Theory of warfare and military science

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

What constitutes an effective and realistic strategy for dealing with non-state armed groups?

The Chinese Army Today is a comprehensive study of the Chinese military, examining its ground forces in a level of detail not found in any other contemporary works.

Indian Ocean studies, which once lagged behind studies of the Atlantic and the Pacific, is an important emerging academic field which has come into its own.

This volume presents a collection of diplomatic documents describing Britain's relations with Eastern Europe from 1979 to 1982, with special focus on the crisis in Poland.

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.

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.

This book is the first full history of South African intelligence and provides a detailed examination of the various stages in the evolution of South Africa's intelligence organizations and structures.

This book presents a detailed assessment of the role of navies in the Korean War.

This updated and expanded edition of Cyberspace in Peace and War by Martin C.

This book explores the question "e;Why is the US Navy in the South China Sea at all?

Mahan on Naval Strategy, available in paperback for the first time, provides a selection of key writings from one of the greatest naval theorists of all time.

This book offers an examination of the effectiveness of Western military interventions in the post-Cold War era.

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

This book considers the theoretical, policy and empirical arguments relevant to the debate concerning the legalisation of interrogational torture.

This book traces the history of private military companies, with a special focus on UK private forces.

This book examines the nature and character of naval expeditionary warfare, in particular in peripheral campaigns, and the contribution of such campaigns to the achievement of strategic victory.

As scholars and publics look for alternatives to what is understood as a violent Western world order, many claim that China can provide such an alternative through the Chinese dream of a harmonious world.

Islam in the Balance: Ideational Threats in Arab Politics is an analysis of how ideas, or political ideology, can threaten states and how states react to ideational threats.

This book offers an overview of the interface between European integration, transatlantic relations, and the 'rise of the rest' in the early 21st century.

This book presents a collection of new and updated essays on what has come to be known as the territorial explanation of war.

This volume examines the ethical issues generated by recent developments in intelligence collection and offers a comprehensive analysis of the key legal, moral and social questions thereby raised.

New advances in neuroscience promise innovations in national security, especially in the areas of law enforcement, intelligence collection, and armed conflict.

Recent challenges to US maritime predominance suggests a return to great power competition at sea, and this new volume looks at how navies in previous eras of multipolarity grappled with similar challenges.

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.

This new book provides a framework for understanding the international relations of armed groups, including terrorist organizations, insurgencies and warlords, which play an increasingly important role in the international system.

This book explains how the US military reacted to the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA), and failed to innovate its organization or doctrine to match the technological breakthroughs it brought about.

This book sheds new light on the foreign policies, roles, and positions of neutral states and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in the global Cold War.

The North Pole is being transformed from a sea-ice cap to a seasonally ice-free sea within the next few decades.

This book argues that Europe, through the European Union (EU), should act as a great power in the 21st century.

This book, first published in 1983, contains articles written as a result of the UN 1978-81 study on the relationship between disarmament and development.

In September 2018, the 73rd General Assembly of the United Nations acknowledged that international instability is increasing and that improving global security is among the most important tasks facing the world today.

This new book looks at the relationship between the Israeli armed forces, the government, and the origins of the 1967 War.

Resilience has become a central concept in government policy understandings over the last decade.

With essays from leading names in military history, this new book re-examines the crucial issues and debates of the D-Day campaign.

How has North Korea sought to normalize diplomatic relations with the US?

Iran is the only Middle Eastern state to have preserved its national identity through the upheavals of Arab, Turkish and Mongol invasions.

This book focuses on the key naval strategic objectives of obtaining and maintaining sea control.

In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men.

Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Nineteenth Century examines insurgency and counterinsurgency across the globe in the nineteenth century.

This book examines the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) as a commercial insurgency through the network-complex paradigm of insurgency.

This volume develops information strategy as a construct equal in importance to military strategy as an influential tool of statecraft.

Critical Practices in International Theory brings together for the first time the essays of the leading IR theorist, James Der Derian.

At no time since the end of the Cold War has interest been higher in Russian security issues and the role played in this by the modernization of Russia's Armed Forces.

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.

Contemporary European Security explores the complex European security architecture and introduces students to the empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches to studying the subject.

This book examines the nature and implications of the increasing interaction among three secondary powers in the world: China, Russia and India.

This book examines India's nuclear program, and it shows how secrecy inhibits learning in states and corrodes the capacity of decision-makers to generate optimal policy choices.

Exploring NATO's post-Cold War determination to support democracy abroad, this book addresses the alliance's adaptation to the new illiberal backlashes in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans and Afghanistan after the alleged 'return of history'.