Warfare & Defence

This book analyses the main events and turning points in the building of pre- and post-independent South Sudan. It covers the historical perspectiv...

Focusing on the 25 January 2011 Egyptian revolution, this book traces its affective and emotional dynamics into the local realties and everyday pol...

How can photographers, curators, and editors convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war? Providing interdisciplinary and international ...

Central Europe may be perceived as a homogeneous subunit: a geographic locale that shares similar cultural traits, common histories, and a linked t...

This volume is a timely contribution to the current debates and potential efforts to study and counter the phenomena of extreme right violence in a...

This book examines how major powers in the Indo-Pacific region cope with and respond to the potential order transition against the background of th...

This book explores SovietNorth Korean relations during the Cold War (19451991). Based on many primary documents and sources (including Russian and ...

This book examines the European Unions everyday statebuilding practices, using the case of Kosovo as an example of how it uses informal practices t...

Agency, Security and Governance of Small States examines what seems to be a defining paradox of Small-State Studies: the simultaneous coexistence (...

This book examines the growing phenomenon of armed banditry in Nigeria and its implication for national security.Nigerias banditry crisis and deepe...

The Changing Dynamics of Civil Military Relations in Pakistan offers a unique insiders perspective on the political climate in the country, present...

This book focuses on centrifugal disasters that impact a group of seemingly unconnected people congregated temporarily often by chance, unlike cent...

This book offers a detailed analysis of affective polarisation based primarily on a unique dataset created from an online panel survey in Spain. Sp...

This book shows how international trade was a key part of the classic Western policy of containment towards the Soviet Union in the Cold War in the...

The persecution of the Yezidis, a religious community originating in Upper Mesopotamia, has been ongoing since at least the 10th century. On 3 Augu...

This book improves our understanding of battlefield coalitions, providing novel theoretical and empirical insight into their nature and capabilitie...

Securing the Nations Critical Infrastructures: A Guide for the 20212025 Administration is intended to help the United States Executive administrati...

The war against ISIS is often explained through the groups own rise to power. The American side of the story has not yet been told. This book recor...

This book examines Indigenous responses to mining and their connection to peacebuilding, focusing on the experience of the Nasa Indigenous people o...

This book investigates Nigerias soft power capabilities in West Africa, demonstrating the extent to which the power of attraction may serve the cou...

The captivating account of how Clint Lorance, a soldier who became a scapegoat for a corrupt military hierarchy, was falsely charged with war crime...

This volume helps us understand the transformations of terrorist organisations, and the conflicts they are involved in, by broadening the perspecti...

The units and formations of the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) have privileged access to the finest weaponry in the worlds arsenal. Whether ...

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by I...

Sunk in a British ambush in 1708, the Spanish galleon San Jose was rumored to have one of the richest cargos ever lost at sea. Though treasure hunt...

The American war in Vietnam was concluded in 1973 under the terms of a truce that were effectively identical to what was offered to the Nixon admin...

Long overshadowed by the American Civil War, the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) has received significantly less attention from historians partly ...

The thrilling new instalment in the action-packed Bernicia Chronicles from Matthew Harffy. Warlord Beobrand travels to holy Rome... but sinister pl...

In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity for inte...

Russias invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has shown the world the critical importance of whether and how to punish heads of state, heads of government, a...

Restore your faith in love and family with one Army wife's courageous story of how she helped her husband recuperate from losing both of his legs w...

Syria's bloody civil war has plunged the cradle of the Levant into a painful spiral of violence. This spiral of violence has caused profound social...

This book offers a renewed defense of traditional just war theory and considers its application to certain contemporary cases, particularly in the ...

At the outset of World War II, Scapa Flow was supposed to be the safe home base of the British Navy nothing could penetrate the defences of this b...

Adopted in 1938 and remaining in British service until 1991, the popular and reliable Bren was an iconic light machine gun, and arguably the most r...

A ground-breaking approach to history where YOU choose the fate of WWII - perfect for readers of Bletchley Park Brainteasers and The GCHQ Puzzle Bo...

Gideon Welless 1861 appointment as secretary of the navy placed him at the hub of Union planning for the Civil War and in the midst of the powerful...

Over the last few decades, as the United States has become embroiled in foreign war after foreign war, some of the most vocal activists for peace h...

When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the Warsaw Pact was a robust military alliance. It was capable of waging a la...

When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the Warsaw Pact was a robust military alliance. It was capable of waging a la...