Theory of warfare and military science

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY'A masterpiece.

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

This book examines the permissibility and effectiveness of targeted killing in campaigns against terror.

Argues that war crimes are best understood as crimes against humanness rather than violations of justice.

Developing Intelligence Theory analyses the current state of intelligence theorisation, provides a guide to a range of approaches and perspectives, and points towards future research agendas in this field.

This book examines the complex practice of counter-insurgency warfare through the prism of British military experiences in the post-war era and endeavours to unpack their performance.

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.

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.

After a million deaths and twice that number injured, after the destruction of much of the infrastructure of Iran and Iraq, disruption of trade throughout the Gulf and the involvement of the USA and USSR, was the Gulf War a pointless exercise, a futile conflict which achieved nothing and left the combatants at the end of it all back in exactly the same position from which they started in 1980?

After 9/11, the initial focus from the U.

John Boyd is often known exclusively for the so-called 'OODA' loop model he developed.

Originally published in 1983, this book presents both the technical and political information necessary to evaluate the emerging threat to world security posed by recent advances in uranium enrichment technology.

Since the early 1990s, there has been an emphasis in international relations theory on the shift from a Cold War rationality of 'threat', to a post-Cold War rationality of 'risk'.

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

Ending War: A Dialogue across Disciplines examines how wars end from a multidisciplinary perspective and includes enquiries into the politics of war, the laws of war, and the military and intellectual history of war.

This book aims to redefine maritime diplomacy for the modern era.

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.

This book, first published in 1990, examines the nature and causes of the changes to Soviet national security policy under Gorbachev.

This book, first published in 1978, examines the military use of space - around 60 per cent of US and Soviet satellites were military ones.

How do aspiring and established rising global powers respond to conflict?

The United States-Australia alliance has been an important component of the US-led system of alliances that has underpinned regional security in the Indo-Pacific since 1945.

From De Gaulle onwards, France's strategic independence has been predicated on self-sufficiency in modern weapons.

First published in 1986, the purpose of this dictionary is to clarify the technology behind nuclear jargon.

First published in 1988, Science, Politics and the Cold War is a history of the cold-war era that demonstrates the extent to which science and scientists have been implicated in every aspect of the political process.

This book provides an overview of the establishment, dispersion and effects of human rights in Europe during the Cold War.

This three-volume set of previously out-of-print titles closely examines three key aspects of Muslim Spain: the Muslim conquest and settlement, together with its political and economic administration; spirituality in the region; and El Cid and the Spanish reconquest.

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

Broadly defined as the grey area between strategy and tactics, operational art spans the theory and practice of planning and conducting campaigns and major operations aimed at accomplishing strategic and operational objectives in a given theatre of operations.

The recent Afghanistan and Iraq wars were very controversial.

This book, first published in 1985, examines the Cold War risks of superpower confrontations, mainly in the Third World, resulting in war in Europe.

This book explores the process by which defence policy is made in contemporary Britain and the institutions, actors and conflicting interests which interact in its inception and continuous reformulation.

Published each year since 1959, The Military Balance is an indispensable reference to the capabilities of armed forces across the globe.

This new handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the issues facing naval strategy and security in the twenty-first century.

This well-researched volume examines the Sino-Vietnamese hostilities of the late 1970s and 1980s, attempting to understand them as strategic, operational and tactical events.

Geneva and the Drift to War (1938) is based on the work of the 1937 session of the Geneva Institute of International Relations, which brought together men and women from all parts of the world to pool the results of their studies in international affairs, their experience of international administration, or their personal knowledge of international politics.

This edited volume is the first detailed exploration of the last phase of the Cold War, taking a critical look at the crisis of detente in Europe in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Carl von Clausewitz has long been interpreted as the paradigmatic thinker of major interstate war.

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.

This book explores the conditions under which Nuclear Weapons Free Zones (NWFZs) can be established.

Defence against military attack has had a considerable geographical impact.

Drones have become the controversial new weapon of choice for the US military abroad.

Originally published in 1986, although the pace of arms control negotiations has been stepped up, there is still little sign of agreement.

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.

This book fills a significant gap in the study of the establishment of communist rule in Poland in the key period of 1944-1950.

This book provides a provocative analysis of relations between Europe and America during the tempestuous years 1998-2004.

This textbook provides an overview of qualitive and quantitative methods used in different social sciences to investigate defence issues.

This book examines the involvement of the European Union (EU) and China in Central Asia and critically assesses the implications this has for the region as a whole.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the development and operations of the navies of South-East Asia since the end of World War II.

More than most post-1970 conflicts involving US forces, the conflict in Iraq has been fought out against a background of frequently invoked memories from the era of the Vietnam War.

This edited volume examines the complexities of the Cold War in Southern Africa and uses a range of archives to develop a more detailed understanding of the impact of the Cold War environment upon the processes of political change.