Warfare and defence

This book offers an original and insightful analysis of the human rights inadequacies that arise in the practice of UN territorial administration by analysing and assessing the practice of UNMIK.

This book is a practical and thoughtful guide for the forensic interview of children, presenting a synthesis of the empirical and theoretical knowledge necessary to understand the account of child victims of abuse or witnesses of crime.

Wars are not fought by politicians and generals--they are fought by soldiers.

Following Argentina's military operation to take possession of the Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government launched a major naval operation to return them to British rule.

A fascinating analysis of the World War II battle between Great Britain and France to ensure French ships were kept out of German hands during World War II.

Cultivated by the Allied press during the war and fostered by movies and novels ever since, the image of a U-boat skipper held by most Americans is the personification of evil: the wolf who stalks innocents.

Hitlers regime was notorious for its many experiments and its various secret ploys, weapons, and technological developments.

Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight.

Economic development, population growth and poor resource management have combined to alter the planet's natural environment in dramatic and alarming ways.

Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society (1987) studies Guyanese society after slavery and specifically examines the area of social classes and ethnic groups.

In 1946, approximately 40,000 U.

The War on Terror has remained an enduring feature of American foreign policy for over two decades.

A true account of a unique event in naval history from “a superb storyteller” (Northern Mariner).

A dramatic blow-by-blow account of the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English fleet - a tale of daring and disaster on the high seas by one of our best narrative historians.

Just War theory - as it was developed by the Catholic theologians of medieval Europe and the jurists of the Renaissance - is a framework for the moral and legal evaluation of armed conflicts.

The original forced conversion of pagan Livonia, what is now the Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia, was carried out by a military order known as the Brethren of the Sword.

The papers in this book present, for the first time, the world of warfare, both defensive and offensive, from the Classical periods to end of the Middle Ages in one collection.

A riveting combination of war memoir and analysis providing “valuable insights” into the role of military intelligence in Vietnam (International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence).

As was the case in World War II, one of the greatest threats to Britain during World War I was the German U-boat menace.

Winner of the Seaborg Award A History Book Club SelectionOn October 8, 1862, Union and Confederate forces clashed near Perryville, Kentucky, in what would be the largest battle ever fought on Kentucky soil.

Peacekeeping is a security concept that is very representative of the current interventionism, multilateralism, human rights, and humanitarian ideas.

During the Cold War, the G3 was one of the world's pre-eminent battle rifles.

At the start of the twentieth century the United States led the world in advances in aviation, with the first successful engine-powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903.

The author argues that the Chinese believe in the strategy of "e;people's war under modern conditions"e;, and are confident that middle-range technology and unconventional warfare and the combination of the "e;human"e; and "e;weapon"e; factors represent a successful application of the strategy.

This volume explores intergenerational trauma among refugee communities displaced throughout the world.

Over the past eight decades, developments in vertical lift aircraft--both helicopters and vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) planes--have given the American military unparalleled capabilities on the modern battlefield.

Composing Peace: Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping is about mission composition in peacekeeping operations and asks how diversity of mission composition influences the ability of a peace mission to keep the peace.

This book investigates the relationship between international security governance, democratic civil-military relations and the relevance of strategy, as well as of absolute and relative gains, in norms formation in hybrid orders.

This book offers a renewed defense of traditional just war theory and considers its application to certain contemporary cases, particularly in the Middle East.

During the long and costly conflict known as the Great Northern War [1700-1721], Peter the Great and his newly formed Russian army, which was modelled on western European lines, defeated their Swedish counterparts, who were generally regarded as being the finest troops in Europe.

In 1795 the Russian army was as vast as the territory from which it was drawn.

Drawing on primary sources from both sides of the Atlantic, Britain and the Bomb explores how economic, political, and strategic considerations have shaped British nuclear diplomacy.

The effects of weapons of mass destruction cannot be contained, either spatially or temporally, are unpredictable, discriminate poorly between combatants and civilians, and are highly disruptive of ecosystems.

This book focuses on the mass participation of women in the communist-led Yugoslav Partisan resistance during World War II.

The war years 1939 - 1945 were the most perilous in the long history of the British Merchant Navy.

This book sheds light on the practice, challenges, and prospects of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) amidst wide contestation, backlash, operational challenges, and expectation gaps associated with the theory and practice of the RtoP.

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This volume offers an inter-disciplinary and critical analysis of the role of culture in diplomatic practice.

In 1915 a machine christened Little Willie changed the way that wars were fought.

The recent COVID-19 global pandemic exemplifies the need for efficient, reliable, and real-time tools and technology for forecasting and predicting healthcare disasters as well as for helping to restrict the subsequent spread and fatality of deadly diseases.

This book describes issues in modeling unconventional conflict and suggests a new way to do the modeling.

Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, this book explores the key challenges associated with the proliferation of cyber capabilities.

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A dramatic account of Ulysses S Grant's epic victory on the Mississippi, featuring maps and illustrations throughout.

This unusual work offers a personal documentary and highly individual witness to the terrible events in Flanders in 1917.

This is a story written by a young man who trained as a pilot, and then flew with the Royal Flying Corps in France during the First World War, eventually to become an ace.

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 has identified four priority areas for Disaster Risk Reduction: understanding disaster risk; strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk; investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience and enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response; and to "e;Build Back Better"e; in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction.