Theory of warfare and military science

This book examines British naval diplomacy from the end of the Crimean War to the American Civil War, showing how the mid-Victorian Royal Navy suffered serious challenges during the period.

The Indian Ocean is of tremendous geo-political and strategic relevance.

This textbook is designed to be used by those tackling the complex and challenging issues of security sector reform (SSR).

This edited volume presents the foremost scholarly thinking on why the US invaded Iraq in 2003, a pivotal event in both modern US foreign policy and international politics.

This new study casts fresh light on the roles of Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev and their efforts to achieve a compromise settlement on the pivotal Berlin Crisis.

As the activities of individuals, organizations, and nations increasingly occur in cyberspace, the security of those activities is becoming a growing concern.

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

Despite publicity given to the successes of British and American codebreakers during the Second World War, the study of signals intelligence is still complicated by governmental secrecy over even the most elderly peacetime sigint.

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

This book examines the changes in Indonesian foreign policy during the 21st century as it seeks to position itself as a great power in the Indo-Pacific region.

Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which intelligence was used to inform policy.

Law, Force and Diplomacy at Sea, first published in 1985, is one of the few comprehensive treatments on the subject from a strategic perspective.

This book, first published in 1987, examines the experience of the North Vietnamese economy during the struggle for national reunification and the Vietnam war.

This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era was among the first major published analyses by an American expert on the insurgency in Indochina.

Will tomorrow's wars be dominated by autonomous drones, land robots and warriors wired into a cybernetic network which can read their thoughts?

This edited volume uses newly released archival material to show linkages between the development of the European Union and the Cold War.

This book analyses China's maritime strategy for the 21st century, integrating strategic planning, policy thinking and strategic prediction.

With particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region, this book examines the rise and fall of sea powers.

This book explains why China chooses to coerce Asia-Pacific regional states, despite the risk of such actions creating a backlash and complicating its strategic calculus.

This book studies India's evolving naval engagements with other nations of the Indian Ocean region.

This volume offers a coherent analysis of the European Union's security strategies within a comparative framework.

This book, first published in 1993, examines the security concerns of the Central European countries in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War.

This book examines Winston Churchill's role in the creation and development of the Anglo-American special relationship.

This book explores the relationship between the developing India-US strategic Partnership and Pakistan's security.

This book explores the idea of arevolution in military affairs (RMA), which underpins the transformational agenda of the US military, and examines its implications for smaller states.

This volume looks at current and emerging technologies of war and some of the ethical issues surrounding their use.

This book examines how the United States's extensive nation-building and stability operations will continue to evolve in the 21st century in the face of ever-growing budgetary concerns and constraints.

How can peace be brokered between warring sides in conflicts over self-determination and what roles do external third parties play?

Clausewitz's On War has, at least until very recently, been regarded as the most important work of theory on its subject.

The Soviet Union and Egypt, first published in 1993, sheds new light on Soviet policy towards the Middle East after 1945.

Learning War examines the U.

In this book, a former US Department of State senior arms control official critically analyses two pivotal nuclear arms control treaties: the established Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the rising Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

This comprehensive work provides a treasure trove of ways to seek, find, and use the power of will to gain an advantage over one's opponents in mental conflicts.

This volume provides materials for active learning about peacebuilding and conflict management in the context of complex stability operations.

The story of Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is one of consistent support and involvement but of varying levels of military and diplomatic engagement.

This book examines the creation of 'national armies' through compulsory military service in France and Prussia during the French Revolution and the Prussian Reform Period.

The IRA is one of the oldest terrorist organizations in the world and conducted a ferociously violent campaign for almost thirty years.

Intensifying geopolitical rivalries, rising defence spending and the proliferation of the latest military technology across Asia suggest that the region is set for a prolonged period of strategic contestation.

This book, first published in 1989, examines the creation and implementation of Communist policy in Vietnam during the crucial period between the 1954 Geneva Conference and the establishment of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam in December 1960.

This well-researched book details the ambiguity in British policy towards Europe in the Cold War as it sought to pursue detente with the Soviet Union whilst upholding its commitments to its NATO allies.

This topical volume offers a comprehensive review of secret intelligence organizations and activities.

This book analyzes the civil war in Yemen and how intervening external actors have shaped the trajectory of the conflict.

Concerns about China's ambitions to return to global centre stage as a great power have recently begun to focus on the Digital Silk Road (DSR), an umbrella term for various activities - commercial and diplomatic - of interest to the Chinese government in the cyber realm.

A vital component of the interdependent global economy, maritime transit routes are nowhere more critical than those traversing the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific.

The Military Balance has been published annually since 1959.

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.

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

This book offers an accessible introduction to the U.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the strategic history of the past two centuries, showing how those 200 years were shaped and reshaped extensively by war.

There are important changes in regional and global demographics ahead of us.