Warfare and defence

Valor features the thrilling stories that are the fruit of Mark Lee Greenblatt's interviews with brave American servicemen from twenty-first-century wars.

This book seeks to decolonize practices of arms control and disarmament.

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This comprehensively updated second edition provides an introduction to the political, normative, technological and strategic aspects of nuclear weaponry.

This book describes the four Nuclear Security Summits held over 2010-2016 at the initiative of U.

This book examines and explains the dialectic of war and peace between the outbreak of WWI and the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014.

This edited collection develops a gendered lens for genocide prevention by uncovering socially constructed gender roles which are crucial for the onset, form and prevention of genocide and mass atrocities.

This book provides a critical examination of NATO's evolving strategic and operational roles in the Western Balkans since the disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1991, with a particular focus on Bosnia, Kosovo and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, in both the conflict and post-conflict phases.

The book offers a processual and discursive perspective on how individuals exit the Muslim Brotherhood.

Most studies of Asia-Pacific security are marked by pessimism and continuing belief in the virtues of a balance of power.

This book is about Japan-China power politics in the military, economic and propaganda domains.

This book uses empirical research to introduce the relationship between nationalism, militarism and masculinity.

This book provides the first detailed comparative analysis of the unusual partnership between the main European neutral states and NATO.

This book chronicles a professor's experience with a group of US undergraduate students at Holocaust memorials, museums, and sites of remembrance as part of a yearly Holocaust study abroad program to Germany and Poland.

In the spring of 1864, as the armies of Grant and Lee waged a highly scrutinized and celebrated battle for the state of Virginia, a no- less important, but historically obscured engagement was being conducted in the pine barrens of northern Louisiana.

The 1640s were one of the most exciting and bloody decades in British and Irish history.

This book explores the complex ways in which people lived and worked within the confines of Benito Mussolini's regime in Italy, variously embracing, appropriating, accommodating and avoiding the regime's incursions into everyday life.

This edited collection brings together cutting-edge research on British masculinities and male culture, considering the myriad ways British men experienced, understood and remembered their exploits during the Second World War, as active combatants, prisoners and as civilian workers.

The first full-length study of World War II from the Latin American perspective, this unique volume offers an in-depth analysis of the region during wartime.

A historical exploration of how Japan could have implemented military tactics that would have altered how World War II ended.

Based on extensive Japanese-language materials, this book is the first to examine the development of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force.

This second part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America's major wars from the Spanish-American War to the Vietnam War.

This book compares female administrators who specifically chose to serve the Nazi cause in voluntary roles with those who took on such work as a progression of established careers.

Since Somalia, the international community has found itself changing its view of humanitarian intervention.

Globalization and Armed Conflict addresses one of the most important and controversial issues of our time: Does global economic integration foster or suppress violent disputes within and between states?

Heart-pounding accounts of the courageous men, elite methods, and deadly moments that make up daring special ops missions.

Filip Muller came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942 and began working in the gassing installations and crematoria in May.

The first biography of the Marine general who was decorated for bravery in both WWII and Korea, and went on to serve as a commanding general in Vietnam.

During World War II, Heinz Drossel saved Soviet prisoners of war and several Jews, including Marianne Hirschfeld.

A fully illustrated collection of the most thrilling shipwrecks of all time!

This timely study examines the Defense Department's FY 2017 budget proposal for the size and shape of military forces; what that proposal means for cost, strategy, and risk; and challenges the proposal faces in implementation.

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

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.

World War II from a Leader Who Saw the War from Both the White House and the Bridge of a BattleshipVice Admiral John L.

Russia is one of the world's largest hydrocarbon resource holders, producers, and exporters, but it is undergoing an uncertain economic and energy transition.

The Threat From Within examines what drives Al Qaeda-inspired radicalization to violence, how to detect it, and how to confront it.

This revised and expanded second edition of The Code of the Warriora book George R.

An exploration of military responses to revolutions and how to predict such reactions in the futureWe know that a revolution's success largely depends on the army's response to it.

Secrets and Leaks examines the complex relationships among executive power, national security, and secrecy.

Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender.

A first look at gunpowder's revolutionary impact on China's role in global historyThe Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West.

An unprecedented look at social breakdown and Sunni-led jihad in northern LebanonNorthern Lebanon is a land in turmoil.

Why are we still at ';war' with terror 16 years after 9/11?

The Ecology of Violent Extremism brings together leading theorists and practitioners to describe an ecological or systems approach to violent extremism.

This book comprehensively analyzes the global illusion of citizen protection so common today.

How security procedures could be positive, safe, and effectiveThe inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and all the rest are the way we encounter the vast apparatus of U.

Today, with combat operations in Afghanistan winding down, U.

Today, with combat operations in Afghanistan winding down, U.

Today, with combat operations in Afghanistan winding down, U.

Today, with combat operations in Afghanistan winding down, U.