Warfare & Defence

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

This book provides a systematic analysis of the current state and future trajectory of security cooperation in the worlds most economically dynamic...

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 ...

The Indian Ocean is of tremendous geo-political and strategic relevance. More than eighty per cent of global seaborne trade in oil passes through t...

Is violent conflict inevitable? What is it in our social nature that makes us conduct wars, genocides and persecutions? The answer lies in how we a...

This book brings together leading counterterrorism experts, from academia and practice, to form an interdisciplinary assessment of the terrorist th...

Across diverse countries and contexts in Africa, religion has direct implications for human security. While some individuals and groups seek to man...

Japans U.S.imposed postwar constitution renounced the use of offensive military force, but, as Sheila Smith shows, a nuclear North Korea and an inc...

At no time since the end of the Cold War has interest been higher in Russian security issues and the role played in this by the modernization of Ru...

Postmodern global terrorist groups engage sovereign nations asymmetrically with prolonged, sustained campaigns driven by ideology. Increasingly, tr...

This edited volume examines deterrence and the defense efforts of European states neighboring Russia, following the Crimean intervention.Deterrence...

This book offers a critical analysis, both theoretical and practical, of ethics education in the military. In the twenty-first century, it has beco...

This book examines the self-representation and identity politics of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs).PMSCs have become increasingly ...

The Military Balance 2013 is the annual assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of 171 countries world-wide. New features of ...

An analysis of U.S. Special Operations, at the center of Americas twenty-first-century wars  Grey Wars is for anyone who wants to understand todays...

Consent to the obliteration of Gaza has created an enormous gulf in the global moral order. History will record how Western governments and large s...

Welcome to the Drone Age. Where self-defense has become naked aggression. Where courage has become cowardice. Where black ops have become standard ...

The American legal profession and judicial system bear a unique responsibility to set and maintain the balance between defending homeland security ...

Technological innovations are key causal agents of surprise and disruption. In the recent past, the United States military has encountered unexpect...

The mission of the United States Army is to fight and win our nation's wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range of ...

The violent use of armed, unmanned aircraft ('drones') is increasing worldwide, but uncertainty persists about the moral status of remote-control k...

More than 2 decades have passed since the 1990-1991 conflict in the Persian Gulf. During the intervening years, many Gulf War veterans have experie...

Aligning the Governance Structure of the NNSA Laboratories to Meet 21st Century National Security Challenges is an independent assessment regarding...

Since the early 1960s, the U.S. strategic nuclear posture has been composed of a triad of nuclear-certified long-range bombers, intercontinental ba...