Defence Strategy, Planning & Research

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 ...

William Gregory, Greg, to all, was born into a sharecropper's life in the hills of northcentral Tennessee. From the back of a mule-drawn plow, Greg...

Written by the renowned expert Nigel West, this book exposes the operations of Britain's overseas intelligence-gathering organisation, the famed Se...

This seminal work by historian Alexander Bennett presents a broad overview of the Japanese Way of the Warrior as it is expressed in scores of class...

War is too important to be left to the generals snapped future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau on learning of yet another bloody and futil...

Sometime in the late fall/early winter of 1962, a document began circulating among members of the Communist Party USA based in the Chicago area, ti...

When British troops first deployed to Northern Ireland in 1969 to keep apart rioting factions of loyalists and nationalists, they could not have kn...

Welcome to cyberspace - where all your computing and connection needs are on demand, and where security threats have never been more massive.A worl...

Britain is at a crossroads. As we leave the EU, we face a great challenge and also the opportunity to forge a new identity in an increasingly uncer...

On 27 May 1942, SS General Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated by British-trained Czech agents who had parachuted into Czechoslovakia. He died of hi...

Tony Brooks was unique. He was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service es...

How did German intelligence agents in the First World War use dead fish to pass on vital information to their operatives? What did an advertisement...

Handbook of Warning Intelligence: Assessing the Threat to National Security was written during the cold war and was classified for 40 years. The ma...

How the Nazis lost the war1944 was a year of trial for the German Army. While the Allies were preparing to invade the Third Reich from the west, St...

New in paperback, the story of MI9, Churchill's secret weapons development unit Praise for 'Toyshop' includes: 'a hilarious book and certain to am...

During the Second World War, the only way Winston Churchill and his American counterpart Franklin D. Roosevelt could communicate was via a top secr...

The breaking of the Enigma machine is one of the most heroic stories of the Second World War. But there was another German cipher machine, used by ...