Defence Strategy, Planning & Research

On December 7, 1941, an imperial Japanese carrier strike force attacked the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, taking advantage of what was one of t...

Ten years after the end of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, a career Foreign Service officer, Thomas J. Corcoran, set down in writing h...

Major General Charles A. Willoughby served as Douglas MacArthur's stalwart chief intelligence officer (G-2} for over a decade, throughout World War...

Inside Defense brings together scholars, policy experts and practitioners to provide a comprehensive view of the U.S. military to understand the mi...

Why Spy? is the result of Brian Stewart's seventy years of working in, and studying the uses and abuses of, intelligence in the real world. Few boo...

EUROPE, 1940. NAZI FORCES SWEEP ACROSS THE CONTINENT, WITH A BRITISH INVASION LIKELY ONLY WEEKS AWAY. NEVER BEFORE HAS A RESISTANCE MOVEMENT BEEN S...

The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the U.S. approached terrorism, and led to the unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategies...

Cybersecurity is a complex and contested issue in international politics. By focusing on the 'great powers'--the US, the EU, Russia and China--stud...

Why do nations break into one another's most important computer networks? There is an obvious answer: to steal valuable information or to attack. B...

When Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people in Syria, he clearly crossed President Barack Obamas red line. At the time, many ...

The Art of Creating Power explores the intellectual thought and wider impact--on military affairs, politics and the universities--of Professor Sir ...

Distilling the ideas of the greatest military theoreticians of history, including Sun Tzu, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Carl von Clausewitz, this clear...

Given the length of time the United States spent in Iraq, there is a perception that there was no consideration before the war of what should be do...

Throughout history, nature its resources, landscape and terrain has shaped the tactics of warfare and determined its outcomes. From the medieval ...

'David Omand is exactly the man you need in a crisis' RORY STEWART From the former Director of GCHQ comes a guide to surviving crises using the lat...

A copy of the top-secret memo below recently came into our hands, and we thought we should bring it to your attention!Dear National Security Elite:...

This volume highlights the impact of global trends on defense reform and civil-military relations, including phenomena such as globalization and ec...