Defence Strategy, Planning & Research

This new Handbook provides readers with the tools to understand the evolution of transatlantic security from the Cold War era to the early 21st cen...

This edited volume introduces the reader to the role of space in military and defense strategy, and outlines some of the major foreign and domestic...

First published in 1989, this title explores the nature and dimensions of the U.S. strategy in the Gulf in the formative years that followed the fa...

John Ferris' work in strategic and intelligence history is widely praised for its originality and the breadth of its research. At last his major pi...

The under-regulation of the private security industry has increasingly become a topic of media and academic interest. This Adelphi Paper enters the...

This edited volume focuses on India's experiences waging counterinsurgency campaigns since its independence in 1947. Filling a clear gap in the lit...

With tensions between Iran, Israel, and Western powers reaching new highs over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment program, the tenth edition...

This book, first published in 1992, examines defence issues as the twentieth century drew to a close. With the end of the Cold War, many of the thr...

Despite publicity given to the successes of British and American codebreakers during the Second World War, the study of signals intelligence is sti...

The twenty-first century has brought the perfect storm of conditions to create substantive global instability. This contemporary operating environm...

This book develops a new approach in explaining how a nation's Grand Strategy is constituted, how to assess its merits, and how grand strategies ma...

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 radical new history of history's most brutal struggle for survival between imperial powers. In popular memory, World War II was an unalloyed vict...

`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 ...

In this sharp, challenging memoir, Col Seth Folsom lays bare the complexities of modern military combat advisor missions at the twilight of Americ...

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...