Theory of Warfare & Military Science

A rare, behind-the-scenes look at Russian military politicsWhy have Russian generals acquired an important political position since the Soviet Unio...

Has any war in history gone according to plan? Monarchs, autocrats and elected leaders alike have a dismal record on launching and prosecuting wars...

Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity fighting continues for years bring about a disp...

China has evolved from a nation with local and regional security interests to a major economic and political power with global interests, investmen...

Become a Better Martial Artist by Applying Lessons from the World's Greatest Military Strategists from Sun Tzu to Von ClausewitzLessons in the Art ...

John A. Vasquez explains the processes that cause the spread of interstate war by looking at how contagion worked to bring countries into the First...

The Armchair General team has done it again. An absorbing read for Christmas.Peter Caddick-AdamsBrilliant and immersive.Harry SidebottomThe second ...

New essays exploring the relationship between warfare and Enlightenment thought both historically and in the present. Enlightened War investigates...

What role does ethics play in modern-day warfare? Is it possible for ethics and militarism to exist hand-in-hand? James Eastwood examines the Israe...

Russian Information Warfare: Assault on Democracies in the Cyber Wild West examines how Moscow tries to trample the very principles on which democr...

Fighting the Fleet recognizes that fleets conduct four distinct but interlocking tasks at the operational level of war--striking, screening, scouti...

When Conrad Crane retired from active duty to become a research professor,he never expected to become a modern Cassandra, fated to tell truth to po...

In The Classical Art of Command, Joseph Roisman examines eight of history's best-known generals and commanders from the Classical Age of Greece. Th...

War Is Not a Game tells the story of this new soldiers antiwar movement, showing why it was born, how it quickly grew, where it has struggled, what...

Transforming NATO: New Allies, Missions, and Capabilities, by Ivan Dinev Ivanov, examines the three dimensions of NATOs transformation since the en...

The people of Colombia have, for the last fifty years, been subject to a specific form of violence: paramilitarism. An embodiment of the dark under...

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of...

A date which will live in infamy.US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sunday, December 7, 1941, was supposed to be a day of rest for the military...

The central task of all statebuilding is to create a state that is regarded as legitimate by the people over whom it exercises authority. This is a...

Winner of the Jefferson Davis AwardWinner of the Johns Family Book AwardWinner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing AwardA work ...

War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict provides insights for those involved in the design of mili...

The twentieth century was dominated by war and by preparations for war in a way that is unparalleled in history. Originally published in 1988, this...

Through US military history, Lavender directly confronts the dominant US viewpoint of redemptive violence, the concept that a nation can use its mi...

The Sunday Times bestselling edge-of-your-seat exploration of what would happen in the event of nuclear war, perfect for readers of American Promet...

Up to now, no one outside of official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the Pentagon. Seco...

The intersection of technology and war is a longstanding research area and a key area of debate. The book is written by a leading figure in defen...

While faith in the Enlightenment was waning elsewhere by 1850, at the United States Military Academy at West Point and in the minds of academy grad...

The People''s Republic of China (PRC) continues to pursue a long-term, comprehensive military modernisation program designed to improve its armed f...

The just war tradition is central to the practice of international relations, in questions of war, peace, and the conduct of war in the contemporar...

Negotiating a peaceful end to civil wars, which often includes an attempt to bring together former rival military or insurgent factions into a new ...

Coup dÉtat astonished readers when it first appeared in 1968 because it showed, step by step, how governments could be overthrown. Translated into ...

These essays from the journal International Security assess the technical feasibility and the strategic desirability of defense against ballistic m...

Machiavelli on War offers a comprehensive interpretation of the philosopher-historian's treatment of war throughout his writings, from poems and me...

Troubled Waters looks at four dynamics in the Persian Gulf that have contributed to making the region one of the most volatile and tension-filled s...

In this innovative theoretical book, Elizabeth Kier uses a cultural approach to take issue with the conventional wisdom that military organizations...