Theory of warfare and military science

This work blends strategic analysis of contemporary US foreign policy with long-term historical discussion, producing an important argument relevant to the debates surrounding both the merits of contemporary US foreign policy and the long-term trends at work in American political culture.

Central Europe may be perceived as a homogeneous subunit: a geographic locale that shares similar cultural traits, common histories, and a linked troubled past, and one that has embarked on a joint process of European integration in the past three decades.

Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West's ability and responsibility to help make the world a better place for others, in particular to protect them from oppression and serious human rights abuses.

These essays set the relationship between the Army and society in the context of the 20th century as a whole.

The book explores the pressing problem of rural violence in contemporary Nigeria by assessing the changing patterns of conflict and response across the country.

This book examines the importance of "e;military ethics"e; in the formulation and conduct of contemporary military strategy.

How do we plan under conditions of uncertainty?

This volume provides materials for active learning about peacebuilding and conflict management in the context of complex stability operations.

This edited volume bridges the "e;analytical divide"e; between studies of transatlantic relations, democratic peace theory, and foreign policy analysis, and improves our theoretical understanding of the logic of crises prevention and resolution.

Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.

Originally published in 1985, the level of anxiety and suspicion between the USA and the USSR had rarely been higher.

The Limits to Power (1979) analyses the spectrum of Soviet interests and policies in the Middle East following the Yom Kippur War of October 1973: how the Soviets handled the oil question, military and economic aid, policy toward Egypt, Syria, Iraq, the Palestinian organisations - and toward Israel itself.

This book investigates the underlying reasons for the longevity of detente and its impact on East-West relations.

This book aims to serve the military profession, and so the national interest, by helping to generate intelligent reform of how the armed forces train, educate, and promote officers who shape our military strategy and write our war plans.

The Quest for Oil (1970) examines all aspects of the oil industry - what oil is, where it is found, how fuels are produced, transported and sold, and the ways in which the fuels are used.

After a million deaths and twice that number injured, after the destruction of much of the infrastructure of Iran and Iraq, disruption of trade throughout the Gulf and the involvement of the USA and USSR, was the Gulf War a pointless exercise, a futile conflict which achieved nothing and left the combatants at the end of it all back in exactly the same position from which they started in 1980?

This book is a comprehensive study of the development of China's nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs).

This book examines why powerful states have varying success in restraining less-powerful allies from acquiring nuclear weapons, based on a broad range of historical case studies.

This volume explores the determinants of state power, the strategic options of rising powers, the drivers of conflict in dynamic international systems, and American grand strategy past and present to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the current era of great power competition.

Doomsday or Deterrence?

Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest, among both philosophers, legal scholars, and military experts, on the ethics of war.

This edited volume provides a systematic analysis of the missile threat and proliferation issue in the Middle East region.

This book offers the first systematic, comparative analysis of military education and training in Europe within the context of the post-Cold War security environment.

Survival, the bi-monthly publication from The International Institute for Strategic Studies, is a leading forum for analysis and debate of international and strategic affairs.

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

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the field of space policy.

1911 wird über Libyen zum ersten Mal in der Weltgeschichte eine Bombe aus einem Flugzeug abgeworfen.

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

This book provides the first comprehensive study of the evolution of the Iraqi military from the British mandate era to post-Baathist Iraq.

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

This book, first published in 1987, examines the defence forces of Western Europe and assesses Europe's capacity to defend itself as the 1980s saw the Cold War balance of power shift towards the Soviet Union.

The rise of American Empire has coincided with appeals for a more humane war.

In recent years, an increasing amount of research has argued that the successful transformation of rebel organization into parties is critical to stable post-conflict peace and democratization.

This interdisciplinary Handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the complex security phenomenon of disinformation and offers a toolkit to counter such tactics.

Explains how war spreads through an original analysis of the contagion that brought countries into the First World War.

Explains how war spreads through an original analysis of the contagion that brought countries into the First World War.

This book covers every aspect of the informant and cooperating witness dynamic a controversial technique shrouded in secrecy and widely misunderstood.

This book examines India's naval strategy within the context of Asian regional security.

Maritime Power in the Black Sea provides the first comprehensive assessment and evaluation of the comparative maritime power of the six littoral states in the Black Sea - Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Romania and Bulgaria.

The book studies the development of Japan's Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) vision.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has yet to be directly analysed as a military security complex with significant political influence.

This book analyzes Palestinian attempts to create an organized military force from the period of the Mandate up to the present day.

This work explains and critically examines the main theoretical aspects of operational warfare at sea.

This book explores colonial and post-colonial intelligence services in South Asia.

Surveys how American strategic theorists have understood the nature and character of war in the twentieth century.