Warfare and defence

Motor Gun Boats were the Spitfires of the Seas of the Royal Navy.

Why adopt a poststructural lens for the reading of the military strategy of national missile defence (NMD)?

While we know a great deal about the benefits of regional integration, there is a knowledge gap when it comes to areas with weak, dysfunctional, or nonexistent regional fabric in political and economic life.

Despite its reputation as the most impressive naval force in the world, the U.

This book explores types of disruptions in defence and security, ways to assess disruptions triggered by technological advancements or the lack of legal frameworks; the consequent delays or disruptions to making decisions, creative idea generation and finally the innovative pathways to counter such disruptions.

In light of growing discussion about the future of the Korean peninsula, the CSIS Korea Chair held a major conference featuring senior-level policy and scholarly discussions on the topic of unification, and this report provides a record of that conference.

If you had to evacuate from your building right now and were told you couldn't get back in for two weeks, would you know what to do to ensure your business continues to operate?

This volume discusses the relationship between economics, geopolitics and regional institutional growth and development in the Asia-Pacific region.

A compact, detailed account of the clashes between the Allies' M10 Tank Destroyer and the Germans' Sturmgesch tz (StuG) lll, the unsung workhorses of the northwest European battlefields of 1944 45.

Between the two world wars, thousands of European antifascists were pushed to act by the political circumstances of the time.

This book explores the relationship between the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the International Criminal Court (ICC), challenging the assumption that they are always mutually reinforcing or complementary, and examining instead the many tensions which arise between the immediate imperative of saving lives, and the more long-term prospect of punishing perpetrators and preventing future conflicts through deterrence.

Overshadowed for many years by the Nuremberg trials, the Tokyo Trial--one of the major events in the aftermath of World War II--has elicited renewed interest since the 50th anniversary of the war's end.

The Korean War is multiple wars.

Neighbourhood policing is one of the most significant and high profile innovations in UK policing in recent times.

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, is one of the great commanders of history.

According to security elites, revolutions in information, transport, and weapons technologies have shrunk the world, leaving the United States and its allies more vulnerable than ever to violent threats like terrorism or cyberwar.

Despite its portrayal as a bold departure, the Bush Doctrine was not the "e;new"e; or "e;revolutionary"e; policy instrument that many at the time portended.

This work blends strategic analysis of contemporary US foreign policy with long-term historical discussion, producing an important argument relevant to the debates surrounding both the merits of contemporary US foreign policy and the long-term trends at work in American political culture.

Sykes' The Society of Captives has stood as a classic of modern penology for nearly 60 years.

On 1 September 1939, when Germany attacked Poland, the Wehrmacht numbered 3,180,000 men.

Fully illustrated, this book casts light on the utility and role of the German and British cavalry in the early stages of World War I on the Western Front.

The Gunfight at the OK Corral on 26 October 1881 is one of the most enduring stories of the Old West.

Georgia in a Reconnecting Eurasia examines the full scope of Georgian national interests in the wider Eurasian region and analyzes the broad outlines of Georgian engagement over the coming years.

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times______________This is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fearThe Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known.

Tactics is the art and science of employing all available means to win battles and engagements.

Preceding and simultaneously with the conquest of England by Duke William, other ambitious and aggressive Norman noblemen (notably the Drengot, De Hauteville and Guiscard families) found it prudent to leave Normandy.

The National Research Council (NRC) was asked by the National Defense Intelligence College (NDIC) to convene a committee to review the curriculum and syllabi for their proposed master of science degree in science and technology intelligence.

A highly illustrated study of the last great campaign in the Pacific Theatre in World War II: the US Navy and Royal Navy's air, surface, and submarine attacks on the Japanese Home Islands.

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

This timely handbook offers an examination of man's history of war crimes and the parallel development of rules of war to prevent them in the future.

Only in recent years has the history of European colonial concentration camps in Africa in which thousands of prisoners died in appalling conditions become widely known beyond a handful of specialists.

Biological Threats in the 21st Century offers a fresh understanding of contemporary biological threats to national security.

This fully revised edition of Martin Shaw's classic, award-winning text proposes a way through the intellectual confusion surrounding genocide.

The Late Roman Empire was a period of significant change in the designs of standards and in the costumes of standard-bearers.

In October 2001 the most militarily advanced nation on earth came into conflict with one of the least developed nations as American forces poured into Afghanistan.

The construction, control and preservation of the Official Record is inherently contested.

Winner of the Asia Society's Bernard Schwartz 2012 Book AwardThe battles of yesterday were fought over land.

This book delves into the secret histories of the CIA, the FBI, and British and Italian intelligence to study how policymakers can control intelligence agencies and when these agencies will try to remove their own government.

Behavioural Economics and Terrorism can be used as a guide to help us think about thinking and, in doing so, to appreciate the deep quirkiness of human behaviour.

Having honed their piloting skills on the subsonic MiG-17 and transonic MiG-19, the Vietnamese Peoples' Air Force (VPAF) received their first examples of the legendary MiG-21 supersonic fighter in 1966.

This book discusses the moral and legal issues relating to military drones, focusing on how these machines should be judged according to the principles of just war theory.

Steinberg focuses on the narcissistic personality, identifying it as intensely self-involved and preoccupied with success and recognition as a substitute for parental love.

'Underhand and damned un-English' was the view of submarines in Edwardian Britain.

* Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2016*Modern warfare has a new form.

Prelude to the Easter Rising casts light upon the clandestine activities of Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany from 1914 to 1916.

This book presents a holistic view of the geopolitics of cyberspace that have arisen over the past decade, utilizing recent events to explain the international security dimension of cyber threat and vulnerability, and to document the challenges of controlling information resources and protecting computer systems.

This book advances an interdisciplinary understanding of moral injury by analyzing the stories of military veterans of combat and peace missions.

Non-lethal weapons (NLWs) are designed to minimize fatalities and other undesired collateral damage when used.