Theory of warfare and military science

Between June 1812 and January 1815, US and British forces, notably the regular infantrymen of both sides (including the Canadian Fencibles Regiment), fought one another on a host of North American battlefields.

The Routledge Handbook of Political Risk explores the context, analysis, and management of political risk arising from recent tectonic geopolitical challenges to the world order posed by pandemics, nationalist policy interventions, changing supply chains, technological transformation, and the climate crisis.

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.

Global and Regional Strategies in the Middle East explores hegemony in the Middle East through understanding different dimensions of power politics and the consequences of the hegemonic ambitions of both global and regional powers.

This illustrated e-book is meticulously edited and formatted to the highest digital standard.

Sherman's March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War.

A military intelligence expert makes a persuasive case for leadership reform with in-depth analysis of operations and how they went wrong.

Managing Intelligence: A Guide for Law Enforcement Professionals is designed to assist practitioners and agencies build an efficient system to gather and manage intelligence effectively and lawfully in line with the principles of intelligence-led policing.

After 9/11, the initial focus from the U.

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

After 9/11, the initial focus from the U.

Most studies of Asia-Pacific security are marked by pessimism and continuing belief in the virtues of a balance of power.

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

This book offers a comprehensive examination of historical Norwegian and allied airborne maritime surveillance operations in the North Atlantic, after World War II until the present.

This book explores Indian nuclear diplomacy in post May 1998 and deconstructs the discourse presented in public and private sphere.

Clausewitz's On War, first published in 1832, remains the most famous study of the nature and conditions of warfare.

The definitive history of warfare told by Britain's foremost military historian.

This unique and penetrating book surveys 100 years of military inefficiency from the Crimean War, through the Boer conflict, to the disasterous campaigns of the First World War and the calamities of the Second.

Written by leading scholars in the field, Causes of War provides the first comprehensive analysis of the leading theories relating to the origins of both interstate and civil wars.

Written by leading scholars in the field, Causes of War provides the first comprehensive analysis of the leading theories relating to the origins of both interstate and civil wars.

Despite the centrality of war in social and political thought, the military remains marginal in academic and public conceptions of citizenship, and the soldier seems to be thought of as a peripheral or even exceptional player.

Warfare is hugely important.

In 'The Roots of War and Terror', Anthony Stevens provides profound insights into the nature and origins of armed conflict.

Warfare is hugely important.

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

Why is the problem of terrorism-and the emergence of more extreme and more brutal terrorist groups-one that cannot be solved, even after decades of trying?

In the history of warfare, an elite group of men have attained almost legendary status through their courage, ambition and unrivalled military genius.

The Iraq War remains highly controversial, but in all the uncertainty about weapons of mass destruction, the use and misuse of intelligence, it remains an awesome military and political event and a formidable exercise in American power aided by the British army.

The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare.

EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT WAR IS WRONG.

A visual guide to the tactics, campaigns, and genius of the greatest military commanders in historyFrom Alexander the Great's conquest of the known world right up to the generals leading today's campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, Commanders casts new light on the leaders who have forged history on the battlefield.

Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability is the first large-scale examination of how local media outlets cover members of the United States Congress.

In war, do mass and materiel matter most?

THE BRAND NEW REBUS THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER.

In State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary, William Walters calls for secrecy to be given a more central place in critical security studies and elevated to become a core concept when theorising power in liberal democracies.

In State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary, William Walters calls for secrecy to be given a more central place in critical security studies and elevated to become a core concept when theorising power in liberal democracies.

This book explores the challenges leaders in intelligence communities face in an increasingly complex security environment and how to develop future leaders to deal with these issues.

This book explores the challenges leaders in intelligence communities face in an increasingly complex security environment and how to develop future leaders to deal with these issues.

This collection of essays combines historical research with cutting-edge strategic analysis and makes a significant contribution to the study of the early history of strategic thinking.

This collection of essays combines historical research with cutting-edge strategic analysis and makes a significant contribution to the study of the early history of strategic thinking.

This book presents a cutting-edge assessment of NATO's collective defence strategies in the immediate aftermath of the July 2016 NATO Warsaw Summit.

This book presents a cutting-edge assessment of NATO's collective defence strategies in the immediate aftermath of the July 2016 NATO Warsaw Summit.

This volume explores the contemporary challenges to US national cybersecurity.

This volume explores the contemporary challenges to US national cybersecurity.

Scholars and policy makers have traditionally viewed portions of the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific as separate and discrete political, economic, and military regions.

Scholars and policy makers have traditionally viewed portions of the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific as separate and discrete political, economic, and military regions.

Nuclear weapons are the elusive 'toys' of modern warfare and are hankered after by every Middle Eastern government.

Nuclear weapons are the elusive 'toys' of modern warfare and are hankered after by every Middle Eastern government.

This volume brings together some of Professor Azar Gat's most significant articles on the evolution of strategic doctrines and the transformation of war during the 20th and early 21st centuries.