Military and defence strategy

Prelude to the Easter Rising casts light upon the clandestine activities of Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany from 1914 to 1916.

Choice Outstanding TitleThroughout its existence, the Red Army was viewed as a formidable threat.

This book, first published in 1983, examines weapons standardisation as one aspect of NATO's efficiency.

This book, first published in 1956, analyses the Red Army's strategic planning for a war involving nuclear weapons - whereby the front line is thinned out to protect it from nuclear attack and replaced by large-scale offensive operations in NATO's rear.

Today, the Internet has become a source of information that no country or company can forgo.

This book, first published in 1981, examines the influences affecting Soviet military thinking planning and theory in the later Cold War.

This book examines the complex practice of counter-insurgency warfare through the prism of British military experiences in the post-war era and endeavours to unpack their performance.

This volume discusses the challenges the future holds for different aspects of the intelligence process and for organisations working in the field.

The edited volume examines contemporary intelligence and tradecraft in Africa.

This book examines Arctic defense policy and military security from the perspective of all eight Arctic states.

Our nation faces the distinct possibility of a catastrophic terrorist attack using an improvised nuclear device (IND), according to international and U.

This edited volume addresses the key issues of ethics, war and international relations in the post-9/11 world.

This book improves our understanding of battlefield coalitions, providing novel theoretical and empirical insight into their nature and capabilities, as well as the military and political consequences of their combat operations.

A highly valuable resource for students of intelligence studies, strategy and security, and foreign policy, this volume provides readers with an accessible and comprehensive exploration of U.

The greatest undersea adventure of the 20th century.

This book investigates everyday practices of intelligence cooperation in anti-terrorism matters, with a specific focus on the relationship between Europe and Britain.

Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy re-examines military industrialization in the developing world, focusing on policy-making in producer states and the impact of security perceptions on such policy-making.

From the legendary antagonism between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War to the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars of the twentieth century, the past is littered with long-term strategic rivalries.

Understanding NATO in the 21st Century enhances existing strategic debates and clarifies thinking as to the direction and scope of NATO's potential evolution in the 21st century.

This book, first published in 1975, analyses the three tools which the Russians used for attaining their political objectives: war, peace and neutrality.

Here is the ultimate inside history of twentieth-century intelligence gathering and covert activity.

The main aim of this book is to argue that the use of private force by states has been restricted by a norm against mercenary use.

This book examines the rise of great power competition in space, including the relevant and practical space strategies for China, Russia, the United States, and other countries.

Although the literature on terrorism is vast, there are many holes in it.

In late 1944 the US Marine Corps prepared for the toughest battles of the war.

This volume examines intelligence services since 1945 in their role as knowledge producers.

Homeland security is rarely just a matter of the homeland; it involves the circulation and multiplication of policing practices across borders.

This book, first published in 1985, examines the Cold War risks of superpower confrontations, mainly in the Third World, resulting in war in Europe.

When Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces on April 30, 1975, the communist victory sent shockwaves around the world.

This book examines the recent shift in US space policy and the forces that continually draw the US back into a space-technology security dilemma.

This volume focuses on the processes by which rulers and states have framed strategy from the fifth century BC to the present.

The recent conclusion to the war in Afghanistan - America's longest and one of its most frustrating - serves as a vivid reminder of the unpredictability and tragedy of war.

This book, first published in 1985, examines the questions of European security that lie at the heart of the confrontation between the superpowers.

Gaining a decisive technological edge is a never-ending pursuit for defense establishments and the countries they protect.

This letter is the abbreviated version of an update of the interim report on testing, evaluation, costs, and benefits of advanced spectroscopic portals (ASPs), issued by the National Academies' Committee on Advanced Spectroscopic Portals in June 2009 (NRC 2009).

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

This edited volume explores and analyses strategic thinking, military reform and adaptation in an era of Asian growth, European austerity and US rebalancing.

This volume examines the connection between culture and defence by providing an inside look at Brazil's aerospace strategies.

This volume examines variation in the ways Congress has engaged federal agencies overseeing our nation''s national security.

The Adversaries (1981) examines the post-war world that both the US and the Soviet Union tried to mould in their own images.

This book analyzes the concept of military necessity and just war thinking and argues that it should be seen as a vital moral principle for leaders.

The book examines Bernard Brodie's strategic and philosophical response to the nuclear age, embedding his work within the classical theories of Carl von Clausewitz.

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.

Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness.

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

To determine the government's commitment to a comprehensive mobilization strategy, Stevenson considers the effect of NSS policies on eight significant sectors of the Canadian population: Native Canadians, university students, war industry workers, coal miners, longshoremen, meatpackers, hospital nurses, and textile workers.

To defeat your enemies you must know them well.

The Soviet Union in World Politics, first published in 1980, looks at the change in direction of Soviet foreign policy away from world revolution in the 1970s.

Foreword by Admiral Sir John Woodward.