War & Defence Operations

Presents the story of the Waterloo Campaign and illustrates just how desperate the battle was, with Wellington's Anglo-Dutch army hanging on to the...

This book considers contemporary international interventions with a specific focus on analyzing the frameworks that have guided recent peacekeeping...

Very few battles of the medieval period can be regarded as decisive but Hastings was certainly one of them. Fought on 14th October 1066 between Duk...

In 1999, after 24-years of violent military occupation by Indonesian forces, the small country of Timor-Leste became host to one of the largest UN ...

This critical examination of the final Soviet strategic offensive operation during World War II seeks to chip away at two generally inaccurate pict...

Focussing on one of the most fascinating episodes in military history, this book tells the story of the 1836 campaign in Texas, including the epic ...

Perspectives in Waging Conflicts Constructively offers diverse perspectives on how large-scale conflicts can be conducted with more positive benefi...

Perspectives in Waging Conflicts Constructively offers diverse perspectives on how large-scale conflicts can be conducted with more positive benefi...

The decision to mount an armed foreign intervention is one of the most consequential that a US president can take. This book sets out to explain wh...

This is a brilliant history of the rise to dominance of the West, exploring the links between cultural values and military success. Instead of weig...

Since its establishment, the UN's Peacebuilding Architecture (PBA) has been involved in peacebuilding processes in more than 20 countries. This edi...

At the request of the other Allies, on 9th August 1945, a force of over 1.5 million Red Army soldiers unleashed a massive attack against the Japane...

This special issue of Military Psychology reports behavioral, pharmacological, and toxicological science research on military performance as it is ...

This book deals with the processes and theories involved in managing military organisations in both peacetime and crisis conditions.Examining the c...

After drilling troops during the American Revolution, Baron Friedrich von Steuben reportedly noted that although one could tell a Prussian what to ...

After the ceasefire, a group of architects and planners from the American University of Beirut formed the Reconstruction Unit to help in the recove...

Since its establishment, the UN's Peacebuilding Architecture (PBA) has been involved in peacebuilding processes in more than 20 countries. This edi...

This volume provides a framework for analyzing security sector reform under international tutelage.Following violent conflict and military interven...

Beginning with the first battle at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861, when the Confederacy's General Pierre G.T. Beauregard and the...

In The Last Great Safari: East Africa in World War I, military historian Corey W. Reigel explores a fascinating and misunderstood theater of operat...

Contrary to many assessments that immediately followed the end of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, that war was neither short nor decisive. The 1991 conf...

From the first Union victories in the west at Forts Henry and Donelson to the savage battle of Shiloh and onward to the March to the Sea, the Seven...

Lois A. Ferguson was a training teacher for college graduates at a Japanese relocation center in California. Her husband set up a junior college...