Defence Strategy, Planning & Research

The apartheid agent and killer who got away with it all It was in 1972 when the seemingly ordinary Craig Williamson registered at Wits University a...

India is among the few countries with home made satellites in orbit. Indian Space programme while being impressive with arrays of achievements in p...

War, like death and taxes, seems eternal but is it inevitable? Do nations simply blunder into it? What is victory and how is it achieved? The auth...

How nonstate military strategies overturn traditional perspectives on warfareSince September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increa...

Hitlers Germany made sustained efforts to inflict a terror campaign on the streets of Britain through the use of secret agents and agents provocate...

During the Second World War, a secret department was formed at Britain''s Air Ministry to co-ordinate a strategy to defeat German bombing by means ...

During the Second World War daring and highly unusual missions were mounted by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) - formed on Churchill's order...

Military snipers are highly trained marksmen who target individual enemy soldiers. They are regarded as vital specialists in modern warfare, and th...

The London Blitz and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour are iconic myths for Britain and America. Few in either nation realise, however, that the...

Sebastien Le Prestre, Marshal Vauban, was one of the greatest military engineers of all time. His complex, highly sophisticated fortress designs, h...

An academic biography of Colonel David de Crespigny Smiley and his intimate involvement in British secret service operations This book illuminates ...

Ten years after the publication of his Services Spéciaux (1935-1945), Paillole took up his pen once again in order to shed further light on the cri...

Dr Paul Moorcraft''s recent controversial and prophetic book on Islamic terrorism a The Jihadist Threat: The Re-conquest of the West? a raised ...

When Neville Chamberlain made his famous Peace in Our Time statement in 1938, after the Munich Agreement with Hitler, he may, or may not, have been...

When the top secret codebreaking activities at Bletchley Park were revealed in the 1970s, much of the history of the Second World War had to be rew...

BRIXMIS (British Commander-in-Chiefs Mission to the Group Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany) is one of the most covert elite units of the Brit...

In December 1944 the Third Reich was retreating. It was almost inconceivable that they could mount a counter offensive. To the Allies, the capitul...

Logistics have become a principle, if not a governing factor, in modern military operations. Armies need to be fed and supplied and the larger the ...

Sieges played a key role in the crusades, but they tend to be overshadowed by the famous battles fought between the Franks and the Muslims, and no ...