Defence Strategy, Planning & Research

What is hybrid warfare? And what role does information play in todays conflicts? In the context of the technological/information revolution of the ...

Who knew the CIA needed librarians? More Stories from Langley reveals the lesser-known operations of one of the most mysterious government agencies...

At the height of its power, the Roman Empire encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin, extending much beyond it from Britain to Mesopotamia, from...

What are the role and place of secret services and covert operations in democratic settings? How do states balance the need for both secrecy and op...

The horrifying terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and the anthrax strikes that soon followed gave the United States new reason to fear unconv...

The horrifying terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and the anthrax strikes that soon followed gave the United States new reason to fear unconv...

In this provocative history, David Tucker argues that irregular warfare-including terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and other insurgency tactics-is int...

Russias Military Strategy and Doctrine is designed to educate Russia watchers, policymakers, military leaders, and the broader foreign policy commu...

International politics have become ever more volatile over the last decade, increasing the risk of large-scale military violence. Yet the precise c...

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...