Warfare & Defence

A whole generation has grown up in Afghanistan knowing little but the ravages of war. The dramatic overthrow of the Taliban regime in 2001 was sim...

Victor Israelyan was a senior ambassador in the Soviet Foreign Ministry when the armies of Egypt and Syria invaded Israeli-occupied territory on Oc...

Lieutenant-Colonel (Retd) Diane Allen had 30 years' experience in the British Army. She was one of the first women at Sandhurst. Sandhurst was so ...

This is the compelling story of West Belfast's involvement fighting on the Western Front throughout the First World War. This is the story of men f...

The book examines Bernard Brodie's strategic and philosophical response to the nuclear age, embedding his work within the classical theories of Car...

By utilising the latest research, readers will be given a complete picture of the way Britain fought the Cold War, moving the focus away from the n...

Terrorism, radicalization and violent extremism dominate sociological, political and cultural concerns in today’s polarized social and political wo...

Spaces of War, War of Spaces provides a rich, international and multi-disciplinary engagement with the convergence of war and media through the con...

A concise, illustrated guide to these Second World War defences scattered across the British landscape. With invasion a very real threat, in 1940...

News media, movies, blogs and video games issue constant invitations to picture war, experience the thrill of combat, and revisit battles past. War...