Warfare and defence

South Africa came late to television; when it finally arrived in the late 1970s the rest of the world had already begun to boycott the country because of apartheid.

The Great War tore the fabric of Europe apart, killing over 35 million men and challenging the notion of heroism in war, Air and Sea Power in World War I focuses on the experience of World War I from the perspective of British pilots and sailors themselves, to demonstrate that the army-centric view of war studies has been too limited.

The four years between the military defeat of France by Nazi Germany and D-Day were vital, dramatic and eventful years in Anglo-French relations.

A mixture of travelogue, history and war journalism, Allah's Mountains tells the story of the conflict between a nation of mountain tribes and the might of the Russian army.

On 1 January 1942, Churchill and Roosevelt issued a 'Declaration by United Nations' with 24 other states, forging a military alliance based on human rights principles that included China, India and the Soviet Union.

The Holocaust - the murder of approximately six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators in World War Two - is the gravest crime in recorded history, committed on a human and geographical scale which is almost unimaginable.

As a British Intelligence Officer during World War II, Hugh Trevor-Roper was expressly forbidden from keeping a diary due to the sensitive and confidential nature of his work.

The Cold War was a period of intense political rivalry, in which diplomacy and international relations in Asia and the Middle East acquired huge global significance.

International Arms Trade has always been a powerful and multi-functional constituent of world politics and international diplomacy.

How to respond effectively to humanitarian crises is one of the most pressing and seemingly intractable problems facing the United Nations.

In the years following the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, Serbian social, cultural and political responses to the wars of the 1990s have fallen under intense scrutiny.

The Iranian nuclear crisis has dominated world politics since the beginning of the century, with the country now facing increasing diplomatic isolation, talk of military strikes against its nuclear facilities and a disastrous Middle East war.

Why does an officer in an elite regiment - the Grenadier Guards - exchange a prestigious and privileged career in the British Army for service among desert tribes in harsh and unforgiving territory, and in the seemingly insoluble conflict of the turbulent Arab world?

The four years between the military defeat of France by Nazi Germany and D-Day were vital, dramatic and eventful years in Anglo-French relations.

Today's intelligence community faces challenges that would have been inconceivable only a dozen years ago.

The Great War tore the fabric of Europe apart, killing over 35 million men and challenging the notion of heroism in war, Air and Sea Power in World War I focuses on the experience of World War I from the perspective of British pilots and sailors themselves, to demonstrate that the army-centric view of war studies has been too limited.

On Hallowed Ground opens with the long-delayed funeral of four servicemen, brought home for final honors at Arlington National Cemetery almost forty years after they disappeared in Vietnam.

A history of the gas mask in Germany from first use in combat in 1915 to the eve of the Second World War.

Why do the combat capabilities of individual soldiers vary so much?

This book examines the Indian nuclear policy, doctrine, strategy and posture, clarifying the elastic concept of credible minimum deterrence at the center of the country's approach to nuclear security.

This book reintroduces readers to the lives and writings of the greatest military minds of the modern era, writers whose ideas and teachings continue to shape the conduct of war in the 21st century.

The Rise of the Wehrmacht is the first comprehensive work to deal with the German war effort in World War II from this point of view.

Every American should read this book in order to gain a clear insight about military combat and war.

Memoiren, Romane, Filme und Propagandaschriften haben den Ruf der Fremdenlegion als Sammelbecken von Kriminellen und Aussteigern, als sadistisch-militaristische Hölle oder als exotische Lebenswelt romantischer Helden verbreitet.

This book fills an important gap in the literature on the history of the modern Royal Navy.

Between 1544 and 1604, Tudor England was involved in a series of wars which strained government and society to their limits.

News media, movies, blogs and video games issue constant invitations to picture war, experience the thrill of combat, and revisit battles past.

In the longer perspective, even the most momentous events can appear to lose coherence and significance.

How and why did Britain become involved in the First World War?

When the Cold War ended in 1989, American hopes for a new world order were quickly disappointed.

A RUSA Outstanding Reference Source 2025From genocidal campaigns to careful neutrality to valiant lifesaving efforts, every country's experience of the Holocaust was different during and immediately following World War II.

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"e;Conventional political theory holds that the sovereign state is the legitimate source of order and provider of public services in any society, whether democratic or not.

This compelling history brings to life the watershed year of 1948, when the United States reversed its long-standing position of political and military isolation from Europe and agreed to an "e;entangling alliance"e; with ten European nations.

Words of Intelligence: An Intelligence Professionals Lexicon for Domestic and Foreign Threats is intended for the intelligence and national security men and women at the federal, state, and local levels.

Overturns the generally held view that the press gang was the main means of recruiting seamen by the British navy in the late eighteenth century.

Shows how the system of supply was perfected during the later part of the Napoleonic Wars, enabling fleets to stay at sea on a permanent basis.

This study recounts the reasons why the order for the Herero genocide was very likely issued by the Kaiser himself, and why proof of this has not emerged before now.

In 2007 two former U.

After eleven weeks of bombing in the spring of 1999, the United States and NATO ultimately won the war in Kosovo.

Policymakers will need all the tools at their disposal to craft an effective response to international terrorism and to protect and promote other U.

Syria has long presented a difficult problem for American policymakers.

Energy security has become a top priority issue for the United States and countries around the globe, but what does the term "e;"e;energy security"e;"e; really mean?

"e;"e;Our current stalemate over detention serves nobody not the military or any other component of the U.

Turkey: A necessary ally in a troubled regionWith the new administration in office, it is not clear whether the U.

India and Pakistan, nuclear neighbors and rivals, fought the last of three major wars in 1971.

Bruce Riedel provides new perspective and insights into Kennedy's forgotten crisis in the most dangerous days of the cold war.

These candid conversations capture the difficulties of reporting during crisis and war, particularly the tension between government and the press.

A Brookings Institution Press and EU Institute for Security Studies publicationThe greater Middle East region is beset by a crescent of crises, stretching from Pakistan through Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

A fascinating comparative history of the treatment of fallen airmen in Second World War Europe.