Military forces and sectors

This book aims to redefine maritime diplomacy for the modern era.

China's war on terror is among its most prominent and least understood of campaigns.

This book explores the idea of arevolution in military affairs (RMA), which underpins the transformational agenda of the US military, and examines its implications for smaller states.

Over the past twenty years, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have become significant elements of national security arrangements, assuming many of the functions that have traditionally been undertaken by state armies.

Over the past twenty years, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have become significant elements of national security arrangements, assuming many of the functions that have traditionally been undertaken by state armies.

This book examines the dynamics of the modern relationship between China and India.

This book examines the dynamics of the modern relationship between China and India.

This is the first academic study of India's emerging maritime strategy, and offers a systematic analysis of the interplay between Western military thought and Indian maritime traditions.

This is the first academic study of India's emerging maritime strategy, and offers a systematic analysis of the interplay between Western military thought and Indian maritime traditions.

Naval Warfare 1919-45 is a comprehensive history of the war at sea from the end of the Great War to the end of World War Two.

Naval Warfare 1919-45 is a comprehensive history of the war at sea from the end of the Great War to the end of World War Two.

This edited volume explores stability, security, transition and reconstruction operations (SSTR), highlighting the challenges and opportunities they create for the US Navy.

This edited volume explores stability, security, transition and reconstruction operations (SSTR), highlighting the challenges and opportunities they create for the US Navy.

This edited volume focuses on India's experiences waging counterinsurgency campaigns since its independence in 1947.

This edited volume focuses on India's experiences waging counterinsurgency campaigns since its independence in 1947.

A penetrating study of the German army’s military campaigns, relations with the Nazi regime, and complicity in Nazi crimes across occupied Europe For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine.

A Companion to Europe Since 1945 provides a stimulating guide to numerous important developments which have influenced the political, economic, social, and cultural character of Europe during and since the Cold War.

A Companion to the First World War brings together an international team of distinguished historians who provide a series of original and thought-provoking essays on one of the most devastating events in modern history.

This fully illustrated book assesses the trial of strength between US Navy PT boats and Japanese destroyers operating in the Solomon Islands during 1942 43.

Analyzes the effectiveness of post-Cold War air wars in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and against terrorist groups.

Analyzes the effectiveness of post-Cold War air wars in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and against terrorist groups.

A fundamental reassessment of German politics and strategy during the First World War and why it was that Germany lost.

A fundamental reassessment of German politics and strategy during the First World War and why it was that Germany lost.

This Element interprets how narcotrafficking and private armies interacted with the process of configuration of the state in Colombia.

This Element interprets how narcotrafficking and private armies interacted with the process of configuration of the state in Colombia.

Filled with personal accounts of the action, this book details the USAAF's tactical and strategic campaigns in the skies over Italy in World War II.

Based on focus groups and surveys with members of Special Operations, explores efforts to integrate women into combat forces.

By the spring of 1941, the enemy had taken much of Southern Europe: Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, and with Italy in the Axis it stood to dominate.

Based on focus groups and surveys with members of Special Operations, explores efforts to integrate women into combat forces.

Owing its origins to Lord Trenchard's desire to establish an elite corps of civilians who would serve their country in flying squadrons during their spare time, the Auxiliary Air Force (AAF) was first formed in October 1924.

"The enemy had a single purpose: kill me and my teammates.

True tales of life and death as told by those who fought in the briny depths.

This book examines the processes, practices and principles of defence planning in small and middle powers.

The names William Bligh, Fletcher Christian, and the Bounty have excited the popular imagination for more than two hundred years.

Susie Weksler was only eight when Hitler''s forces invaded her Lithuanian city of Vilnius.

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.

Avenger Wrath est l'histoire d'un Hog ​​Driver et de sa chevauchée pendant la guerre en Afghanistan, opérant depuis la base aérienne de Bagram avec la magnifique chaîne de montagnes afghane, bien que mortelle, en toile de fond.

Jehan Morel, experimentado soldado y estudioso de la ciencia militar, expone el intrigante mundo de la guerra de guerrilla y contraguerrilla en este libro absorbente.

A anti communist Brazilian fighter involved in the Portuguese wars to save Angola and Mozambique from communist takeover in the 1970's, Rhodesia Special Branch, French and Spanish Foreign Legion,and lots of action.