soviet World, first published in 1965, examines both the domestic society of the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and its foreign relations with the capitalist world.

This volume in the Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues series presents a concise introduction to the evolution, key concepts, discourse, and future options for improved strategic communication in today's U.

The USSR and Latin America (1989) is an authoritative analysis of the Soviet Union's strategy and policy towards the region.

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The Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies provides a comprehensive collection of essays on contemporary defence studies by leading international scholars.

This is the history of the founding in 1882 and operation through two world wars of America's first permanent intelligence agency, the Office of Naval Intelligence.

Organised Crime and Law Enforcement: A Network Perspective examines organised crime and law enforcement through the conceptual lens of networks.

A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American ideas about "e;strategic"e; bombing were formed and implemented.

This report examines the proposed testing methodology and facility that the Department of Defense (DOD) will use to test and evaluate the effectiveness of its detection system against biological warfare agentsan issue that impacts battlefield missions as well as homeland security missions.