Warfare & Defence

Increasing violence perpetrated by drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) and other criminal groups is threatening citizen security in Mexico. Mexic...

The Department of Defense (DOD) depends on rare earths that contain one or more of 17 similar metals which have unique properties, such as magnetis...

Do countries fight wars for oil? Given the resource's exceptional military and economic importance, most people assume that states will do anything...

Black Gold and Blackmail seeks to explain why great powers adopt such different strategies to protect their oil access from politically motivated d...

Reveals the true nature of relations between the US and the UK during the Carter presidencyRobb Thomas draws upon a wealth of previously classified...

A stranger calls at a London house sometime after World War Two and tells an intriguing tale of ancestral execution, betrayal and lost titles. This...

Behind every soldiers death lies a story, a tale not just of the cold mathematics of the battlefield but of an individual human being who gave his ...

The U.S. military maintains a significant presence across the Arabian Peninsula but it must now confront a new and emerging dynamic as most Gulf Co...

Union General Philip Kearny began his career as a lieutenant with the 1st U.S. Dragoons. He studied cavalry tactics in France and fought with th...

The liberal world order, a euphemism for American global hegemony, is crumbling at an accelerating pace. While its collapse is tangible, the outcom...

The Hardys as farmers and brewers, their workforce and their wider circle were constantly on the move: itinerancy was a way of life. Roads, waterwa...

The U.S. Marine Corps' Combined Action Program (CAP) in Vietnam was an enlightened gesture of strategic dissent. Recognizing that search-and-des...

Empires have fallen, and the land is broken. The great oathmarks that once stood as testaments to the allegiances and might of nations have crumble...

By examining two military interventions that have defined the post-Cold War period, Somalia (1992-1995) and Afghanistan (2001-2014), this book argu...

Boxing might not have survived the 1930s if not for Max Baer. A contender for every heavyweight championship 1932-1941, California's Glamour Boy b...

China's information war against the United States is clever technically, broadly applied and successful. The intelligence community in the U.S. ...

Congress has long sought through legislation and oversight to protect the United States against terrorist threats, especially from chemical, biolog...

CJ Hinke was arrested in more than 35 civil disobedience actions organized by the pacifist movement from 1963 to 1969.  He was the last American ar...

A new collection of Bill Ehrhart's essays--25 of them, written between 2002 and 2012 on subjects ranging from the Vietnam War failures of Americ...

The vast majority of soldiers and sailors fighting in World War II did not engage the enemy directly. Indeed, for every infantryman actually fighti...

Praise for the previous edition: ...well written, well researched, and useful...--Booklist

Among the finer soldier-diarists of the Civil War, John Edward Dooley first came to the attention of readers when an edition of his wartime journal...

Revealing the mind-set of a soldier seared by the horrors of combat even as he kept faith in his cause, Last to Leave the Field showcases the priv...

In December 1846, John Jacob Oswandelor Jake as he was often calledenlisted in the Monroe Guards, which later became Company C of the First Pennsyl...