Theory of warfare and military science

This book analyzes how the Egyptian intelligence community has adapted to shifting national security threats since its inception 100 years ago.

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 argues for reform of the convention that, when politicians decide on a course of action, the general in supreme command obeys without question.

This book, first published in 1954, is a key analysis of the guiding policies, basic assumptions, fundamental principles and methods of the Red Army, in many respects the most powerful force in the Cold War.

The spectres of Marx and Lenin have long loomed prominently in Africa and Asia and they still do so in the 21st century.

Exploring how the U.

This dictionary provides a comprehensive and ready guide to the key concepts, issues, persons, and technologies related to the nuclear programmes of India and Pakistan and other South Asian states.

This book extends principal-agent theory to the case of pro-Russian rebel militias in Eastern Ukraine.

This book assesses how progress in disarmament diplomacy in the last decade has improved human security.

John Ferris' work in strategic and intelligence history is widely praised for its originality and the breadth of its research.

This book explores China's approach to the nuclear programs in Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea.

This book examines NATO's engagement with gender issues through its military structures.

Territory is back with a vengeance.

This book brings together recent research on the end of the Cold War in the Third World and engages with ongoing debates about regional conflicts, the role of great powers in the developing world, and the role of international actors in conflict resolution.

The Soviet Secret Police (1957) depicts the main aspects of the development, structure and functions of the secret police of the Soviet Union.

This new study brings together leading experts to show how the modern world began with the coming of the railway.

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.

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This book describes and analyses two iconic figures in twentieth-century naval history: the German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz and the Russian Admiral Sergei Gorshkov.

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

A scientific explanation of the onset and expansion of war and the conditions of peace.

Many books and articles have been written on wars in narrow seas.

Explores the emergence of targeted killing in Israeli and US statecraft, and in the international law of force.

This book analyses the importance of the G20 to India, its role so far, and how it can leverage its presidency year to be an influential author of new global rules.

This book tracks post 9/11 developments in national security and policing intelligence and their relevance to new emerging areas of intelligence practice such as: corrections, biosecurity, private industry and regulatory environments.

The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Sanctions examines the core issues and debates surrounding this controversial topic, introducing readers to essential concepts and terms.

The Seven Years War has been described as the first global conflict in history.

Drawing on Iran's history and its relations with great powers and regional neighbours, this book addresses the question of how much continuity and/or change there is in Iranian international relations since the Iranian revolution.

This book examines transatlantic politics through an analysis of 60 years of US-European strategic interaction in space.

This volume documents the British Government's response from mid-1946 to early 1948 to the twin challenges of economic recovery and the search for a meaningful Western security framework in the face of the increasing polarisation of Europe into Eastern and Western spheres of influence.

This book examines military and civilian actors in international interventions and offers a new analytical framework to apply on such interventions.

This book offers a timely and concise academic and historical background to the concept and practice of neutrality, a relatively new phenomenon in foreign and security policy.

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

This book looks at the prospects for international cooperation over nuclear weapons proliferation in the 21st century.

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.

Contemporary Soviet Government (1975) is a leading study of the practice of Soviet government, examined against a background of Soviet Marxism.

This volume examines the connection between culture and defence by providing an inside look at Brazil's aerospace strategies.

This is the first comprehensive study based on a detailed textual analysis of the classical works on war by Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, Mao Tse-tung, and to a lesser extent, Jomini and Machiavelli.

The South China Sea has long been regarded as a major source of tension and instability in East Asia.

The National Research Council's Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) provides biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of the research, development, and analysis programs at the Army Research Laboratory, focusing on ballistics sciences, human sciences, information sciences, materials sciences, and mechanical sciences.

This book examines the puzzle of why some states acquire nuclear weapons, whereas others refrain from trying to do so - or even renounce them.

The Oil Industry in India (1971) examines the issues relating to the oil industry of an oil-importing country, and was the first of its kind.

Overseas military bases have been the bedrock of the United States' ability to project military power, exert political influence and deter potential adversaries since the Second World War.

This book, first published in 1986, argues that there is a special category of medium powers in the world - such as Britain, France, India, Brazil, Japan, China and others - which have sufficient military power to do something to protect their interests but which are not a match for the superpowers.

This book examines North Korea's nuclear diplomacy over a long time period from the early 1960s, setting its dangerous brinkmanship in the wider context of North Korea's military and diplomatic campaigns to achieve its political goals.

This book, first published in 1961, is an analysis of the great struggle of the twentieth century, the Cold War.

This book explores the use of deadly force by private security companies during the Iraq War.

This comprehensive overview examines the many facets of military ethics as they are applied during times of armed conflict and times of peace.

The Soviet Economy on the Brink of Reform (1988) is a collection of essays in honour of Alec Nove and covers such topics as Leon Trotsky, Navrozov, Soviet Investment criteria, Soviet Agricultural, and economic politics under Andropov and Chernenko.

Autonomous weapons systems seem to be on the path to becoming accepted technologies of warfare.