Defence Strategy, Planning & Research

European armed forces are confronted with increasing recruitment and retention challenges as governments shift from compulsory service to all-volun...

Elephants have fought in human armies for more than three thousand years. Asian armies boasted of their pachyderm power, while the Romans fielded e...

A powerful new history of World War II - history's most brutal struggle for survival between imperial powers. In popular memory, World War II was a...

`A masterly study of the evolution of history's most successful war plan’ –The New York Times Book Review `A magnificent book’– General Colin L. ...

From the start of the Cold War to the fall of Saigon, from the jungles of Africa and beaches of Cuba to the polar icecap and mountains of Tibet, th...

The Great War or the "War to end all wars" as promised by President Woodrow Wilson was neither great nor ultimately conclusive. Precipitated by the...

Written by two World War II veterans who later became well-known war correspondents, this biography records the inspiring life of one of America's ...

Halley’s Comet helped to announce the fall of the Shang Dynasty in China, a solar eclipse frightened the Macedonian army enough at Pydna in 168 BC ...

Nothing Here Worth Dying For is a story of teamwork, perseverance, and redemption in modern warfare—an underdog story where the stakes are higher t...

Clausewitz in English is a work of intellectual history that examines the reception of Carl von Clausewitz's military theories in Britain and the U...

The 12th volume of the Archive opens with a study by Yefim Melamed (Kyiv) on the history of Stalinist secret services' surveillance of Jewish write...

For more than fifty years, the combined armed forces of the United States and the Republic of Korea have faced down the North Korean People’s Army ...

From the start of the Cold War to the fall of Saigon, from the Congo to Tibet, from the Bay of Pigs to North Vietnam and Nicaragua, here is a compr...