Warfare and defence

Security and defence is the area in which the EU has advanced most in recent years.

The Vietnamese knew the Long-Range Patrol Scouts as the men with green faces, a reference to the camouflage paint that they used.

In the past, foreign policy and security concerns have trumped any efforts to reform the North Korean economy.

Roger examines how developments in new media technologies, such as the internet, blogs, camera/video phones, have fundamentally altered the way in which governments, militaries, terrorists, NGOs, and citizens engage with images.

For most of World War II, British tank development remained faithful to the design philosophy inaugurated during World War I.

This book explores the history and legacy of monuments to the fallen from the Francoist side in the Spanish Civil War.

Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is in fact an immense and recent achievementbut also an enormous strategic challenge if it is to be maintained in the future.

This book delivers an interpretive framework for making sense of today's geopolitical landscape and casts new light on the impact ideology and technology have had on American foreign policy and contemporary security practices.

During the 19th century, US forces confronted the Seminole people in a series of bitter wars over the fate of Florida.

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.

In Stand on Guard, Stephanie Carvin sets out to explain the range of activities considered national security threats by Canadian security services today.

War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict provides insights for those involved in the design of military strategy, and the forces that must execute that strategy.

In 1543 three Portuguese merchants entered a turbulent Japan, bringing with them the first firearms the Japanese had ever seen: simple matchlock muskets called arquebuses.

What does a nation owe its military veterans?

During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military.

This book investigates the challenges related to civil-military cooperation (CIMIC) and offers a new perspective by examining the social role of NATO CIMIC soldiers.

This volume brings together analyses of key domestic, foreign and security policy issues during the Putin and Medvedev administrations.

Singh analyses the influence of Xi's 'Chinese Dream' on China's foreign relations and security postures.

The Symposium on Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrow's Warfighter is a forum for consumers and producers of scientific and technical intelligence to exchange perspectives on the potential sources of emerging or disruptive technologies and behaviors, with the goal of improving the Department of Defense's technological warning capability.

Bigger than The Great Escape.

Despite preemptive preparations, disasters can and do occur.

Naval forces from fifteen colonial territories fought for the British Empire during the Second World War, providing an important new lens for understanding imperial power and colonial relations on the eve of decolonisation.

In August 1914 the mobilization of Imperial Germany's 800,000-strong army ushered in the first great war of the modern age - a war which still stands as the greatest slaughter of soldiers in history.

Police citizen encounters do not occur in a vacuum.

An in-depth analysis of why COVID-19 warnings failed and how to avert the next disasterEpidemiologists and national security agencies warned for years about the potential for a deadly pandemic, but in the end global surveillance and warning systems were not enough to avert the COVID-19 disaster.

This history of American armored warfare through the twentieth century “boasts some of the best available analysis of mobile war as practiced by the US" (Publishers Weekly).

A vivid, brutal and enthralling account of the Burma Campaign one of the most punishing and hard-fought military adventures of World War Two.

This book approaches the World Wars and the decades between them as a single unit in modern history.

The third edition of a bestseller, Hazardous Materials Chemistry for Emergency Responders continues to provide the fundamentals of "e;street chemistry"e; required by emergency response personnel.

Written by a hazardous materials consultant with over 40 years of experience in emergency services, the five-volume Hazmatology: The Science of Hazardous Materials suggests a new approach dealing with the most common aspects of hazardous materials, containers, and the affected environment.

What To Do When You Get Hacked: A Practitioner's Guide to Incident Response in the 21st Century teaches you everything that you need to know about preparing your company for a potential data breach.

Jonathan Wright explores the events, discusses rival interpretations and places the policies of Hitler in the context of Germany as a whole.

The full history of how the United States targeted and destroyed the Japanese capital from the air, in a ten-month long campaign by the US Army Air Force and the US Navy.

A town at the center of the United States becomes the site of an ongoing struggle for freedom and equality.

Following Elite 115 which described the composition of Napoleon's military and civil 'households', and Marshal Berthier's army general headquarters this title offers an intimate glimpse of the Emperor's entourage in the field.

The Battle for Britain is a provocative reinterpretation of both British air and naval power from 1909 to 1940.

This is the compelling story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Benito Mussolini.

More than a decade into the "e;war on terrorism,"e; much of the political debate in the United States is still fixated on the legacy of 9/11.

The amount of publicly and often freely available information is staggering.

'Like Cr cy itself, this book is a triumph and the tale it tells gives an old story new life.

India in a Reconnecting Eurasia examines the full scope of Indian national interests in the South Caucasus and Central Asia and analyzes the broad outlines of Indian engagement over the coming years.

This book investigates the aesthetic, theoretical, and historical challenges that confront German writers of war from 1800 to the present.

In Constituent Power, Violence, and the State, Dimitri Vouros examines the question of political violence by placing the thought of Georges Sorel, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt in conversation with contemporary theories of sovereignty and constituent power.

Thomas Percy Gleave began his RAF career in 1930, three years later becoming a member of the RAF aerobatic team.

By 1960, following Korea, tanks and their crews had proved themselves to be a fundamental part of the Marine Corps' combined arms team.

Britain now faces fundamental choices in organising its armed forces and military strategy - more so than at any time since the 1930s.

Exploiting the abundant primary sources available, this book examines the diverse ways in which war shaped the Hellenistic world.