Weapons & Equipment

A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagonthe Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit Xwhose mission is to bring Silicon Valle...

Challenging nuclearism explores how a deliberate normalisation of nuclear weapons has been constructed, why it has prevailed in international polit...

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

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...

The young dictator comes under close scrutiny in this intelligent account Sunday Times When Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea in 2011, ...

This edited volume brings together an international group of scholars to address the lives, roles, myths, mythology, and lived experiences of Vikin...

Did you know that the uranium used to bomb the citizens of Hiroshima was mined at a forbidden site known as the money place by First Nation people ...

Battleships and Carriers features 300 of the most significant capital ships to have sailed the seas since the age of sail. These include such famou...

Submarines features 300 of the most significant submarines from the first submersibles in 1776 to the present day. Each featured submarine is illus...

Archery in Medieval England is an account of how archery developed amongst ordinary people in England and Wales after the Norman Conquest. In the 3...

US President Harry Truman evidently understood the terrifying power of atomic weaponry, but no one could have realised its full potential when he o...

Morris R. Driels has published three editions of his textbook Weaponeering, which primarily serve civilians working in an R&D capacity for Depa...

How and why China has pursued information-age weapons to gain leverage against its adversariesHow can states use military force to achieve their po...

How and why China has pursued information-age weapons to gain leverage against its adversariesHow can states use military force to achieve their po...

Only two years after Sputnik, weapons were created for attacking spacecraft. These were based on land. But now there is talk of weapons in space-in...

Heavy water (deuterium oxide) played a sinister role in the race for nuclear energy during the World War II. It was a key factor in Germany's bid t...

Technological innovations are key causal agents of surprise and disruption. In the recent past, the United States military has encountered unexpect...

The mission of the United States Army is to fight and win our nation's wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range of ...

The rapid proliferation and growing sophistication of aerospace weapons--rockets, missiles, and drones--have altered the landscape of warfare. The ...

With cyber security law being increasingly contentious, organisations require expert assistance to operationalise matters and uphold a necessarily ...

This book constitutes selected papers from the Second International Conference on Cyber Warfare, Security and Space Research, SpacSec 2024, held in...

Like shifting sands of a desert, the global nuclear landscape changes every few years across its three main constituents - nuclear energy, non-prol...

While the military use of drones has been the subject of much scrutiny, the use of drones for humanitarian purposes has so far received little atte...

Significant advances have been made in animal model development for biological research since the publication of the first edition of this volume, ...