Defence Strategy, Planning & Research

Few historians have looked beyond the veil of the Teapot Dome scandal and examined the naval policies of President Warren Harding and his secretary...

This edited volume examines the impact of globalisation on the economies, security policies and military-industrial complexes of the Asia-Pacific r...

Among the allied troops that came ashore in Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were thirteen Comanches in the 4th Infantry Division, 4th Signal Compa...

"For its intelligence and humanitarian achievements, for its political honesty, for its power and its beauty (there is no other word), this book de...

This is a handbook of tactics based on the ancient Chinese military classics. This unique work draws on over two thousand years of experience of wa...

"Excellent." —The Reader's Review"Thomas Burns takes us thoroughly through this moment of crisis, giving us a precise analysis of the principal pla...

This book offers an original assessment of the ways in which the sociocultural code of blood revenge and its modern remnants shape irregular warfar...

The advent of nuclear weapons in the 1940s brought enormous changes to doctrines regarding the use of force in resolving disputes. American strateg...

The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which the end of the Cold War led to Europeanisation in the Common Security and Defence Policy (C...

This book provides a framework for analysing the interplay between securitisation and foreign affairs, reconnecting critical security studies with ...

Low Intensity Operations is an important, controversial and prophetic book that has had a major influence on the conduct of modern warfare. First p...

The cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow in 1959 holds such a grip on the imagination of Canadians that earlier developments in defence procurement rem...

Using major new documentary sources, this book tells the story of why and how China built its nuclear submarine flotilla and the impact of that dev...

The availability of land bases from which to launch and maintain military, diplomatic, and humanitarian relief operations is becoming increasingly ...

Surveying the expanding conflict in Europe during one of his famous fireside chats in 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt ominously warned that "we ...

This work explains and critically examines the main theoretical aspects of operational warfare at sea. It utilizes diverse examples from naval hist...

In December 1941, Japan attacked multiple targets in the Far East and the Pacific, including Canadian battalions stationed in Hong Kong. The disast...

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2016Perhaps the most basic national security question that U.S. leaders and the body politic continuously f...

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A CUNNING CHRONICLE OF THE 50 CODES THAT ALTERED THE COURSE OF HISTORY AND CHANGED THE WORLDFrom the bestselling author of Bletchley Park Brainteas...

When Queen Victoria acceded to the British throne in 1837, British troops had recently concluded a war in southern Africa against the Xhosa people,...

This text assesses the changing dimensions of national security in a world where business and technology issues have moved to centre stage, and tra...

The history of Special Operations Executive (SOE) seems to spring a never-ending run of surprises, and here are some more. This book explores the m...

The proliferation of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons is now the single most serious security concern for governments around the world. Pe...

This is the story of Reuven Shiloah - the man who established the Mossad, and laid the foundations for the intelligence community of the State of I...

This collection of vignettes was written by Soviet junior officers describing their experiences fighting the Mujahideen guerillas. It is not a hist...

Chris Demchak explores the reasons why military machines surprise their users and how they can change both the complexity and effectiveness of tact...

This book brings to light many aspects of the Tet offensive of 1968, an event acknowledged as the turning-point of the Vietnam War. Using previousl...

These essays cover: assessment systems now in place in Britain, the USA, Germany and Australia; the bureaucratic dynamics of analysis and assessmen...

Nicholas Eftimiades examines the infiltration of Chinese espionage agents into foreign governments and private businesses. He specifically addresse...

It is not hyperbole to suggest that the foundations of post-cold war security in Europe have been badly damaged by the conflict in Ukraine since 20...

At the end of World War II, Britain faced enormous financial and economic problems, made more intractable by the heavy defence expenditure demanded...

This book offers a comprehensive moral theory of privatization in war.It examines the kind of wars that private actors might wage separate from the...

The sudden transformation of the Cold War security order in 1989 altered the structure of the European state system, and necessitates the striking ...

First published in 1990, this is an authoritative account of defence spending and policy in both developing and developed countries. The book provi...

Covering the lives and achievements of five English intelligence officers involved in wars at home and abroad between 1870 and 1918, this exception...

From a military operational standpoint, surprise is an event or capability that could affect the outcome of a mission or campaign for which prepara...

This book assesses how progress in disarmament diplomacy in the last decade has improved human security.In doing so, the book looks at three cases ...

This new collection of essays, from leading British and Canadian scholars, presents an excellent insight into the strategic thinking of the British...

The failure of the Gallipoli campaign was instantly blamed on a great untruth – that the War Office was unprepared. This book, incorporating inform...

First published in 1990, this is an authoritative account of defence spending and policy in both developing and developed countries. The book provi...

Creating Military Power examines how societies, cultures, political structures, and the global environment affect countries' military organizations...

This is an accessible new examination of what ‘security’ means today, contextualizing the term amongst other key ideas, such as the nation state, d...

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...