Warfare and defence

Examining the major academic and policy debates over China's rise and related policy issues, this book looks into the motivations and intentions of a rising China.

Does America's "e;pro-Israel lobby,"e; including the legendary American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), have as much power as is commonly believed?

The first major modern edition of the wartime correspondence of General William T.

Written by Indian experts and strategic thinkers, this book comprehensively analyses the many themes which have come to characterise the Chinese Dream in the "e;third era"e; and also examines the narrative of success as well as risks and challenges facing China in various fields.

Disenfranchising Democracy examines the exclusions that accompany democratization and provides a theory of the expansion and restriction of voting rights.

This volume presents carefully selected, and annotated, articles about major-leaguers serving at home and overseas in the U.

One of the most dramatic bombers of its day, the Convair B-58 came to epitomise the Cold War power of Strategic Air Command.

How empires have used diversity to shape the world order for more than two millenniaEmpires-vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition-have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia.

This book considers not the beginning or origins of terrorism but how groups that use terrorism end.

With the development in the 13th century of co-operative tactics using crossbowmen and heavy spearmen, the charge by Muslim horse-archers, and then by European armoured knights, could be defied.

This book, first published in 1980, is a close analysis of Britain's defence policy in the latter years of the Cold War.

El Salvador's civil war began in 1980 and ended twelve bloody years later.

The American fleet aircraft carrier Hornet is widely acknowledged for the contributions she made to the war effort.

An indispensable resource for those interested in the scourge of mass murder and genocide in the 20th and 21st centuries, this book analyzes modern and contemporary controversies and issues to help readers to understand genocide in all its complexity.

Responding to the profound challenges of our times, this book provides a comparative and cross-cultural exploration of the role of religion in war in a long historical perspective, from the second millennium BCE, and even earlier, up to early modernity.

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the United States Army became the principal agent of American foreign policy.

Millions of Soviet soldiers died in the USSR's struggle for survival against Nazi Germany but millions more returned to Stalin's state after victory.

The decision, in Spring 1948, to form two battalions of Foreign Legion paratroopers was prompted by the requirement for enlarged airborne forces in Indochina, and the healthy recruitment then employed by the Legion.

This book examines the geostrategic alliances in the Eastern Mediterranean and MENA regions.

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.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide explores the many and sometimes complicated ways in which religion, faith, doctrine, and practice intersect in societies where mass atrocity and genocide occur.

Despite calls for the decolonisation of knowledge, scholars who come from conflict-affected societies remained marginalised, excluded from the examination of the politics and impacts of liberal interventionism.

The present volume engages visuality in security from a variety of angles and explores what the subfield of Visual Security Studies might be.

More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like.

The focus of this book is to analyse from a number of perspectives the politics of change in Ireland north and south since 1969.

Civil society plays an increasingly powerful role in the global landscape, emerging as key actors in preventing and managing conflict, and building more peaceful and sustainable societies .

Naval intelligence is one of the most vital, and sometimes decisive, forms of intelligence.

By the end of 2009, more than 60 percent of the global chemical weapons stockpile declared by signatories to the Chemical Weapons Convention will have been destroyed, and of the 184 signatories, only three countries will possess chemical weapons-the United States, Russia, and Libya.

While the most conspicuous components of the US Army Air Forces in World War II were the air units, there were also hundreds of ground units and organisations.

The protection of the homeland is the top priority for U.

This book examines the normative debates around the American use of targeted killings.

This book examines the trans-border connections between militant and criminal networks and the relationship between these and the states in which they operate.

Nearly 100 German military edged weapons are presented in this sumptuously photographed volume featuring information about their owners.

A fascinating insight into US and Coalition Special Forces operating in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Mali.

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In the first half of the 20th century the possibility of flight opened up entirely new avenues of thought and exploration.

This book examines the prospects and challenges of a global phase-out of highly enriched uranium-and the risks of this material otherwise being used by terrorists to make atom bombs.

The story of the British Forces who reclaimed the Falklands territory from the Argentines.

Previously published as a special issue of Ethnopolitics, this volume analyzes various dimensions of the internationalized state-building process in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1995.

This book, first published in 1981, offers an analysis of the ways in which one strategic situation in Cold War politics impinged on another, and the interplay of historical forces and trends shaping national policies and the world pattern of power.

The main objectives of this book are to analyse the risks and dangers NATO faces in the current strategic environment and to discuss how the alliance can readjust to those challenges.

The idea of an Apache warrior still evokes a stereotyped response; that of an elusive, cunning, ferocious and cruel fighter.

The United States has struggled to define its approach to what has been called the "e;information battlefield"e; since the information era began.

In the early 1900s, the decaying Ottoman Turkish Empire had lost some of its Balkan territories, but still nominally ruled all of North Africa between British Egypt in the east and French Algeria in the west.

The popular conception of Hitler in the final years of World War II is that of a deranged Fuhrer stubbornly demanding the defense of every foot of ground on all fronts and ordering hopeless attacks with nonexistent divisions.

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

Fought under the cover of elaborate deceptions and ruthless lies, the deadly intelligence operations of World War II produced victories and defeats that were often as important as any reached on the battlefield.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of sexual assault in the military from historical and contemporary perspectives, offering suggestions that could change the existing culture and approaches that will reduce or eliminate sexual assault in the armed forces.

The first comprehensive history of the Fall Campaign that determined control of Central Europe following Napoleon''s catastrophic defeat in Russia.