Defence Strategy, Planning & Research

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...

Scotlands unique geography and topography provided a useful base for Allied military preparations during the Cold War, a 40-year nuclear stand-off ...

The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of ...