Theory of Warfare & Military Science

What makes a war just? What makes a specific weapon, strategy, or decision in war just? The tradition of Just War Theory has provided answers to th...

A few years ago the author, Chris Brown, gave a lecture to a group of fifty eminent historians. He asked them two questions: had they ever written ...

Historically, prolonged campaigns have been frequently lost or won because of the greater fitness of one of the combatant armies. In the twentieth ...

Builds a revisionary theoretical framework for researching intelligence knowledge and applies it to the Swedish Military and Security DirectorateGu...

Essential reading for those concerned about Trump''s America. A war with China and North Korea is not inevitable, but neither is an American vic...

In this fascinating foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist and the world's best sc...

Warrior Geeks examines how technology is transforming the way we think about and fight war, taking three major changes that are driving this proces...

Since the end of the Cold War, scholars, military historians and analysts have struggled to agree a workable definition of contemporary warfare wit...

This samurai strategy books is the first widely available English translation of Yamamoto Kansuke's classic treatise on strategy and tactics.Secret...

Any state at war attempts to steer the conflict to the point where it can demonstrate its relative advantage. Thus underlying each war is a struggl...

The Encyclopedia of Military Science provides a comprehensive, ready-reference on the organization, traditions, training, purpose, and functions of...

Soldier and intellectual Carl von Clausewitz first entered combat at the tender age of thirteen. He later rose to the rank of Major General, marrie...

Clint Palmer has spent much of his adult life in the SAS and has fought in this elite military unit as it developed from its fledgling beginnings i...

About the Allies victory in the Pacific in WWII, it goes almost without question that Japans defeat was inevitable in the face of overwhelming Amer...

The rise of American Empire has coincided with appeals for a more humane war. But what if efforts to make war more ethical-to ban torture and limit...

It is better to ask yourself how competent you are than to ask gods and demons. Wei Liaozi takes a theoretical approach in exploring a governing...

One shall first use benevolence and righteousness, and then authority and deception. A later addition to China''s most influential military text...

How a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914but shaped Britains success in the Second World War and beyond Leading historian Andr...

In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan. In fifty years spanning the collapse of the To...

Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of Americas preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectiv...

World War II was the most destructive war in history. Millions upon millions of people died, including innocent civilians. Both sides-the Allies an...

Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple vic...

After eight challenging years in Afghanistan, the new U.S. strategy, aimed at winning hearts and minds rather than search-and-destroy, refocuses th...

How robots will change our world Some fear that robots could do half our jobs and even wipe us out. But is that likely?  Smart machines already m...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER MEDAL FOR MILITARY LITERATURE** **SHORTLISTED FOR BRITISH ARMY BOOK OF TH...

Simon MacDowall examines how this relatively small group of Germans came to be overlords of all of the former Roman province of Gaul, giving their ...

This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete. In exile on the island of Saint-Helena, the deposed Emperor of ...

Historians of American environmentalism have long given religion either a negligible role or a negative one in the development of the field. Accord...

A social history of the ordinary British soldier during World War IIReflects impressively wide reading, and commands respect for its shrewd judgmen...

The UK is one of nine states possessing nuclear weapons. Renewal of the Trident programme would extend Britains commitment to so-called nuclear det...

Very little has been written about the U-boat war in the Indian Ocean, where almost forty German submarines were assigned to operate from the Malay...

In today's dominant discourse of liberal interventionism, the role of coercion and the monopoly of violence have been neglected, argues Antonio Giu...