Theory of warfare and military science

This book presents a systematic comparison of the military strategies pursued by five great powers, eight major middle powers and eight middle powers during the early twenty-first century.

At the time of America's 2003 invasion of Iraq, the term "e;neoconservative"e; was enjoying wide currency.

Is Japan re-emerging as a normal, or even a great, military power in regional and global security affairs?

Technology has always played a central role in international politics; it shapes the ways states fight during wartime and compete during peacetime.

This book offers a strategic analysis of one of the most outstanding military careers in history, identifying the most pertinent strategic lessons from the campaigns of Alexander the Great.

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

Academic studies of 'terrorism' grew exponentially in number after the September 11 attacks.

This book provides an institutional costs framework for intelligence and security communities to examine the factors that can encourage or obstruct cooperation.

Energy Reviews: Unified Gas Supply System of the USSR (1985) explores some important aspects of the development and operation of the unified gas system of the Soviet Union.

This book puts military doctrine into a wider perspective, drawing on military history, philosophy, and political science.

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

This book examines NATO's transition from a Cold War mutual defence organization into a global alliance, and puts the recent crisis over the Afghanistan mission in the context of long-standing debates over out-of-area interventions.

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.

Regional inter-governmental human rights organizations have been in operation for sometime in Europe, the Americas and Africa.

At the heart of this book is the problem of war termination.

This book offers a new research agenda for intelligence studies in contemporary times.

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.

Why has history so often turned the economic and political hierarchy of nations topsy-turvy?

Starting from the key concept of geo-economics, this book investigates the new power politics and argues that the changing structural features of the contemporary international system are recasting the strategic imperatives of foreign policy practice.

This book investigates several aspects of military power and security in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions.

Volume II of The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent provides an authoritative and in-depth examination of the British government's strategic nuclear policy from 1964 to 1970.

This volume describes how technological and geo-political trends are rapidly transforming maritime affairs.

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives.

This book examines the shape, sources and dangers of information warfare (IW) as it pertains to military, diplomatic and civilian stakeholders.

Strategic Hedging in the Arab Peninsula: The Politics of the Gulf-Asian Rapprochement offers a new perspective on the geopolitics of Gulf-Asian relations.

Rapid technological advances in the field of robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) are transforming the international security environment and the conduct of contemporary conflict.

The crypto wars have raged for half a century.

In the light of new archival material the editors take a fresh look at Russian aviation in the twentieth century.

This book addresses the inadequacies of just war theory and international law regarding civilian rights, developing new principles of individual restorative justice.

This book, first published in 1963, is an analysis of modern warfare in the enemy's rear, written by the leading authority on irregular warfare, and stemming from a close examination of real-life examples.

Artificial intelligence (AI) may be the most beneficial technological development of the twenty-first century.

Understanding NATO in the 21st Century enhances existing strategic debates and clarifies thinking as to the direction and scope of NATO's potential evolution in the 21st century.

This volume re-examines the evidence surrounding the rise and fall of peacekeeping policy during the first Clinton Administration.

This edited volume explores and analyses strategic thinking, military reform and adaptation in an era of Asian growth, European austerity and US rebalancing.

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

This book explains how military coalitions form, as well as their implications for war, peace, and the spread of conflicts.

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

For the third year running, this book, originally published in 1984, provided those actively concerned with the dangers of war at the time, with well-researched and up-to-date information on military developments of every kind.

This volume investigates secret diplomacy with the aim of understanding its role in shaping foreign policy.

This volume focuses on Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and IDPs in South Asia.

This book is the first comprehensive study of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI).

Leadership Selection and Patron-Client Relations in the USSR and Yugoslavia (1983) examines the system of nomenklatura, the semi-secret network of quasi-bureaucratic rules and personal relationships through which careers in Soviet politics were managed.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has elaborated its own philosophy of security.

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.

Presents the first full-length study of one of Britain''s most important military thinkers, Major-General Sir Charles E.

Global Jihadism exposes the core doctrine and strategy of today's global Jihadist movement.

Military, economic, and environmental violence in the era of globalization cause immense suffering and may ultimately threaten the existence of life as we know it, but author Pilisuk explains that the future can change if we understand and act upon the roots of violence.

This book provides an overview of the establishment, dispersion and effects of human rights in Europe during the Cold War.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of North Korea's nuclear strategies and of the decisions which explain its strategic motivations.

This book sets out the big data landscape, comprising data abundance, digital connectivity and ubiquitous technology, and shows how the big data landscape and the emerging technologies it fuels are impacting national security.