Defence Strategy, Planning & Research

The Navy has put forth a new construct for its strike forces that enables more effective forward deterrence and rapid response. A key aspect of thi...

This book analyses how banks implement counter-terrorist financing measures and experiment with technologies to assess risks and make security deci...

This book offers a gendered perspective on leadership in war and peace, considering leadership in its complexity and presenting a practical examina...

This book offers a gendered perspective on leadership in war and peace, considering leadership in its complexity and presenting a practical examina...

In the wake of September 11th and recent anthrax events, our nationa (TM)s bioterrorism response capability has become an imminent priority for pol...

Hannig Núñez analyzes the processes behind technology transfers at a state-decision-making level in Latin America. She challenges the conventional ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency reports numerous incidents of illicit trafficking in radioactive materials, including ionizing radiation sou...

In The Tank Debate, John Stone highlights the equivocal position that armour has traditionally occupied in Anglo-American thought, and explains why...

By exploring the role of military officers and chronicling the sequences of events, Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia offers insight into the...

A clearly articulated, well-defined, and relatively stable grand strategy is supposed to allow the ship of state to steer a steady course through t...

Drawing on oral testimony, previously unseen personal papers, and newly released archival information, this book provides a comprehensive account o...

If you take an interest in military and national security affairs, you have probably read the works of Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and Thucydides. But wha...

First published in 1979. The report of the Labour Party Defence Study Group, which met from early 1975 to mid-1977, represents a unique attempt to ...

A History of Traditional Chinese Military Science provides a clear and informative survey of traditional Chinese military theory and examines its d...

The modern-day UK intelligence and security community is the product of over a century of reviews going back to Edwardian spy scares, through two W...

If you take an interest in military and national security affairs, you have probably read the works of Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and Thucydides. But wha...

This volume brings together academics from the USA and across Europe to examine the nature, representations and perceptions of the figure of the sp...

This book debates competing approaches to ethical decision-making for members of the armed forces of liberal democratic states.In this volume, four...

The anthology discusses the formula of a «grand bargain» to denuclearize the Korean peninsula. Scholars from the US, South Korea, China, Russia and...

This book applies the concept of mediatization to the contemporary dynamic between war, media and society, with a focus on the Israel Defence Force...

This book looks at the history of the US Air Force through the lens of its (lack of) preparedness for major wars, which is shown to be a result of ...

This handbook comprises essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the topic of U.S. counterterrorism and irregular warfare campaigns and oper...

Scholars have long viewed intelligence as the preserve of nation states. Where the term 'private sector intelligence' is used, the focus has been o...

History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they co...

Spies, secret messages, and military intelligence have fascinated readers for centuries but never more than today, when terrorists threaten America...

This book debates competing approaches to ethical decision-making for members of the armed forces of liberal democratic states.In this volume, four...

This volume brings together scholars from different fields to explore the power, consequences and everyday practices of security expertise.Expertis...

Assessing trends toward creating innovative forms of political, economic and security co-operation in Southeast Asia, this text discusses the inter...

This book uses cross-cultural analysis across Eurasia and Afro-Asia to trace the roots of contemporary border disputes and insurgencies in South As...

The origins of the First World War remain one of the greatest twentieth century historical controversies. In this debate the role of military plann...

This is the first book to apply the Clausewitzian Trinity of 'passion, chance, and reason' to the experience of real war. It explores the depth and...

This book critically analyses the concept of the intelligence cycle, highlighting the nature and extent of its limitations and proposing alternativ...

In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged...

The National Institute for Public Policy’s new book, Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence, is the first of its kind. Dr. Keith Payne, the lat...

This edited volume addresses the main lessons and legacies of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis from a global perspective.Despite the discoveries of re...

An argument that domestic surveillance erodes civil liberties and fails to protect the country

The overseas basing of troops has been a central pillar of American military strategy since World War II--and a controversial one. Are these bases ...

An argument that domestic surveillance erodes civil liberties and fails to protect the country

China’s emergence as a great power is a global concern that can potentially alter the structure of world politics. Its rise is multidimensional, af...

This revised and updated second edition features over twenty new chapters and offers a wide-ranging collection of cutting-edge essays from leading ...

This anthology presents the complete text of thirty-four treaties that have effectively contained the spread of nuclear, biological, and convention...