Warfare & Defence

This fully illustrated study explores the formidable Athenian army, rivalled only by the Spartan army in terms of battlefield prowess and influence...

Fully illustrated, this book pits US Navy submarines against the aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the height of World War II. B...

A new study of how the first purpose-built anti-tank helicopter gunship the Bell AH-1 Cobra engaged communist armor and well-armed irregular figh...

A detailed account of the war-winning role that a handful of Harrier squadrons played in the Falklands War. On 5 April 1982, the British aircraft...

A detailed exploration of a critical month-long battle, which set the stage for German strategic-level defeats on both the Eastern and Western fron...

Fully revised, this third edition of Newly Commissioned Naval Officers Guide continues to be an essential resource for all of those at the pivotal ...

Special Operations Success establishes a new benchmark in military theory in this deeply analytic and innovative work. It answers several pressing ...

At the end of July, Operation 'Cobra' broke through the German defences and the American leaders rushed through Coutances and Avranches, and took t...

In Strong Commanders, Weak States, Philip A. Martin investigates a fundamental political challenge faced by post-conflict states: how to create obe...

At the End of the World There Is a Pond is a book about aftermaths. Each poem comes in the wake of a deep rupturethe ruptures of mental illness and...

Volume II of The Cambridge History of Strategy focuses on the practice of strategy from 1800 to the present day. A team of leading scholars examine...

Volume I of The Cambridge History of Strategy offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of recorded history, to the late eigh...

Martial Arts are literally The Arts of Mars, the Roman god of war. For over two and a half millennia, the combat arts of Europe served the hoplite,...