Theory of warfare and military science

A fully revised and updated new edition of the leading introduction to the theory and conduct of warfare.

This book argues that the international community has a moral duty to intervene on behalf of a population affected by a natural hazard when their government is either unable or unwilling to provide basic, life-saving assistance.

In May 2013, China, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea (Asia 5) were given status as permanent observers in the Arctic Council.

Soviet Russia (1955) discusses the origins and growth of Russian industry, in particular the emergence of a large modern working class and administrative class since the war, how the factories and farms are run, the wage systems, and the plans.

American Soldiers in Iraq offers a unique snapshot of American soldiers in Iraq, analyzing their collective narratives in relation to the military sociology tradition.

This book investigates how Uyghur-related violent conflict and Uyghur ethnic minority identity, religion, and the Xinjiang region, more broadly, became constituted as a 'terrorism' problem for the Chinese state.

During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the technology employed by the British navy changed not just the material resources of the British navy but the culture and performance of the royal dockyards.

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This book examines the role of military virtues in today's armed forces.

Islam in the Balance: Ideational Threats in Arab Politics is an analysis of how ideas, or political ideology, can threaten states and how states react to ideational threats.

Khrushchev and the Communist World, first published in 1984, reviews the Khrushchev era, when the legacy of the Stalinist past was partly repudiated and the possibilities of reform within the USSR and the countries of the socialist camp were explored.

In war, do mass and materiel matter most?

This collection of essays considers the evolution of American institutions and processes for forming and implementing US national security policy, and offers diverse policy prescriptions for reform to confront an evolving and uncertain security environment.

Gorbachev at the Helm (1987) analyses the policy decisions taken at the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in February-March 1986, declared at the time by the Soviet government as a major turning point in Soviet history.

Examining the major academic and policy debates over China's rise and related policy issues, this book looks into the motivations and intentions of a rising China.

The life and chemical sciences are in the midst of a period of rapid and revolutionary transformation that will undoubtedly bring societal benefits but also have potentially malign applications, notably in the development of chemical weapons.

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

Rapid developments in information technology and precision weaponry are said to herald a 'revolution in military affairs' (RMA), making possible quick and decisive victories with minimal casualties and collateral damage.

First published in 1987, The Compendium of Armaments and Military Hardware provides, within a single volume, the salient technical and operational details of the most important weapons.

This edited volume offers an in-depth study of heritage and warfare from the perspective of defence studies.

This edited volume sets out to explore the paradox that the European Union (EU) produces policies with strategic qualities, but lacks the institutions and concepts to engage in strategic reasoning and action proper.

This book analyses conflict theory through one type of conflict in particular: manhunting, or predation.

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

This volume brings together a group of leading international scholars to discuss how US-China-EU relations will shape the future of international politics.

This book provides a critical overview of the occurrence of war in the international system by examining the concept from multiple perspectives and theoretical backgrounds.

Soviet Central Asia (1989) explores the economic development of the four republics of Central Asia that suffered under Moscow's economic policies - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kirghizia.

Intelligence was a major part of the Cold War, waged by both sides with an almost warlike intensity.

This book, first published in 1985, examines the whole problem of peacemaking in the Arab-Israel conflict.

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 revised and updated second edition features over twenty new chapters and offers a wide-ranging collection of cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Security Studies.

This concise and accessible new text offers original and insightful analysis of the policy paradigm informing international statebuilding interventions.

This sobering look at the future of warfare predicts that conflicts will now be fought over diminishing supplies of our most precious natural resources.

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

This book provides an accessible overview of US defense politics for upper-level students.

This book examines the circumstances under which aid can contribute to the management and transformation of intra-state conflicts.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of UK-US intelligence cooperation in the post-9/11 world.

There are many histories of how wars have begun, but very few which discuss how they have ended.

Written by a group of leading experts on Artic affairs, this book offers a historically informed and comprehensive study of the geopolitics and security challenges of the Arctic.

This book comparatively examines the preferences of four key arms-producing states towards European joint armaments programmes.

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This volume examines geopolitics by looking at the interaction between geography, strategy and history.

This book illustrates how Africa's defence and security domains have been radically altered by drastic changes in world politics and local ramifications.

This book examines the Vogeler/Sanders espionage case that ruptured ties between the US and UK and Hungary in 1949, and analyses this as an example of Western covert operations in the early Cold War.

Have globalization, virulent ethnic differences, and globally operating insurgents fundamentally changed the nature of war in the last decade?

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This book examines India's foreign and defence policy changes in response to China's growing economic and military power and increased footprint across the Indo-Pacific.

This is the first study of the Ludendorff Offensives of 1918 based extensively on key German records presumed to be lost forever after Potsdam was bombed in 1944.

The book provides a pentapartite theoretical analysis of socio-economic factors as the grand basis for the evolution of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria.

This comprehensive volume provides a thorough overview of 20th- and 21st-century military doctrines worldwide.

This book examines the newly emergent field of military design thinking, how it has been developed inside and outside of military doctrine, and the paradigms that underlie its key thinkers and methodologies.