Military and defence strategy

The United States maintains defense ties with as many as 60 countries, which not only enables its armed forces to maintain command globally and to project its force widely, but also enables its government to exert leverage over allies' foreign policies and military strategies.

This historical account re-examines the Allied attack on Dresden during World War II, revealing the justification behind the controversial aerial bombing.

Jonathan Pollard, an intelligence analyst working in the U.

Written by the US Army's Urban Warfare Specialist, this book is the definitive look at how urban warfare tactics have evolved providing invaluable lessons for the US and British Armies of the future.

This classic work is a distillation of the knowledge, intuition and wisdom of one of history's greatest military commanders.

Using recently released French official documents and a variety of other sources, this study explains how the French Army, so recently defeated by the Viet Minh insurgents in Indochina, was able to successfully defeat the Algerian nationalist rebels on the battlefield, while nevertheless losing the war at the conference table.

A new look at how Britain's defence establishment learned to engage Japan's armed forces as the Pacific War progressed.

This edited book examines the East German foreign intelligence service (Hauptverwaltung Aufklarung, or HVA) as a historical problem, covering politics, scientific-technical and military intelligence and counterintelligence.

This book examines the key dimensions of 21st century war, and shows that orthodox thinking about war, particularly what it is and how it is fought, needs to be updated.

For the past sixty years, countries have conducted military and civilian activities in space, often for competitive purposes.

The book aims to provide the reader with a state-of-the-art introduction to classic and modern military theory.

Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have constituted a perennial feature of the security landscape.

This book proposes a novel theoretical framework of "e;interactive arming"e; in order to explain armament dynamics in contemporary Asia.

What changes in China's modern military policy reveal about military organizations and strategySince the 1949 Communist Revolution, China has devised nine different military strategies, which the People's Liberation Army (PLA) calls "e;strategic guidelines.

Learning War examines the U.

This edited volume brings together many of the world's leading scholars of intelligence with a number of former senior practitioners to facilitate a wide-ranging dialogue on the central challenges confronting students of intelligence.

Winner: Society for Military History Distinguished Book AwardThis year begins the centennial of the Philippine War, one of the most controversial and poorly understood events in American history.

This book addresses new technologies being considered by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for screening airport passengers for concealed weapons and explosives.

This book analyses how banks implement counter-terrorist financing measures and experiment with technologies to assess risks and make security decisions.

This textbook provides an overview of qualitive and quantitative methods used in different social sciences to investigate defence issues.

The mysterious life and career of Desmond Morton, Intelligence officer and personal adviser to Winston Churchill during the Second World War, is exposed for the first time in this study based on full access to official records.

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.

In conflict zones around the world, the phenomenon of foreign insurgents fighting on behalf of local rebel groups is a common occurrence.

This book explains both the strategic and the operational aspects of exercising control of the sea.

After suffering devastating losses in the early stages of the Second World War, the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force established an Operational Research Section within bomber command in order to drastically improve the efficiency of bombing missions targeting Germany.

Over two decades' research puts Lyn Macdonald among the greatest popular chroniclers of the First World War.

A contemporary primer on the leading arguments about U.

Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for The California Book Award in NonfictionThe San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year ListForeign Affairs Best Books of the Year In These Times "e;Best Books of the Year"e;Huffington Post's Ten Excellent December Books List LitHub's "e;Five Books Making News This Week"e;From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness expose of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that continues to this day.

If you take an interest in military and national security affairs, you have probably read the works of Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and Thucydides.

Presenting a global history of aerial bombardment, this book shows how certain European powers initiated aerial bombardment of civilians after World War I, and how it was an instrument of choice in World War II.

Within the last 30 years, the genomes of thousands of organisms, from viruses, to bacteria, to humans, have been sequenced or partially sequenced and deposited in databases freely accessible to scientists around the world.

In the early days of World War II, a young Marine named Charles Fenn was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) for undercover operations in the China-Burma-India theatre.

This book applies the concept of mediatization to the contemporary dynamic between war, media and society, with a focus on the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).

Between June 1812 and January 1815, US and British forces, notably the regular infantrymen of both sides (including the Canadian Fencibles Regiment), fought one another on a host of North American battlefields.

In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises.

In 1980, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared that smallpox had been eradicated.

This book examines a wide array of phenomena that arguably constitute the most noxious, extreme, terrifying, murderous, secretive, authoritarian, and/or anti-democratic aspects of national and international politics.

This is the first serious analysis of the combat capability of the British army in the Second World War.

This book critically analyses the concept of the intelligence cycle, highlighting the nature and extent of its limitations and proposing alternative ways of conceptualising the intelligence process.

War and Enlightenment in Russia explores how members of the military during the reign of Catherine II reconciled Enlightenment ideas about the equality and moral worth of all humans with the Russian reality based on serfdom, a world governed by autocracy, absolute respect for authority, and subordination to seniority.

This book, first published in 1990, examines the origins and evolution of the security police, considering the continuities as well as changes in its function as guardian of the regime's security.

The under-regulation of the private security industry has increasingly become a topic of media and academic interest.

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

Today's intelligence community faces challenges that would have been inconceivable only a dozen years ago.

The Yom Kippur War pitted Israel against Syria in the north and Egypt in the south in October 1973.

This book uses history in two ways: as the source of ideas about strategy and as examples to illustrate the elements by showing their application to specific campaigns and their utility in understanding the role of strategy in military operations.

First published in 1990, Richard Clutterbuck's fascinating analysis of European security confronts the problems of internal European community frontiers and technological aids in combating terrorism and international crime.

Although each state is unique it is possible to identify certain common problems and issues with respect to defence governance and management.

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