Defence Strategy, Planning & Research

A generation after the First Gulf War, and in the wake of a decade of counterinsurgency operations and irregular warfare, this book explores how th...

At the turn of the twentieth century, Alfred Thayer Mahan and Julian Stafford Corbett emerged as foundational thinkers on naval strategy and mariti...

The United States, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics. Since the collaps...

Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE), which conducted sabotage campaigns and supported resistance movements in Axis-occupied Europe and in ...

Over the past fifty years, many thousands of conflict simulations have been published that bring the dynamics of past and possible future wars to l...

The end of the Cold War led to a dramatic and fundamental change in the foreign policy of the United States. In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum...

A rare, behind-the-scenes look at Russian military politicsWhy have Russian generals acquired an important political position since the Soviet Unio...

Logistics includes the planning and practice of moving stuffraw materials, tools, finished products, and even peoplefrom one place to another. It c...

The U.S. military is no longer based on a Cold War self-sufficient model. Today's armed forces are a third smaller than they were during the Cold W...

Why do presidents and their advisors often make sub-optimal decisions on military intervention, escalation, de-escalation, and termination of confl...

Why do presidents and their advisors often make sub-optimal decisions on military intervention, escalation, de-escalation, and termination of confl...

A richly detailed account of the hard-fought campaign that led to Antietam Creek and changed the course of the Civil War.In early September 1862 th...

The Strategic Survey is the annual review of world affairs from the International Institute for Strategic Studies. It is an invaluable tool for int...

DISCOVER THE EXHILARATING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ACTION-PACKED CLASSIC FILM'GOOSE AND MAVERICK MOVE OVER . . .' Admiral James Stavridis________March...

The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of ...

The exposure of two senior republicans as informers for British intelligence in 2005 led to a popular perception that the IRA had 'lost' the intell...

Overturns existing thinking to show that the Royal Navy engaged professionally in war planning in the years before the First World War. It has bee...

Borders are not just lines in the sand, but increasingly globalised spaces of practice. This is the case in West Africa, where a growing range of l...

This book is the first work to build a conceptual framework describing how the pursuit of military effectiveness can present military and political...

Learning, innovation and adaptation are not concepts that we necessarily associate with the British army of the First World War. Yet the need to le...

As U.S. strategy shifts (once again) to focus on great power competition, Strategy Shelved provides a valuable, analytic look back to the Cold War ...

Russian Information Warfare: Assault on Democracies in the Cyber Wild West examines how Moscow tries to trample the very principles on which democr...

The way an army thinks about and understands warfare has a tremendous impact on its organization, training, and operations. The central ideas of th...

The Craft of Wargaming is designed to support supervisors, planners, and analysts who use wargames to support their organizations' missions. The au...

A new framework contextualizes crucial international security issues at sea in the Indo-Pacific Competition at sea is once again a central issue o...

This book should be read by all practitioners and serious students of national security as the guide for avoiding failures and miscalculations in u...

In Margin of Victory Douglas Macgregor tells the riveting stories of five military battles of the twentieth century, each one a turning point in hi...

Joseph Arthur Simon's The Greatest of All Leathernecks is the first comprehensive biography of John Archer Lejeune (1867- 1942), a Louisiana native...

Essays provide current interpretations of Germany's military, economic, racial, and diplomatic policies in 1941. Nazi Germany's invasion of the So...

Terence Loveridge offers a unique look at the land and air operations around the strategic village of Monchy-le-Preux at the center of the western ...

Asian security institutions have struggled to adapt to the so-called 'non-traditional' security issues that characterise the strategic landscape of...