Warfare and defence

This book brings together the best and most iconic fighters of World War II, pitted against one another in desperate aerial combat.

This book presents an original understanding of Arendt in the context of comparative political theory.

Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett's Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military action of the Civil War.

This edited volume looks at regional integration processes in Asia.

This book studies relevant actors and practices of conflict intervention by African regional organizations and their intimate connection to space-making, addressing a major gap regarding what actually happens within and around these organizations.

"e;Deserve[s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.

Although not as glamorous as vehicles such as the Panther and Tiger, the Panzer IV formed an extremely important part of the German armoured forces during World War II.

This book chronicles the genesis of the negotiations that led to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which challenged the established nuclear order.

Originally published in the 1930's, this book is a mocking expose of European dictators, comparing them to American gangsters like Al Capone.

This analysis of battles in the American Civil War, and in other contemporary wars, demonstrates the importance of superior numbers.

This study of Russian mobilization in the Great War explores how the war shaped national identity and conceptions of citizenship.

This book is based on a conference addressing the relationship between the environment and security in the post-Cold War world.

This book identifies contemporary military coalition defections, builds a theoretical framework for understanding why coalition defection occurs and assesses its utility for both the scholarly and policy practitioner communities.

The Napier family are famous for their military exploits in the Peninsular War.

This book investigates the UK's nuclear weapon policy, focusing in particular on how consecutive governments have managed to maintain the Trident weapon system.

This volume seeks to examine the evolving contours of Asian multilateralism through emerging China and how it is likely to impact on the growth trajectories of Asian countries.

This book offers a detailed examination of the counter-insurgency operations undertaken by the Nigerian military against Boko Haram between 2011 and 2017.

Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era.

Archival photos detailing the US Army division's efforts during WWII, featuring accounts of the T-26 Pershing tank and its first use in combat.

This book explores the evolutionary context of terrorism and political violence.

In Euromissiles, Susan Colbourn tells the story of the height of nuclear crisis and the remarkable waning of the fear that gripped the globe.

Discusses the experience of nearly 100,000 French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II.

A heavy javelin, normally used as a shock weapon immediately before contact, the pilum was designed with a particular speciality: it could penetrate a shield and carry on into the individual behind it.

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Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan provides a unique insight into the lived realities of the international intervention in Afghanistan and highlights the diversity, relationships, and interdependence of various groups including both external actors and Afghan communities.

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Leadership is not a rank, it is a responsibility.

From acclaimed aviation historian Michael Napier, this is a highly illustrated survey of the airpower deployed by NATO and Warsaw Pact countries throughout the Cold War.

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1890) is a work of naval history and strategy by Alfred Thayer Mahan.

Of all the planes that flew in WW2, the 'Wooden Wonder' the two-engined Mosquito, or Mossie as it was affectionately called, was truly the most versatile and feared by the Germans.

Originally published in 1993, this volume was unique in its scope and approach: Unlike most literature on nuclear weapons proliferation at the time, the essays in this volume offer theoretical discussions and suggest testable hypotheses about the causes and effects of nuclear weapons proliferation.

Limited force is different than war: different in scope, strategic purpose, and ethical permissions and restraints.

Once the United States withdraws most or all of its forces from Afghanistan, what issues are likely to continue to be of concern to U.

In the early 1930s, approximately 6,500 Finns from Canada and the United States moved to Soviet Karelia, on the border of Finland, to build a Finnish workers' society.

This vital book examines why states seek to gain Weapons of Mass Destruction, a crucial issue in developing strategies against proliferation.

The fateful attack on Pearl Harbor forced the Western world to revise its opinion of Japan's airmen.

Analyses the expansion of the nuclear arms control regime, evaluating Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty negotiations and preparations for on-site inspections.

A gripping true account of warfare in the skies over Korea, when American bombers and North Korean jet fighters would change the course of air combat.

When the Korean War broke out in 1950, the Marine Corps was ordered to deploy an air-ground brigade in less than ten days, even though no such brigade existed at the time.

Contesting the Origins of the First World War challenges the Anglophone emphasis on Germany as bearing the primary responsibility in causing the conflict and instead builds upon new perspectives to reconsider the roles of the other Great Powers.

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

The Peninsular War (1807-1814) was a military conflict for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic War, where the French were opposed by British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces.

The American Military: A Narrative History presents a comprehensive introduction to more than four centuries of American military history.

Between 1939 and 1945, the British public was spellbound by the martial endeavours and dashing style of the young men of the RAF, especially those with silvery fabric wings sewn above the breast pocket of their glamorous slate-blue uniform.

National security is one of the most contentious topics in public policy and politics and one of the most important for the twenty-first century.

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This book explores how actors practise sovereignty as a force in a multiscalar context.