Theory of warfare and military science

This book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of how climate change is impacting conflicts, contention, and competition in the world.

Introduction to Intelligence Studies (third edition) provides an overview of the US intelligence community, to include its history, organization, and function.

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 book offers a timely and critical reflection on how states have responded to the test of terrorism in the long shadow of 9/11.

Which event better characterises British military interventions: the trauma of Suez or the triumph of the Falklands?

This book, first published in 1978, analyses the development, uses and effects of conventional anti-personnel weapons such as rifles and machine guns, grenades, bombs, shells and mines.

The debate on no-first-use of nuclear weapons has been conducted on a number of fronts.

The Bush Doctrine is dead!

This book seeks to identify and address gaps in our understanding of maritime security and the role of small navies in Europe.

The Soviet Far East (1957) examines the Soviet economic and political development of the Russian Far East between Lake Baikal and the Pacific, as it gained importance as the geographic base of Soviet power in the Far Eastern theatre of international politics and strategy.

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

This book explores the long-term impact on democracy and institution-building in post-conflict and transitory societies, stemming from the political integration of former combatants of intra-state armed groups.

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 analyzes when, how, why, and to what effect China has used its armed forces in recent decades to coerce other actors in the international system.

This book offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-national approach to defining key elements required to define power within the maritime domain.

This book reconstructs and explains the arms relationship that successive U.

This book explores the interrelationship between terrorism and policy relevance from a range of critical perspectives.

This new handbook provides a wide-ranging overview of the current state of academic analysis and debate on insurgency and counterinsurgency, as well as an-up-to date survey of contemporary insurgent movements and counter-insurgencies.

This book addresses the issue of grand strategic stability in the 21st century, and examines the role of the key centres of global power - US, EU, Russia, China and India - in managing contemporary strategic threats.

This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of the development and importance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), its role in international relations and its influence on history.

The Limits of Destalinization in the Soviet Union (1986) examines the forms, aspects and significance of the phenomenon of rehabilitation in the Soviet Union between 1953 and 1980, when victims of Stalin's terror were released from camps or posthumously rehabilitated.

This book investigates how borders in former Soviet Union territories have evolved and shifted in the thirty years since the end of the Cold War.

This updated and expanded fourth edition of Chinese Foreign Policy seeks to examine the decision-makers, processes, and rationales behind China's expanding international relations as well as offering an in-depth look at China's modern global relations.

A much-needed survey and synopsis of literature on strategic culture and ways of war.

Provides an accessible, scholarly, and up-to-date examination of international humanitarian law.

Chronology of Venezuelan Oil (1969) covers all aspects of the Venezuelan petroleum industry's historical evolution: technical, legal, economic, social and political to create a reference source for scholars, teachers, executives, professionals and technicians, as well as students of the industry.

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

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.

Perspectives on the American Way of War examines salient cases of American experience in irregular warfare, focusing upon the post-World War II era.

This volume brings together a collection of leading international experts to revisit and review our understanding of the Cuban Missile Crisis, via a critical reappraisal of some of the key texts.

Agricultural Co-operation in the Soviet Union (1929) examines agriculture in the USSR as the government was restructuring all national economic life and enterprise on a state socialist basis.

A fascinating collection of British foreign policy documents covering reactions in Whitehall to political change and revolution in the Mediterranean basin from 1973 to 1976.

Codenames were a vital feature of World War II, serving as mental shorthand for those in the know, and obscuring the issues for those who were not.

Perhaps the most famous and admired soldier to fight in World War II was Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who achieved immortality as the Desert Fox.

This new collection explores the origins and key issues of the Third Indochina War, which began in 1979.

This book examines the rise of great power competition in space, including the relevant and practical space strategies for China, Russia, the United States, and other countries.

Air power has been one of the key elements in modern warfare.

There is now a major new interest in ethical issues about warfare emerging from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, conflict in Syria and Libya, the war on terror, and the introduction of new weapon systems, such as unmanned drones.

This is a new examination of Halford Mackinder's seminal global geostrategic work, from the perspective of geography, diplomatic history, political science, international relations, imperial history, and the space age.

The intensification of the Iranian and North Korean nuclear crises has created new fears that deteriorating security conditions in the Middle East, Northeast Asia, and other regions will lead additional countries to seek their own nuclear arsenals in the years to come.

This book considers whether the United States and the People's Republic of China have irreconcilable visions of world order.

This book explores and compares the contemporary military cultures of the United States and the United Kingdom.

This volume explores East Asian intellectual traditions and their influence on contemporary discussions of the ethics of war and peace.

The Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies provides a comprehensive collection of essays on contemporary defence studies by leading international scholars.

Taiwan's position looks increasingly precarious, and tensions threaten to grow into a major strategic crisis.

This book develops a new approach in explaining how a nation's Grand Strategy is constituted, how to assess its merits, and how grand strategies may be comparatively evaluated within a broader framework.

This volume is comprised of a collection of diplomatic documents covering British reactions to, and policy towards, the collapse of the German Democratic Republic and the unification of Germany in 1989-90.

Throughout history, war seems to have had an iron grip on humanity.