Defence Strategy, Planning & Research

The Second World War prompted the recruitment and training of British soldiers on a scale never seen since. Physical training, sports, recreational...

The training which in ordinary times would form the course of study for years now has to be crammed into a few months, and it stands to reason that...

WINNER OF THE FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 The instant New York Times bestseller A Financial Times and The Times Book of...

''Fascinating ... This monumental work completes the authorised picture of a century of British intelligence'' BEN MACINTYRE, THE TIMES ''[A] ...

When RobertHaddickwroteFire on the Water,firstpublished in 2014, most policy experts and thepublicunderestimated thethreat China's military moderni...

Israel has fought many wars since its founding in 1948, from conventional military conflicts with Arab forces to irregular clashes with guerrill...

In the eighty years since Pearl Harbor, the United States has developed a professional intelligence community that is far more effective than most ...

Since the Cold War, outer space has become of strategic importance for nations looking to seize the ultimate high ground. World powers establishing...

Over the last decade, expensive and unpopular wars, recession, ballooning debt, and the rise of China and other regional powers have brought the li...

The Iraqi Triangle of Death, south of Baghdad, was a raging inferno of insurgent activity in August of 2006; by November 2007, attacks had been ...

Anne Glyn- Jones opens up the secret world of the interceptors of German Morse Code signals during World War II. Leaving her girls boarding school ...

Anne Glyn- Jones opens up the secret world of the interceptors of German Morse Code signals during World War II. Leaving her girls boarding school ...

Volume 2 continues the history of the U.S. Marine Corps' involvement in small wars after World War II, beginning with advisory efforts with the ...

In Dying to Learn, Michael Hunzeker develops a novel theory to explain how wartime militaries learn. He focuses on the Western Front, which witness...

In The Dictator''s Army, Caitlin Talmadge presents a compelling new argument to help us understand why authoritarian militaries sometimes fight ver...

Ronald Koorm has given talks and lectures on the codebreaking outstations for several years this is the last piece of the amazing Bletchley jigsaw...

Art of War Strategic Puzzles provides the armchair general with a rigorous military strategic workout. There are 80 puzzles inspired by real-world ...

The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after wa...