Warfare & Defence

This edited volume explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming international conflict in cyberspace.Over the past three decades, cybe...

This book examines the origins of the US Navys 2007 Maritime Strategy, the formation of the US governments Pivot to Asia strategy, and the most rec...

This book argues that river basins represent a particular structural setting in international relations with the potential for generating a dynamic...

Sermones Contra Hereticos presents an edition and translation of a group of mostly unpublished Latin sermons which were originally preached in the ...

Illustrated with original artwork and archive photos, this is the history of Germany's extensive use of captured tanks in World War II. In this bo...

The United States has been at war for more than a decade. Yet as war has become normalized, a yawning gap has opened between America's soldiers and...

Yet it is Webb's distinguished second career as a lead instructor for the shadowy sniper cell and Course Manager of the Navy SEAL Sniper Program th...

In 2020, feminist scholars and activists celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations' Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, a land...

The rapid proliferation and growing sophistication of aerospace weapons--rockets, missiles, and drones--have altered the landscape of warfare. The ...

'This is the account we've been starved of: an insight into Ukraine from an authoritative British writer who has skin in the countrys game. Odesa i...

This book examines key issue areas of Indo-Pacific strategies such as cyber security, space security, maritime security, emerging technologies, and...

Winner of the PEN OaklandJosephine Miles AwardA stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women.David W. Blight, author of Frederick ...

With cyber security law being increasingly contentious, organisations require expert assistance to operationalise matters and uphold a necessarily ...

On the night of 19/20 September 1944, a force of 227 Avro Lancasters and ten de Havilland Mosquitoes was despatched to attack the German towns of M...

This is the most comprehensive study yet in the English language of the German Imperial Navy's battlecruisers that served in the First World War. K...

This book constitutes selected papers from the Second International Conference on Cyber Warfare, Security and Space Research, SpacSec 2024, held in...

The book deals with the urgent need for the EU to position itself globally in the wake of Brexit, a rapidly worsening climate crisis, the COVID-19 ...

This book revisits and reframes the old, but active, debate on the relationship between criminality and civil war by bringing both the state and po...

Routledge Readings on Security and Governance in Northeastern India: Resource Conflicts, Militarisation and Development Challenges presents some of...

To the fifteen passengers and crew onboard the lumbering Short Sunderland flying boat, everything appeared normal and routine as it lifted off from...

Drawing from a diverse range of military, policing, academic and policymakers experiences, this book seeks to provide solutions of how national mil...

Philosophers have wrestled over the morality and ethics of war for nearly as long as human beings have been waging it. The death and destruction th...

This volume presents and interrogates both theoretical and artistic expressions of the revolutionary, militant spirit associated with 1968 and the ...

In recent years, the term sectarianism has been widely used to explain contemporary affairs across the Middle East and North Africa. A range of ass...

In historical writing the interwar years are often associated with the rise of extreme forms of nationalism. Yet paradoxically this period also saw...

The regular Mounted Infantry was one of the most important innovations of the late Victorian and Edwardian British Army. Rather than fight on horse...

This book analyzes the factors that drive Boko Harams violence, arguing that the movement is rooted in the historical and religious context of west...

This book is a comparative study of military operations conducted my modern states between the French Revolution and World War I. It examines the c...

While the military use of drones has been the subject of much scrutiny, the use of drones for humanitarian purposes has so far received little atte...

Far from being an anachronism, much less a kit-bag of techniques, peoples war raises what has always been present in military history, irregular wa...

Security and Conflict in East Asia provides a timely and thorough analysis of the sources and implications of conflict on the Korean peninsula, Chi...

Stalking The Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarin...

This title was first published in 2002. Policy-makers in South Asia, the Middle East and the Asian Pacific, decision-makers in the OECD countries, ...

Indian Ocean studies, which once lagged behind studies of the Atlantic and the Pacific, is an important emerging academic field which has come into...

This volume discusses the entry of Greece and Turkey to NATO in 1952 from the perspective of history and international relations. The chapters were...

The European Union has increasingly taken on a role as international security provider that extends beyond the geographical scope of its membership...

This book explores the role played by civilians in shaping the outcomes of military combat across time and place. This volume explores the contribu...

The Western Balkans have seen rapid changes since the end of the violent conflicts in the 1990s. The EU has been one of the main drivers for change...

This book integrates peace operations into the paradigm first articulated in Uncomfortable Wars, edited by Max Manwaring. It not only addresses soc...

Significant advances have been made in animal model development for biological research since the publication of the first edition of this volume, ...

This anthology discusses the war system and provides a rigorous social science approach that is sensitive to values. It premises the etiology of wa...

Urban centres are at the heart of the dynamics of war and peace, of stability and violence: as safe havens for those seeking protection, as concent...