Theory of warfare and military science

This fascinating new collection of essays on Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) explores the 'non-military' aspects of British special operations in the Second World War.

Russian Information Warfare: Assault on Democracies in the Cyber Wild West examines how Moscow tries to trample the very principles on which democracies are founded and what we can do to stop it.

Fighting the Fleet recognizes that fleets conduct four distinct but interlocking tasks at the operational level of war--striking, screening, scouting, and basing--and that successful operational art is achieved when they are brought to bear in a cohesive, competitive scheme.

This book examines traditional balance of power theory from a political-economic perspective, using historical examples, to draw out distinctions between the liberal and realist approach and how this affects grand strategy.

This book critically analyses the concept of the intelligence cycle, highlighting the nature and extent of its limitations and proposing alternative ways of conceptualising the intelligence process.

This work is an exploration of how U.

This volume explores and develops new social-scientific tools for the analysis and understanding of contemporary military missions in theatre.

This book analyses the layered and complex web of terror financing in Kashmir.

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

This book seeks to address the roots of the hostility that has characterized the United States' relationship with Cuba and has persisted for decades, long after the Cold War.

The edited volume examines contemporary intelligence and tradecraft in Africa.

This book, first published in 1997, examines the forced merger between national security interests and environmental policy makers arising from the Chemical Weapons Convention and its requirement to safely dismantle the world's chemical weapons stockpiles.

This book examines the role of new media and digital technologies in public diplomacy and political communication.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of UK defence exports, as an example of the international trade in defence capabilities.

First published in 1990, Richard Clutterbuck's fascinating analysis of European security confronts the problems of internal European community frontiers and technological aids in combating terrorism and international crime.

Soviet Local Politics and Government (1983) examines the local government system of the Soviet Union, an important part of the great bureaucracy that ran the country.

This volume examines how the adoption of AI technologies is likely to impact strategic and operational planning, and the possible future tactical scenarios for conventional, unconventional, cyber, space and nuclear force structures.

In Inherit the Holy Mountain, historian Mark Stoll introduces us to the religious roots of the American environmental movement.

This book provides a rigorous critical analysis of how the US military operates in Iraq, exploring the spatial practices of violence.

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.

In the Post-Cold War era, US nuclear foreign policies towards India witnessed a major turnaround as a demand for 'cap, reduce, eliminate' under the Clinton administration was replaced by the implementation of the historic 'civil nuclear deal' in 2008 by Bush, a policy which continued under Obama's administration.

This volume is comprised of a collection of diplomatic documents covering British reactions to, and policy towards, the collapse of the German Democratic Republic and the unification of Germany in 1989-90.

Shortlisted for The Society for Army Historical Research's 2024 Templer Medal and Chapple Prize for best first book.

This book looks at the emerging power dynamics in the Indo-Pacific region and locates India and its interests within the overarching geostrategic framework.

This book identifies some of the main lessons for civil-military interactions that can be derived from the experiences of Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan.

In mid-1980 a second conference for the review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) would take place in Geneva.

This compelling, interdisciplinary compilation of essays documents the extensive, intersubjective relationships between gender, war, and militarism in 21st-century global politics.

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

The challenges that space poses for political theory are profound.

This book investigates the selective nature of UN sanctions regimes with a specific focus on the post-Cold War era.

This concise and accessible new text offers original and insightful analysis of the policy paradigm informing international statebuilding interventions.

This book is organized to examine the major subjects taught in American politics through the lens of twenty-five hot button issues affecting American politics and policy today.

This book investigates representations of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Hollywood films, and the synergies between Hollywood product, U.

In the light of new archival material the editors take a fresh look at Russian aviation in the twentieth century.

This book describes the evolution of French defence policy since the end of the Cold War.

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.

This book consists of extracts from key documents, along with commentary and further reading, on the 'Great Patriotic War' of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, 1941-45.

Remembering the Cold War examines how, more than two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cold War legacies continue to play crucial roles in defining national identities and shaping international relations around the globe.

Isaiah Berlin's liberalism seems both dated and essential in an era of ideological extremes.

The nuclear non-proliferation treaty had recently undergone its third formal review by its signatories, who had assessed its effectiveness and considered how it might better be implemented.

The Soviet Union and National Liberation Movements in the Third World (1988) is a systematic comparison of Soviet theory about, and actual behaviour toward, movements for national liberation in the Third World.

This book, first published in 1989, explores the ideas, proposals and counterproposals surrounding the thorny issue of Cold War conventional force disarmament in Europe.

This book examines India's Northeast borderland - strategically positioned at the confluence of South Asia, East and Southeast Asia - from the perspective of international relations.

This book is focused on militarization as the nucleus of EU space policy and the interrelatedness of European security, industrial competitiveness, and military capabilities in the shaping of this policy.

Air power for warfighting is a story that's been told many times.

This book, first published in 1999, analyses the history and major economic features of the Vietnamese reform process.

Exploring case studies from the first Gulf War to the Syria crisis, this book discusses different approaches to the use of international law and the role it plays in international power politics.

The global business environment is becoming more complex and business activities are increasing in speed.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of UK-US intelligence cooperation in the post-9/11 world.

Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy?