Theory of Warfare & Military Science

This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and ...

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...

This is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the e...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of UK defence exports, as an example of the international trade in defence capabilities. The work explore...

The Social Impact of Oil (1982) examines how the town of Peterhead in the UK, hitherto a remote fishing port, was changed by North Sea oil. It look...

Saudi Arabia (1986) is a major study of the political and administrative development of Saudi Arabia following its establishment as a leading world...

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2016Perhaps the most basic national security question that U.S. leaders and the body politic continuously f...

This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global ...

This book examines the challenges that military forces will face in multinational operations in the 21st century.Expanding on Rupert Smith’s The Ut...

This book provides a descriptive and analytical narrative of the evolution of US foreign policy towards Iraq at the supra-national (global), nation...

Bringing together leading contributors in the field, this new volume analyzes how victory and defeat in modern war can be understood and explained....

Have globalization, virulent ethnic differences, and globally operating insurgents fundamentally changed the nature of war in the last decade? Inte...

Have globalization, virulent ethnic differences, and globally operating insurgents fundamentally changed the nature of war in the last decade? Inte...

Karl von Clausewitz's study On War was described by the American strategic thinker Bernard Brodie as 'not simply the greatest, but the only great b...

This handbook brings together historical and contemporary essays about Soviet and Russian military studies, to offer a comprehensive volume on the ...

This book, based on extensive field research, examines the Indian state’s response to the multiple insurgencies that have occurred since independen...

Only enter the battles you know you can win. Know how to deceive the enemy – appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. These a...

This book examines the large but neglected topic of the development of maritime power from both an historical and a contemporary point of view.Navi...

How are militarism and militarisation embodied and why is it important to study these concepts together? This volume highlights a lack of research ...

This book examines the large but neglected topic of the development of maritime power from both an historical and a contemporary point of view.Navi...

Contributions to this volume consider the importance of mediation in violent conflict. Practical and applied, this publication will be of interest ...

Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a series of lessons in the applied art of problem solving. Sun (544 BC-496 BC), an experienced general from the Warring...

This book offers a comprehensive moral theory of privatization in war.It examines the kind of wars that private actors might wage separate from the...

Occasionally, during times of peace, military forces achieve major warfighting innovations. Terry Pierce terms these developments 'disruptive innov...

This book provides an overview of how the UK tried to maintain and modernize its strategic and tactical nuclear weapons during 1974-82, whilst also...

Total defence, as a concept, combines and extends military and civil defence: in a state of war or emergency, all social institutions mobilize to d...

First published in 1988, Science, Politics and the Cold War is a history of the cold-war era that demonstrates the extent to which science and scie...

This book explores the causes, operations, endings, and justifications of war. In the process, it demolishes many currently fashionable illusions, ...

The only Latin art of war to survive, Vegetius’ Epitome was for long a part of the medieval prince’s military education. The core of his proposals,...

The National Research Council (NRC) was asked by the National Defense Intelligence College (NDIC) to convene a committee to review the curriculum a...

Generally, all great commanders all owe something to Gideon, victor over the Midianties about 1200 BC and to David, conqueror of Goliath, about 100...

A collection of some of the writings of Generalfeldmarschall Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, one of the more intriguing of Imperial Germany's military ...

In recent years, an increasing amount of research has argued that the successful transformation of rebel organization into parties is critical to s...

Sun Tzu was one of the greatest army generals who ever lived. He wrote The Art of War in the fifth century BC and yet his words are still resoundin...

Contributions to this volume consider the importance of mediation in violent conflict. Practical and applied, this publication will be of interest ...

Europe’s borders have always been historically ambiguous and dynamic, whereby borders shift and change character and new borders replace older ones...

This work explains and critically examines the main theoretical aspects of operational warfare at sea. It utilizes diverse examples from naval hist...

How are militarism and militarisation embodied and why is it important to study these concepts together? This volume highlights a lack of research ...

This book examines Pakistan's strategies in the war against Islamist armed groups that began late 2001, following the 9/11 attacks. The significanc...

The second edition of Secret Intelligence: A Reader brings together key essays from the field of intelligence studies, blending classic works on co...

With particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region, this book examines the rise and fall of sea powers.In the Asia-Pacific region there has been sign...

The second edition of Secret Intelligence: A Reader brings together key essays from the field of intelligence studies, blending classic works on co...

This book on intelligence analysis written by intelligence expert Dr. Stephen Marrin argues that scholarship can play a valuable role in improving ...

This book analyses the root causes of suicide terrorism at both the elite and rank-and- file levels of the Hamas and also explains why this tactic ...