Defence Strategy, Planning & Research

Under the growing shadow of the Cold War, President Eisenhower announced his 'Open Skies' initiative to Soviet, British and French delegations at t...

The first of a series of five books on the German army of World War II. This volume focuses on their achievements from 1935 to 1940, and how the mi...

This book examines India’s foreign intelligence culture and strategic surprises in the 20th century.The work looks at whether there is a distinct w...

This book analyses how and to what extent ex-communist states have adjusted their defence strategies since joining the EU and NATO, and how differe...

This account of the Yorktown campaign of the American Revolution presents six full-colour battle scenes detailing the critical points in the battle...

During the 14th and 15th centuries military tactics in Europe underwent a period of sustained transformation of which the outcome was the rejuvenat...

The years from 1914 to 1918 saw a whole series of complex and very rapid changes in infantry tactics, which fundamentally altered the way wars had ...

Now available in paperback, Psychology and Deterrence reveals deterrence strategy's hidden and generally simplistic assumptions about the nature of...

The emerging threat of a militarily powerful Soviet Union after the Second World War caused the United States to rearm and look to the defence of i...

In the first book to focus on civil-military tensions after American wars, Thomas Langston challenges conventional theory by arguing that neither c...

This book is the first full-length study of a key security issue confronting the west in the twenty-first century, urban military operations - as c...

The extended peace the world anticipated following the decisive Allied victory in the Second World War was abruptly shattered in June 1950 by the i...

Based on original research in the Public Records Office, this book examines the world of the secret service in the last days of the British Empire ...

First Published in 2004. Events in the Gulf Crisis of 1990–91 have highlighted the importance of the increasingly complex and difficult relations b...

Hitler conceived the Atlantic Wall during World War II as a line of impregnable fortifications along the western coast of Europe to protect his new...

This is a graphic portrayal of the crucial part played by aircraft and personnel of the US Army Air Force (USAAF), American Office of Strategic Ser...

This book provides insights into Soviet naval's developments, strategic, operational, institutional, and intellectual, during the turbulent crises ...

This collection of texts has been taken from formerly classified material in the official Red Army General Staff journal 'Military Thought'. The re...

State sponsorship of terrorism is a complex and important topic in today's international affairs - and especially pertinent in the regional politic...

On a chilly autumn night in 1942, a German spy was rowed ashore from a U-boat off the Gaspé coast to begin a deadly espionage mission against the A...

Thirty-five years ago, Sir John Hackett published The Third World War, which speculated how WW3 might start and how it would be fought. Since it is...

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the important security issue of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.Nuclear nonproliferation and dis...

Although social movements and media can help destabilize authoritarian governments, not all social protest is effective or culminates in the toppli...

While coups drive a majority of regime changes and are responsible for the overthrow of many democratic governments, there has been very little emp...

Salisbury Plain is the UK's largest military training area, measuring approximately 25 miles across and ten miles from top to toe. This book examin...

With the ever-growing interest in Hitler's Atlantic Wall, it comes as a surprise that so little has been written about it in the English language -...

While other books have speculated on the history and nature of Britain's intelligence services, this is the first to tell the story through the doc...

The Military Balance is The International Institute for Strategic Studies’ annual assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of ...

When the Germans invaded her small Belgian village in 1914, Marthe Cnockaert’s home was burned and her family separated. After getting a job at a G...