Defence Strategy, Planning & Research

These essays on strategy, war, and statecraft have been written during the current reassessment of United States' national strategy. But they also ...

The Distributed Functions of Emergency Management and Homeland Security outlines the roles and responsibilities of various individuals and agencies...

Japan has been expanding its military roles in the post-Cold War period. This book analyses the shift in Japan’s security policy by examining the c...

First Published in 2015. The chapters in this text examine the foreign policies of Russia and other selected states of the former Soviet Union. Eac...

Whatever happened to the post–Cold War “peace dividend”? Why does military spending continue to escape federal budget reductions? Why, despite the ...

In Russia and Armed Persuasion, Stephen J. Cimbala argues that Russia's war planners and political leaders must make painful adjustments in their t...

This work investigates the connection between intelligence history, domestic policy, military history and foreign relations in a time of increasing...

From the 1930s to the 1950s a large number of left-wing men and women in the USA, Britain, Europe, Australia and Canada were recruited to the Sovie...

David Glantz examines the Soviet study of war, the re-emergence of the operation level and its connection with deep battle, the evolution of the So...

Traditionally the military community held the intelligence profession in low esteem, spying was seen as dirty work and information was all to often...

Philip H. J. Davies is one of a growing number of British academic scholars of intelligence, but the only academic to approach the subject in terms...

Building on a strong foundation of primary sources, this unique study traces the role of East Germany's military (NVA) in the country's unification...

Concentrates on the economic and political aspects of China's security agenda, which have, to a certain extent, been given less prominence in most ...

This publication considers the lessons to be gained for Britain, the British armed forces, and for NATO as a whole, from the Yugoslav wars of disso...

This is the first comprehensive study based on a detailed textual analysis of the classical works on war by Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, Mao Tse-tung, and ...

Keith B. Bickel challenges a host of military and strategic theories that treat particular bureaucratic structures, large organizations, and elites...

This is the verbatim record of a secret and hitherto unpublished meeting, held in the Kremlin in April 1940, devoted to a post mortem of the Finnis...

A range of clandestine Cold War activities in Asia, from intelligence and propaganda to special operations and security support, is examined here. ...

In this volume, Professor Colin Gray develops and applies the theory and scholarship on the allegedly historical practice of the 'Revolution in Mil...

Intelligence was a central element of the Cold War and the need for it was expected to diminish after the USSR's collapse, yet in recent years it h...

Military affairs have been affected by major changes in recent years. The bipolar world of two superpowers has gone. The Cold War and the global mi...

Armies in the 1990s are commonly involved in low-level, ill-defined, politically charged, messy situations known collectively as "unconventional wa...

The relationship between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China is regarded as a very serious potential source of conflict in East Asia, especia...

Strategists assess the opportunities confronting Israel at the century's end and offer solutions to such issues as the economic consequences of pea...

The technical transformation of the Royal Navy during the Victorian era posed many design, tactical and operational problems for administrators fro...

Cunningham was the best-known and most celebrated British admiral of the Second World War. He held one of the two major fleet commands between 1939...

Forty years of confrontation in Europe have produced a complex set of conditioned reflexes in western military thinking. With the ending of the War...

The world was standing at the crossroads in 2015 as globalization propelled human beings into an increasingly integrated community of common destin...

Recent concern about mainland China's intentions towards Taiwan, and more general concern about the risk of instability in the region, has led to g...