Theory of warfare and military science

This book is the first history of UK economic intelligence and offers a new perspective on the evolution of Britain's national intelligence machinery and how it worked during the Cold War.

This edited book examines the management of diversity and inclusion in the military.

This book investigates several aspects of military power and security in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions.

The Soviet Union and Terrorism (1984) examines the extent of Soviet involvement in international terrorism, and the aims and objectives of Soviet foreign policy.

Soviet Communism (1989) contains the full text of the 1986 new and significantly revised foundational documents of Soviet Communism, the Programme and Party Rules - changes agreed following Mikhail Gorbachev's call for the radical and democratic reform of the Party and of the Soviet political system as a whole.

This book explores mutual common ground between Russia and NATO and the potential to move beyond cultural differences, particularly in political culture.

This book examines the recent shift in US space policy and the forces that continually draw the US back into a space-technology security dilemma.

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

Since the cold war ended, it has become an international field of study, with new material from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe.

This book considers the interactions between Africa, Asia and Europe, analysing the short and long term strategies various states have adopted to external relations.

Forces shaping human history are complex, but the course of history is undeniably changed on many occasions by conscious acts.

This book, first published in 1990, examines the origins and evolution of the security police, considering the continuities as well as changes in its function as guardian of the regime's security.

This edited collection is a timely and in-depth analysis of the EU's efforts to bring coherency and strategy to its security policy actions.

Violence at Sea is an overview of maritime piracy, examining threats that piracy poses to global security and commerce, as well as measures and policies to mitigate the threat.

First published in 1988, Arms Transfers and Dependence was written to provide a view of arms transfers in the context of the global distribution of power.

This book examines the evolution of China's maritime security strategy, and questions what has made China shift from a constrained to a more assertive strategy.

First published in 1988, this historical and quantitative analysis of war defines systemic world wars as conflicts of wide scope and intensity, which leave profound historical legacies in their wake.

This book demonstrates how Clausewitzian thought influenced American strategic thinking between the Vietnam War and the current conflict in Iraq.

From the time of its original publication in France, this cultural history (first published in English in 1966) by an international authority has stood apart from other histories of South East Asia.

This volume documents the UK Government's response to the unfolding social and political changes in Eastern Europe during 1989.

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

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.

This book explains why China chooses to coerce Asia-Pacific regional states, despite the risk of such actions creating a backlash and complicating its strategic calculus.

This book examines the extent to which Russia's strategic behavior is the product of its imperial strategic culture and Putin's own operational code.

This book offers a unique and scholarly perspective on a little-studied subject: maritime crime and policing.

Explores historical origins, contemporary patterns, and emerging changes in civil-military relations in Southeast Asia.

This book gives students an informed insight into the British experience in the First World War.

Ken Booth's study, first published in 1979, investigates the way in which cultural distortions have affected the theory and execution of strategy.

Based on a distinguished 35-year career in the RAF as an Air Commodore, Andrew R.

The decision to mount an armed foreign intervention is one of the most consequential that a US president can take.

Drawing upon extensive original research, this book explores best practice in army lessons-learned processes.

Eine detaillierte Analyse der militärischen Macht Chinas stellt diese in den Kontext der wachsenden wirtschaftlichen Leistungskraft des Landes und der Funktion einer Stabilisierung der totalitären Herrschaft der Kommunistischen Partei.

Soviet Risk-Taking and Crisis Behavior, first published in 1982, examines the question: for what purposes and under what conditions were Soviet leaders prepared to take risks in international relations?

The Israel Defense Force (IDF) plays a key role in Israeli society, and has traditionally been perceived not only as the guardian of national survival, but also as a 'people's army' responsible for the custody of national values.

This book explores what political conditions must be established and what obstacles overcome for the fi ve offi cial Nuclear Weapon States (NWS)- China, France, Russia, the UK and US- to eliminate their nuclear weapons.

This edited volume brings together both western and non-western approaches to counter-terrorism in the post-9/11 era.

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 assesses how progress in disarmament diplomacy in the last decade has improved human security.

The Soviet Union (1989) examines the state of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s.

In the 1980s the world spent an enormous amount on preparations for war.

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

This collection of essays examines the moral, psychological and philosophical dilemmas posed by war.

This book analyzes the strategic implications of the shift in focus for the US Armed Forces from regular to irregular war.

This book seeks to help shape the debate surrounding power and polarity in the twenty-first century, both by assessing the likelihood of US decline and by analysing what each of the so-called 'rising powers' can do.

This book looks at the history of the US Air Force through the lens of its (lack of) preparedness for major wars, which is shown to be a result of its organizational culture.

This volume explores the nature of civil war in the modern world and in historical perspective.

Only two years after Sputnik, weapons were created for attacking spacecraft.

The Soviet Far East (1990) examines the largest economic region in the Soviet Union, the Far East.

The Soviet Union Looks Ahead (1930) is the official statement of the five-year economic plan put forward by the Soviet Union, a plan involving the radical reconstruction of the entire production system of Russia.

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