Warfare & Defence

This book examines the evolution of airpower and specifically the growth and proliferation of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPAs). While most existing...

This book provides the first comprehensive review of the European Unions role in military conflict management beyond its borders and makes an impor...

This book examines the presence of Africa as a significant force in the western Indian Ocean. Africa will increasingly play a pivotal role in the f...

The Chronicle of a People's War: The Military and Strategic History of the Cambodian Civil War, 19791991 narrates the military and strategic histor...

This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Rwanda genocide. This volume, the product of over 20years of engagement with Rwanda and its dia...

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

This volume is the first detailed study of the emergence of regular and frequent heads of government meetings (summits), covering the period from t...

The New Deal era witnessed a surprising surge in popular engagement with the history and memory of the Civil War era. From the omnipresent book and...

Throughout history, homosexuality has been a complicating factor for men and women electing to serve in the armed forces of the United States. The ...

This volume is the first detailed study of the emergence of regular and frequent heads of government meetings (summits), covering the period from t...

This new Handbook presents an overview of cutting-edge research in the growing field of global health security. Over the past decade, the study of ...

This book examines the drivers behind great power security competition in space to determine whether realistic strategic alternatives exist to furt...

This book focuses the public debate on fundamental political problem by defining three approaches to arms control. The three approaches are (l) ext...

The book analyses the renewed importance of the North Atlantic for NATO in the face of new security challengesThis Whitehall Paper explores the ren...

This book outlines the changes in military strategy, policy, and force structure that prominent civilian and military experts in defense believe th...

This book examines a wide variety of topics, ranging from Soviet and U.S. views on conflict termination to past, present, and future U.S. military ...

This is the first comprehensive book on Military Cost-Benefit Analysis and provides novel approaches to structuring cost-benefit and affordability ...

2023 AFHF Air Power History Book Prize WinnerEmergency War Plan examines the theory and practice of American nuclear deterrence and its evolution d...

The Islamic State analyzes the transformation of ISIS (Daesh) from an underground insurgent organization to a quasi-state entity. It traces the gen...

This book proposes a theory of toleration wherein liberal democracies peacefully co-exist with non-democratic societies. It conceptualises internat...

Today, a Great Powers arsenal extends well beyond the military, embracing soft power and also currency power. The dollar dominates the global econo...

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

Among the examples of civil wars, armed secessionist movements and minority uprisings in the world today, many involve conflict between a minority ...

This title was first published in 2001. This compelling study draws insightful conclusions about US foreign policy towards Europe at a critical jun...

Security Studies: An Introduction, 4th edition, is the most comprehensive textbook available on the subject, providing students with in-depth cover...

This title was first published in 2003. This work provides a clearer understanding of the EU's approach towards security in the Mediterranean. Afte...

Written and illustrated in the trenches, this updated edition offers a rare insight into the experience of Australian soldiers on the Gallipoli Pen...

The overarching objective of this book is to analyse the manner in which statebuilding-oriented research has and can influence policies in fragile,...

At a time of great global uncertainty and instability, communities face fracturing from the increasing influence of extremist movements hostile to ...

This book critically examines the approaches to Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants programming in Africa. Drawing...

This book examines the US Navy and Marine Corps during the interwar years from a new perspective. Rather than focusing on the technologies develope...

This book makes an important contribution to police scholarship by focusing on the critical need for law enforcement personnel to receive education...

This book offers a comparative analysis of British Army Unit War Diaries in the two World Wars, to reveal the role played by previously unnoticed t...

This book examines key aspects of the Asia Pacific War (19311945), that was initially waged between Japan and China, before Japans attack on Pearl ...

This pathbreaking book uncovers the important, underappreciated role of armed opposition groups turned political parties in shaping long-term patte...

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

Since the Victoria Cross was first instituted on 29th January, 1856, the medal has been awarded 1,357 times, the most recent was gazetted on 22nd M...

Attempts to see the conflict from the perspectives of those who fought. History TodayThe Battle of Agincourt still rings down through the centurie...