Warfare and defence

In 1910 the first aircraft was successfully launched from a small wooden platform on a stationary ship.

This book examines the complex interrelationships between water availability, governance and violent and non-violent conflicts, drawing on in-depth case studies of Lake Naivasha in Kenya and Lake Wamala in Uganda.

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

The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution pursues a rigorous examination of the various ways in which the protection of housing and property rights can contribute to durable solutions to displacement.

This book offers an intellectual history of an emerging technology of peace and explains how the liberal state has come to endorse illiberal subjects and practices.

This book examines potential synergies between the fields of Terrorism Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies.

The Marine Corps began World War II with less than 66,000 officers and men.

Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.

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

The sniper is a battlefield threat second to none.

First published in 1994.

Geopolitics is the study of how the projection of power (ideological, cultural, economic, or military) is effected and affected by the geographic and political landscape in which it operates.

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), also called the Lightning II, is a strike fighter airplane being procured in different versions for the Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy.

In the first comprehensive study of African American war literature, Jennifer James analyzes fiction, poetry, autobiography, and histories about the major wars waged before the desegregation of the U.

This book, first published in 1980, presents a comprehensive and detailed look at the problem of international militarisation.

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

Does state acquisition of nuclear weapons lead to stability and peace or instability and crises?

Some pundits claim cyber weaponry is the most important military innovation in decades, a transformative new technology that promises a paralyzing first-strike advantage difficult for opponents to deter.

Americans have long been asked to support the troops and care for veterans' psychological wounds.

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Based on recently declassified documents, this book provides the first examination of the Truman Administration's decision to employ covert operations in the Cold War.

During Desert Shield, the Air Force built a very complicated organizational architecture to control large numbers of air sorties.

In 1945, with her fleet destroyed and her armies beaten, the only thing that stood between Japan and an Allied invasion was the numerous coastal defence positions that surrounded the islands.

Im Mittelpunkt von Analysen und Konzepten, die in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten entstanden sind, steht die Idee der "Vertrauensbildenden Verteidigung".

This volume examines the role of international law in shaping and regulating transitional contexts, including the institutions, policies, and procedures that have been developed to steer constitutional regime changes in countries affected by catalytic events.

An illustrated account of the AH-64 Apache Units and their roles in these two crucial operations in Afghanistan.

This book analyses two key topics within international politics: the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the commercialization and privatization of security.

Das Buch schildert die Geschichte der Wiener Häfen, bevor der Ausbau Alberns zum Getreidehafen ab 1938 beleuchtet wird.

This title offers a detailed study of a successful but little-known German tank of World War II, the Panzer 38(t).

While President James Madison was a brilliant scholar, author of much of this country's early documents, organizer of the executive branch of government, and an astute politician, he was no commander-in-chief.

Known for his rousing speeches and military triumphs, General George S.

The attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January 2015 once again brought to the fore the place of Islam in Western secular democracies, and the questioning of Muslim citizenship.

Amply illustrated with pen & ink drawings, and including a glossary of key terms, this volume, originally published in 1955, traces the history of firearms and the pioneers who made that history, step by step, to the fringe of a complex modern science.

The Iran-Iraq War, which ended in the summer of 1988, a month short of its eighth anniversary, is undoubtedly the Third World's longest and bloodiest conflict in a half-century.

The Great War or the "e;War to end all wars"e; as promised by President Woodrow Wilson was neither great nor ultimately conclusive.

This book, first published in 1995, aims to enhance our understanding of the Anglo-American alliance by examining the origins of the alliance during the Second World War.

"e;The authors do a good job using the diaries, interviews, and books written by group members to convey a vivid-sometimes too vivid-picture of war at its most elemental.

This book brings together an impressive range of academic and intelligence professional perspectives to interrogate the social, ethical and security upheavals in a world increasingly driven by data.

This volume offers a wide-ranging examination and discussion of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) past, present and future as it enters its seventh decade.

Terrorism and radicalization have a long history, but in recent years their prominence has been a particularly conspicuous and influential feature of the global political landscape.

This volume considers the most recent demands for justice within the international system, examining how such aspirations often conflict with norms of state sovereignty and non-intervention.

Since the early 1990s, there has been a clear evolution in the military dimension of Japanese diplomacy.

This study examines two important questions regarding terrorism and political violence: which threats to human security constitute root causes for collective violence and which adequate responses for these root causes are available to the international community.

For five decades John M.

The Scud missile was developed as the centerpiece of Soviet plans to fight nuclear war in the heart of Europe.

This WWII memoir offers a vivid chronicle of combat in Egypt with the 107th Royal Horse Artillery and a daring escape from an Italian POW camp.