Theory of Warfare & Military Science

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

Prior to the progressive development of the law of armed conflict heralded by the 1949 Geneva Conventions most particularly in relation to the con...

This book proposes a framework of analysis tailored specifically for a critical investigation of the ideology of power as it is linguistically illu...

The risks of arms control and disarmament, how they can be reduced or eliminated, and the political implications of drastic disarmament are analyze...

The threat to the survival of humankind posed by nuclear weapons has been a frightening and essential focus of public debate for the last four deca...

The Army is composed of both an Active Component (AC) and a Reserve Component (RC). The AC consists of soldiers who are in the Army as their full-t...

China is building a modern and regionally powerful military with a modest but growing capability for conducting operations away from China''s immed...

SOMEONE ELSE'S EMPIRE dispels the myth of a 'Global Britain' that punches above its weight in the world. The reality, argues Tom Stevenson, is that...

The United States of America will use all our resources to conquer this enemy. We will rally the world. We will be patient. Well be focused, and we...

Operations research (OR) is a core discipline in military and defense management. Coming to the forefront initially during World War II, OR provide...

Professor Knorr examines bends in the values which nations derive in their international relationships from the possession and use of both nuclear ...

Daniel Whittingham presents the first full-length study of one of Britain's most important military thinkers, Major-General Sir Charles E. Callwell...

Azar Gat sets out to resolve one of the age-old questions of human existence: why people fight and can they stop. Spanning warfare from prehistory ...

Why do human beings fight one another?In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mo...

Red teaming. It is a practice as old as the Devil's Advocate, the eleventh-century Vatican official charged with discrediting candidates for sainth...

The anthology Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors showcases writing from military veterans and their families from across the nation, includi...

In the U.S. Navy Wheel Books were once found in the uniform pockets of every junior and many senior petty officers. Each small notebook was unique ...

War, like death and taxes, seems eternal but is it inevitable? Do nations simply blunder into it? What is victory and how is it achieved? The auth...

Laura Sjoberg positions gender and gender subordination as key factors in the making and fighting of global conflict. Through the lens ofgender, sh...

On April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mall, wondering whether they would be arrested by daybreak. Veterans ...

This book explores the overarching phenomenon of how force short of war is being used in modern conflict, and how it impacts just war theory. It sh...