Theory of warfare and military science

The IRA is one of the oldest terrorist organizations in the world and conducted a ferociously violent campaign for almost thirty years.

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo (1992) is the definitive history and political analysis of this institution.

This book is about the challenges that emerge for organizations from an ever faster changing world.

AI for Digital Warfare explores how the weaponising of artificial intelligence can and will change how warfare is being conducted, and what impact it will have on the corporate world.

How has North Korea sought to normalize diplomatic relations with the US?

In 2010, David Bates presented the Ford Lectures in British History at the University of Oxford, and The Normans and Empire is the book which was born from these lectures.

This book challenges the unacceptable gap between the positive rules of the international law governing armed hostilities and actual state practice.

Ang describes the development of the Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA), an important security regional arrangement, from its inception to the present from the perspectives of the five FPDA allies.

This book outlines the construction, interpretations and understanding of US strategy towards Africa in the early twenty-first century.

This book examines the British and German approach to naval air power, describing the creation and development of the two naval air service organizations and doctrine.

This book examines the challenges that military forces will face in multinational operations in the 21st century.

Local Government in the Soviet Union (1987) analyses the Soviet Union's limited success in improving local government between in the 1960s to 1980s, as the country made a drive toward centralized policy control.

Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War documents the use of antipersonnel chemical weapons throughout the Vietnam War, and explores their effectiveness under the wide variety of circumstances in which they were employed.

The challenges that space poses for political theory are profound.

How do we plan under conditions of uncertainty?

In this edited book, leading scholars and analysts trace the origins, evolution and the current state of Indo-US strategic cooperation.

America has been at war for most of the 20th and 21st centuries and during that time has progressively moved towards a vicarious form of warfare, where key tasks are delegated to proxies, the military's exposure to danger is limited, and special forces and covert instruments are on the increase.

From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear warand Presidents' actions in nuclear crisesfrom Truman to Trump.

The beginning of the new millennium marked the meteoric rise of China in a decades-old world order dominated by the United States of America.

This book, first published in 1986, argues that there is a special category of medium powers in the world - such as Britain, France, India, Brazil, Japan, China and others - which have sufficient military power to do something to protect their interests but which are not a match for the superpowers.

Moral and political questions are vitally relevant to the issue of survival in the nuclear age.

How do aspiring and established rising global powers respond to conflict?

This book, first published in 1984, provides a wealth of original evidence that explores not only the impact of the Vietnam War on the beliefs of American leaders - the 'lessons' they believed had been learnt by Americans from the conflict in Vietnam.

Many books and articles have been written on wars in narrow seas.

This edited book examines the management of diversity and inclusion in the military.

In Britain, memory of the First World War remains dominated by the trench warfare of the Western Front.

This edited book addresses the appropriateness of US and other counter-terrorist (CT) strategies in Europe and Eurasia, the Middle East, the Asia Pacific region and in Latin America, with a view to improving their effectiveness.

This book explores the nexus between railways and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) - the first modern war, and one in which the railways played a key part.

Soviet Foreign Policy Today (1991) is the culmination of almost 30 years of observations of Soviet foreign and domestic politics, written at the time of Gorbachev's great changes.

The only textbook to provide a wide-ranging analysis of war and organised violence from a sociological perspective.

This volume brings together established and emerging scholars from academia and think tanks to reflect on important, conceptual, strategic and developmental issues in India's national security.

This book examines how international intelligence cooperation has come to prominence post-9/11 and introduces the main accountability, legal and human rights challenges that it poses.

With particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region, this book examines the rise and fall of sea powers.

This book seeks to reassess the role of Europe in the end of the Cold War and the process of German unification.

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.

This book explores the idea, psychology and political geography of Northeast India as forged by two interrelated but autonomous meta-narratives.

This book delves into the secret histories of the CIA, the FBI, and British and Italian intelligence to study how policymakers can control intelligence agencies and when these agencies will try to remove their own government.

This edited volume analyses the naval arms race in South-East Asia, and reviews the content, purposes and consequences of the naval policies and development of the main countries of the region.

This fascinating new collection of essays on Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) explores the 'non-military' aspects of British special operations in the Second World War.

This book looks at the historical and political dynamics of the Sino-Indian border dispute in India's Himalayan Frontiers.

This book, first published in 1984, carefully examine the political debate surrounding nuclear weapons and superpower polices in Cold War Western Europe.

Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia, who flood social media with disinformation, and circulate false and misleading information to fuel fake narratives and make the case for illegal warfare.

The nuclear non-proliferation treaty had recently undergone its third formal review by its signatories, who had assessed its effectiveness and considered how it might better be implemented.

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.

This book opens up the discussion of the interrelation between terrorism studies, and peace and conflict studies.

This book sheds new light on the foreign policies, roles, and positions of neutral states and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in the global Cold War.

This book examines the subject of strategy and its relationship with politics.

This book, first published in 1986, is a major study of semialignment and a review of the individual nations within NATO to which the model could be applied.

This book explores the innovations and advances in terrorist tactics and technologies to help fill the gap in the contemporary terrorism literature by developing an empirical theory of terrorist innovation.

An essential new account of some of the most valuable research and development in international military history.