Warfare & Defence

Spurred by their commanders during the Korean War to be tigers, aggressive and tenacious American fighter pilots charged headlong into packs of fir...

Examining the organization of everyday life inside the regiments of the French Foreign Legion, this book takes its theoretical point of departure i...

Chinas nuclear arsenal has long been an enigma. The arsenal has historically been small, based almost exclusively on land-based ballistic missiles,...

Dr. Larivé questions whether there is such a thing as a European defense and security policy. This book analyzes the integration process by clearl...

The twelfth volume in the series Indias National Security: Annual Review offers a detailed analysis of Indias complex security environment: persist...

GIS for Critical Infrastructure Protection highlights the GIS-based technologies that can be used to support critical infrastructure protection and...

Fully revised and updated, this fifth edition of Understanding Global Security considers the variety of ways in which peoples lives are threatened ...

The Spartan City State produced what is probably one of the most iconic and ruthless military forces in recorded history. They believed that milita...

Maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia was first recognised as a global concern in 2008 after the hijackings of World Food Programme vessels. It ...

European armed forces have undergone deep changes in the past two decades. Given the breadth of the debate and the size of transformations that too...

As economic powers from the developing world, particularly China, have emerged in the past few decades, their weight has altered the balance in th...

From the first interactions between European and native peoples to the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, military issues have always played...

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most prominent issues in world politics today. Few other issues have dominated the worlds headlines ...

This book analyses whether the EUs drift towards European strategic autonomy presents a challenge or a window of opportunity for its small member s...

The Vietnam War is one of the longest and most controversial in US history. This book seeks to explore what lessons the US military took from that ...

The Number 1 best seller is updated This newly updated book features 2 new Chapters of content and insights infiltration of China, Russia and Irani...

Material objects lie at the crux of understanding individual and social relationships in history, and the Civil War era is no exception. Before, du...

Isaac Johnson was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1844. His father, Richard Yeager, was a white farmer and his mother, Jane Johnson, was an ens...

This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic'...

As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like sea power derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive b...

Twentieth-century war is a unique cultural phenomenon and the last two decades have seen significant advances in our ability to conceptualize and u...

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the global diffusion of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) and its impact on military innova...

Survival, the IISSs bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of th...

As an upbeat and peaceful uprising quickly and brutally descended into a zero-sum civil war, Syria has crumbled from a regional player into an aren...

Responding to security scholars puzzling dearth of attention to children and childhoods, the contributors to this volume reveal the ways in which t...

Between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, the social and cultural worlds of medieval Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean were transformed by t...

The story of Fort McHenry's defense during the War of 1812 is well known, but Lion in the Bay is an intimate look at the events leading up to the b...

The Strategic Survey is a journal of records that includes all relevant names and titles, chronologies and dates. But it is also much more: the har...

Maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia was first recognised as a global concern in 2008 after the hijackings of World Food Programme vessels. It ...

North American Border Conflicts: Race, Politics, and Ethics adds to the current discussion on class, race, ethnic, and sectarian divides, not only ...

This book offers a detailed examination of the counter-insurgency operations undertaken by the Nigerian military against Boko Haram between 2011 an...

Contemporary security governance often relies on markets and networks to link public agencies to non-governmental actors. This book explores the ri...

The essays in this volume are concerned with armed conflicts in South Asia and the conflict management efforts made to mitigate them. Articles in t...

How and why China has pursued information-age weapons to gain leverage against its adversariesHow can states use military force to achieve their po...

How and why China has pursued information-age weapons to gain leverage against its adversariesHow can states use military force to achieve their po...

Only two years after Sputnik, weapons were created for attacking spacecraft. These were based on land. But now there is talk of weapons in space-in...

First published in 1986. This book integrates current knowledge about the military, political, economic, and cultural roles of the armed forces in ...

This volume of case studies examines the rise in violent extremism, terrorism and insurgency in South and South East Asia, and subsequent state res...

Conveniently structured into five sections, The Routledge Research Companion to Outsourcing Security offers an overview of the different ways in wh...

This book investigates the extent to which the EU has defined and operationalised the notion of effective multilateralism.Reform has dominated the ...

This vivid history of the Civil War era reveals how unexpected bonds of union forged among diverse peoples in the Ohio-Kentucky borderlands further...

As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and wh...

The Military Balance is the International Institute for Strategic Studies annual assessment of the military capabilities and defense economics of 1...