Theory of Warfare & Military Science

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 ...

Jai Galliott explores the overarching phenomenon of how force short of war is being used in modern conflict, and how it impacts just war theory. He...

The Maori economy is often defined simply by the contributions of Maori in New Zealand in the areas of farming, fisheries and forestry. This book e...

One of the greatest and most terrible years in world history.This war has now assumed the character, wrote Benito Mussolini, before 1941 was six mo...

As the People's Republic's seemingly inexorable rise to economic and military power con-tinues, never has the need for a better grasp of Chinese st...

When RobertHaddickwroteFire on the Water,firstpublished in 2014, most policy experts and thepublicunderestimated thethreat China's military moderni...

An Unplanned Life is the scintillating memoir of George Elsey, a small-town kid from western Pennsylvania who, at age twenty-four, was assigned to ...

In The Dictator''s Army, Caitlin Talmadge presents a compelling new argument to help us understand why authoritarian militaries sometimes fight ver...

John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries beginning as a young cavalry lieutenant in Arizona in 1872, and ending the evening before his ...

This is not a book about philosophy and war. It is a book on contemporary conflict in which the author invokes philosophy to help understand the pr...

Japan's business executives have long applied Musashi's teachings to their business methods. This book - the original life-guide by Japan's greates...

Rebooting Clausewitz offers an entirely new take on the work of history's greatest theorist of war. Written for an undergraduate readership that of...

Military veterans have had the most intensive leadership training, mentoring, and experience available anywhere. Many return to their communities s...

What significance does ethics have for the men and women serving in the military forces of nations around the world? What core values and moral pri...

Salisbury Plain is the UKs largest military training area, measuring approximately 25 miles across and ten miles from top to toe. Thearea includes ...

Peace, many would agree, is a goal that democratic nations should strive to achieve. Considering the question of whether democracy is dependent on ...

'War is the most important thing in the world', writes Martin van Creveld, one of the world's best-known experts on military history and strategy. ...

This brief, provocative, and accessible book offers snapshots of seven pernicious myths in military history that have been perpetrated on unsuspect...

This brief, provocative, and accessible book offers snapshots of seven pernicious myths in military history that have been perpetrated on unsuspect...

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...

As the People's Republic's seemingly inexorable rise to economic and military power con-tinues, never has the need for a better grasp of Chinese st...

After World War II, the United States military increasingly found itself involved in operations that have been described variously as limited wa...

In the post 9/11 world, the emotionally charged concepts of identity and ideology, enmity and political violence have once again become household w...

From Angola and Liberia to Iraq and the Congo, wars have taken place in resource rich countries full of poor people. In Wars of Plunder Philippe Le...

Is your Facebook page a threat to national security? What about your mommas address? Only while deployed in service to our country can you complete...

Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz famously wrote that War is the continuation of politics by other means. But what does Clausewitz mean to a wor...

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...