Theory of warfare and military science

Soviet Agriculture in Perspective (1969) examines the framework within which Soviet agriculture had to operate from the start: the dilemma of a revolutionary regime in a backward peasant country, the straightjacket of a bureaucratic system inherited from Tsarism, made even more rigid by the internal tensions of the new society, and the imperative needs of economic development.

Turkish Intelligence and the Cold War examines the hitherto unexplored history of secret intelligence cooperation between three asymmetric partners specifically the UK, US and Turkey from the end of the Second World War until the Turkey's first military coup d' tat on 27 May 1960.

Sovereignty and jurisdiction are legal doctrines of a complex nature, which have been subject to differing interpretations by scholars in legal literature.

- Introduction by SAS and Gulf War hero Andy McNab DCM MM- The 1862 version of The Art of War- Translated from French by Capt GH Mendell and Lieut WP Craighill- Contains all of Jomini s original maps and diagrams- Beautifully formatted in this Apostrophe Books editionKnown as the founder of modern strategy, Swiss military tactician Jomini put his considerable powers into a system to destroy the enemy in the most efficient manner.

Local Government in the Soviet Union (1987) analyses the Soviet Union's limited success in improving local government between in the 1960s to 1980s, as the country made a drive toward centralized policy control.

The Enigma of Soviet Petroleum (1980) provides an analysis of the relevance of the Soviet planning system to oil production levels: why it is that planning has been the source of so many petroleum industry problems, and the nature of the measures that are being taken to overcome them.

This volume focuses on the interconnections between the Cold War, technological innovation and globalization.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the use of airpower in the first year of the Ukraine conflict.

This book investigates the challenges related to civil-military cooperation (CIMIC) and offers a new perspective by examining the social role of NATO CIMIC soldiers.

This book, first published in 1955, analyses views common to liberal and socialist, American and European, supporters of planning in the Cold War era.

This book explores the privatization of space and its global impact on the future of commerce, peace and conflict.

This book, first published in 1980, presents the findings of the SIPRI-organized 1979 international symposium on the destruction and conversion of chemical weapons.

Global and Regional Strategies in the Middle East explores hegemony in the Middle East through understanding different dimensions of power politics and the consequences of the hegemonic ambitions of both global and regional powers.

In May 2013, China, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea (Asia 5) were given status as permanent observers in the Arctic Council.

This book, first published in 1985, analyses the polarization of popular opinion over NATO defence policies during the latter years of the Cold War.

Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War documents the use of antipersonnel chemical weapons throughout the Vietnam War, and explores their effectiveness under the wide variety of circumstances in which they were employed.

Mit dem Ende der DDR und Deutschlands Wiedervereinigung vor drei Jahrzehnten hörte auch die Nationale Volksarmee auf, eine Streitmacht zu sein.

This book explores colonial and post-colonial intelligence services in South Asia.

During recent years, in its traditional role as an important Asia-Pacific regional power, Australia has had to cope with a rapidly changing external security environment and a series of new challenges, including a rising China, an increasingly assertive United States, and most notably the Global War against Terror.

There is a widely held belief in the imminent probability of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists against civilian targets.

While many scholars agree that Clausewitz's On War is frequently misunderstood, almost none have explored his methodology to see whether it might enhance our understanding of his concepts.

The Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies provides a broad overview of the growing field of intelligence studies.

This book, first published in 1990, presents a fundamental reassessment of maritime strategy.

Global Governance Futures addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements.

This book highlights how resource constraints and client agency impact China's patronage policy in their pursuit of regional geopolitical power.

With the death of Professor Sir Michael Howard, The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) lost not only its president emeritus but the last of its founders and intellectual parents.

Are the United States and China on a collision course?

On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops.

In July 2015, eight parties - France, Germany and the United Kingdom, together with the European Union and China, Russia and the United States on the one side, and Iran on the other - adopted the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the Iran nuclear deal.

This volume offers a critical historical assessment of the negotiation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and of the origins of the nonproliferation regime.

This book offers a new explanation of military power, highlighting the role of uncertainty in the creation of combat capabilities.

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.

In State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary, William Walters calls for secrecy to be given a more central place in critical security studies and elevated to become a core concept when theorising power in liberal democracies.

This edited volume provides an overview on US involvement in Iraq from the 1958 Iraqi coup to the present-day, offering a deeper context to the current conflict.

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

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

This book examines Pakistan's strategies in the war against Islamist armed groups that began late 2001, following the 9/11 attacks.

We live in a world that is ever on the move, as is increasingly recognised within research on mobilities.

This interdisciplinary book examines the impact of the commercialisation of space and the changing outlook of the space sector.

This book, first published in 1999, compares the strategies of France and Japan in trying to win economic and political influence in the newly emerging Vietnam, which opened to the international community only after the Vietnamese Communist Party had started economic reforms in 1986.

Venezuela's Oil (1978) explains the years of social injustice faced by oil-producing countries that led to the founding of OPEC.

Internal security is often hailed as a rapidly expanding area of European integration, with a growing number of strategies, policies and framework agreements in recent years.

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While espionage between states is a practice dating back centuries, the emergence of the internet revolutionised the types and scale of intelligence activities, creating drastic new challenges for the traditional legal frameworks governing them.

This book considers some of the most notable aspects of the legal response to the "e;war on terror"e; post- 9/11 and the use of technology to support them.

Written by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and international relations, this book examines 'the problem of order' arising from the existence of weapons of mass destruction.

Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science and catastrophe to shape the meaning of historic events.

Fresh from successful flights before royalty in Europe, and soon after thrilling hundreds of thousands of people by flying around the Statue of Liberty, in the fall of 1909 Wilbur and Orville Wright decided the time was right to begin manufacturing their airplanes for sale.

This book challenges the dominant strategic culture and makes the case for restraint in US grand strategy in the 21st century.

This book explores whether the new capabilities made possible by precision-strike technologies are reshaping approaches to international intervention.