Warfare & Defence

Timothy W. Crawford's The Power to Divide examines the use of wedge strategies, a form of divisive statecraft designed to isolate adversaries from ...

Amphibious operations have always been an important element of warfare, but they reached their climax during the Second World War when they were ca...

The period covered in this book saw the Roman Republic face its greatest military challenges. In 264 the Romans were pitted against the might of Ca...

This book explores the question of how the United States should respond to China''s military modernization effort, including its naval modernisatio...

In Service is the tale of one person's journey into manhood, ultimately finding himself in the theatre of war. It is a journey littered with colour...

Potential sales of billions of dollars of energy equipment produced by U.S. companies are at stake in the major economies of the region. They are e...

This book provides a juridical, sociopolitical history of the evolution of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Over one million citizens were massacred in l...

On 18 June 1855, the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, British assault troops moved out of their trenches before Sebastopol in the Crimea...

Early on Sunday, 7 December 1941, Japanese carrier-borne aircraft launched a surprise attack against the US Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor. It...

Sixty-three animals have won the Dicken Medal, the highest award for animal bravery. Their inspiring stories are told, for the first time in one bo...

Issues of the war that have provoked public controversy and legal debate over the last two years--the Cambodian invasion of May-June 1970, the disc...

Bomber Command is a richly illustrated account of the Royal Air Force organisation from its inception prior to the Second World War in 1936 to its ...

Sailing Upwind is more than just another memoir of a distinguished former naval officers highly diverse career. This book by Admiral James Sandy Wi...

Professor Knorr examines bends in the values which nations derive in their international relationships from the possession and use of both nuclear ...

In August 48 BC, following the earlier battle at Dyrrhachium, the two greatest Roman commanders of their generation met in battle again at Pharsalu...