Theory of warfare and military science

This book analyses the various ways counterinsurgency in Afghanistan is gendered.

This book examines the US foreign policy of differentiation towards the socialist regimes of Eastern Europe as it was implemented by various administrations towards Ceausescu's Romania from 1969 to 1980.

Maritime issues are particularly important for Asian countries, where there is a high reliance on shipping routes for international trade, many difficult disputes over maritime boundaries, and the prospect of increasing tensions where maritime power might play a significant role.

A comprehensive exploration of contemporary debates in Just War Theory, addressing moral, political, and legal issues.

This edited volume presents a trans-disciplinary and multifaceted assessment of the strategic and economic impacts of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on three regions, namely Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Eastern Europe.

This book, first published in 1981, offers a critical review of the techniques of mathematical modelling and their appropriate application to military operations research - the analysis of data (historical data, exercise and test results, and intelligence) in preparation for war.

This book examines the role and importance of the Presidency in the formulation and conduct of US grand strategy.

Gegenstand des Bandes sind die Logistikpraktiken vor und während der kursächsischen und (kur)hannoverschen Feldzüge im ›Großen Türkenkrieg‹.

Political violence and instability in the Middle East is arguably the world's most important political issue.

As fought in 1950s Berlin, the cold war was a many-headed monster.

Public, press, and academic interest in the military justice system has increased over the past generation.

Written by leading historians and political scientists, this collection of essays offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the role of war in American history.

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

This book shows how one of the most powerful tools of security studies-strategic culture-illuminates the origins and implications of the Asia-Pacific region's difficult issues, from the rise of China and the American pivot, to the shifting calculations of many other actors.

The nuclear arms race had dominated international politics for the two decades prior to publication.

The book offers a vivid analysis of the new geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific in terms of big power rivalry between the US-China and country-wise perspectives situating largely within the late 2000s and culminates with the developments of the COVID-19 period.

Examining the relationship between humanitarianism, human rights, and security in the governance of borders and migration, this book analyses the case of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), challenging the common assumption that humanitarianism and human rights provide a critical basis for countering securitisation.

US Policy Towards Cuba is a comprehensive examination of U.

Exploring British naval policy during the first two governments of Harold Wilson (1964-70), this book analyses how the Navy Department of the Ministry of Defence and the Navy's professional leadership dealt with six years of defence reviews, retrenchment and strategic re-orientation.

Despite having been active in the region since the mid-1990s, the role of NATO in the Middle East has attracted particular attention since the events of 11th September 2001.

Saudi Arabia, the West and the Security of the Gulf (1986) considers the geopolitical environment of the Arab Gulf and the nature and threats to Western interests in the region.

This book is dualistic in its nature: it seeks to combine two approaches to the analysis and assessment of societal development prospects and to strengthen the capacity of each.

Is the appearance of new nuclear weapon states inevitable?

This book provides the first analysis of the Trilateral Commission and its role in global governance and contemporary diplomacy.

Strategic Survey 2022: The Annual Assessment of Geopolitics provides objective, in-depth analysis of the events that have shaped relations between major powers, region by region, over the past year, and highlights the pressing geopolitical and geo-economic challenges that will shape the international agenda in 2023.

This book explores the implications of drone warfare for the legitimacy of global order.

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How can countries decide what kind of military forces they need, if threats are uncertain and history is full of strategic surprises?

On the major European and Russian fronts throughout World War II, the challenge of crossing rivers under fire was absolutely central to any advance.

The Soviet Union and India (1989) examines the costs and benefits to the Soviet Union of its substantial economic and military involvement with India, and assesses how India fits into Soviet policies towards southwest Asia and China.

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

In today's information era, the use of specific words and language can serve as powerful tools that incite violence-or sanitize and conceal the ugliness of war.

This textbook provides a survey of East Asia during the Cold War from 1945 to 1991.

This book examines in detail the strategic relevance of the Arthashastra.

This book offers new and cutting-edge analyses of under-explored subjects and issues in the realm of soft power.

A unique look at European Network Enabled Capabilities (NEC) and their implications for transatlantic co-operation in future operations.

This book offers a reconceptualisation of conventional deterrence theory, and applies it to enduring rivalries in the Middle East.

This book locates US elites as members of corporate elite networks and drivers of corporate elite interests, arguing that studying the social sources of US power plays an important part in understanding the nature of their decisions in US foreign policy.

How does one engage in the study of strategy?

This book examines public perceptions of the legitimacy of drones, and how this affects countries' policies on and the global governance of drone warfare.

Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and its potential in situations of violent conflict.

This book explores the military strategies of the five system-determining great powers during the twenty-first century.

For decades, the rational actor model served as the preferred guide for U.

Why have the European Union and the Russian Federation encountered severe difficulties in developing their relationship?

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

This edited volume explores the theoretical and practical implications of war and terror situations for citizenship in democratic states.

The Armed Conflict Survey provides in-depth analysis of the political, military and humanitarian dimensions of all major armed conflicts, as well as data on fatalities, refugees and internally displaced persons.

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

This book, first published in 1981, is an analysis of the Soviet Union's military strategy, taking in both sides of the 'hawks' and 'doves' views of the USSR's intentions.

This book examines the local and international dynamics and strategies that have come to define the often violent relationship between Israel and Lebanon.