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  • Conventional Maritime Deterrence

    The Operational Foundations of Influence at Sea

    by Adam Lockyer ...
    A conceptual framework for understanding the critical role of naval operations in deterrence strategiesA future clash between the United States and China would occur across the seas, islands, and peninsulas of the Indo-Pacific region. Thus, mastering maritime deterrence—creating and displaying naval power to discourage an attack—is vital for peace.Conventional Maritime Deterrence revives and ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • Geopolitics, Military Modernisation and the Future of the Indo-Pacific

    by Bates Gill, Adam Lockyer, Yves-Heng Lim, Andrew T. H. Tan ...
    Series series Emerging Technologies, Ethics and International Affairs
    This book examines to what extent geopolitics explains the current wave of force modernisation in the Indo-Pacific region. Examining the leading Indo-Pacific nations in terms of defence spending: the United States, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, Pakistan, Indonesia and Thailand, geopolitical principles are used to create hypotheses that can be tested against the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Australia's Defence Strategy

    Evaluating Alternatives for a Contested Asia

    by Adam Lockyer ...
    How would we know a good defence strategy if we saw one? The Asian Century is challenging many of the traditional assumptions at the heart of Australian defence policy and strategy. Defence scholars have risen to the challenge of these transformational times and have collectively produced a smorgasbord of alternatives for policy-makers. The problem is that these recommendations all point in very ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Foreign Intervention, Warfare and Civil Wars

    External Assistance and Belligerents' Choice of Strategy

    by Adam Lockyer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Civil Wars and Intra-State Conflict
    This book examines the impact of foreign intervention in the course and nature of warfare in civil wars.Throughout history, foreign intervention in civil wars has been the rule rather than the exception. The involvement of outside powers can have a dramatic impact on the course and nature of internal conflicts. Despite this, there has been little research which has sought to explain how foreign ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Defending the Lion City

    The armed forces of Singapore

    by Tim Huxley ...
    Series series THE ARMED FORCES OF ASIA
    Singapore is located in the heart of the Muslim Malay world, yet 78 per cent of its population is ethnically Chinese. The prosperous city-state relies on outside sources for virtually all its water and food; it has no access to the high seas, on which it depends for 85 per cent of its trade, except through its neighbours' waters. Physically linked to Malaysia by a causeway and a bridge, only ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Echidna Strategy

    Australia's Search for Power and Peace

    by Sam Roggeveen ...
    In the wake of a shift in the global power balance, how can Australia best protect itself?The Echidna Strategy overturns the conventional wisdom about Australia's security. Australia will need to defend itself without American help, but this doesn't need to cost more.The truth, which no Australian political leader is willing to confront, is that America's security is not threatened by China's rise ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Direction of War

    Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective

    by Hew Strachan ...
    The wars since 9/11, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated frustration and an increasing sense of failure in the West. Much of the blame has been attributed to poor strategy. In both the United States and the United Kingdom, public enquiries and defence think tanks have detected a lack of consistent direction, of effective communication, and of governmental coordination. In this important ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Future War and the Defence of Europe

    by John R. Allen, Frederick Ben Hodges, Julian Lindley-French ...
    Future War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will inevitably accelerate some key global dynamics already in play, the book goes on to weave history, strategy, policy, and technology into a ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • The Big Fix

    Rebuilding Australia's National Security

    by Albert Palazzo ...
    The character of war is constantly changing, and so too must the approach to national security. But Australia’s defence policy is broken. Successive governments have not approached the nation’s security with the intelligence, resoluteness and seriousness it requires.After more than 120 years of defence policy centred on dependency, the geopolitical situation demands new thinking by politicians and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats

    Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Making of Foreign Policy

    Edited by Patrice Dutil ...
    Series series The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History
    Foreign policy is a tricky business. Typically, challenges and proposed solutions are perceived as disparate unless a leader can amass enough support for an idea that creates alignment. And because the prime minister is typically the one proposing that idea, Canadian foreign policy can be analyzed through the actions of these leaders.Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats explores how prime ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of War

    Edited by Julian Lindley-French, Yves Boyer ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first century. With over forty senior authors from academia, government and the armed forces world-wide the Handbook explores the history, theory, ethics and practice of war. The Handbook first considers the fundamental causes of war, before reflecting on the moral and legal aspects of war. Theories on the practice of war ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Seapower

    A Guide for the Twenty-First Century

    by Geoffrey Till ...
    Series series Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
    This is the 5th, revised and updated, edition of Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century.The sea has always provided the basis for mankind's prosperity and security. With the emergence of an increasingly globalised world trading system in the early part of the 21st century, this became ever more obvious. Contemporary conditions have therefore required navies to adapt and to expand the range ... Read more

    $68.99 USD