Theory of Warfare & Military Science

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

Necessity and proportionality hold a firm place in the international law governing the use of force by states, as well as in the law of armed confl...

What does AI mean for the role of humans in war? The AI Commander addresses the largely neglected question of how the fusion of machines into the w...

How does armed conflict shape global politics? And, critically, can it ever be regulated, a necessary first step to achieving a more peaceful world...

This book interrogates the often controversial civil-military relations debate in Zimbabwe. The study argues that, theoretically, Civil-Military Re...

Throughout history society has determined specific rules of engagement between adversaries in armed conflict. With advances in technology, from ar...

These essays from the journal International Security cover aspects of past and present naval technologies and explore current disputes over America...

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

Why do we--not the politicians or the generals, but ordinary people--so often and so willingly support war, in the west and elsewhere? In search of...

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...

These essays from the journal International Security cover aspects of past and present naval technologies and explore current disputes over America...

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

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

If pacifists are correct in thinking that war is always unjust, then it follows that we ought to eliminate the possibility and temptation of ever e...

Highlighting the just war tradition in historical perspective, this valuable study looks at contemporary implications drawn out in the context of s...

Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West's ability and responsibility to help make the world a better place for others, in part...

The prohibition of the use of force in international law is one of the major achievements of international law in the past century. The attempt to ...

Since ancient times, poets, historians, and philosophers have contemplated warlords' exploits in battle and praised their ability to lead armies to...

Over the last decade (and indeed ever since the Cold War), the rise of insurgents and non-state actors in war, and their readiness to use terror an...

Special Forces are a key component of every modern army, capable of carrying out clandestine operations, reconnaissance, and incisive attacks behin...

Over the last 20 years, the role of unmanned aircraft systems in modern warfare has grown at an unprecedented rate. No longer simply used for intel...