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  • Russia's War in Ukraine and Modern Warfare

    Strategy, Tactics, and Technology

    by Mikael Weissmann, Niklas Nilsson ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Russia's war in Ukraine represents a watershed moment in the evolution of modern warfare, challenging long-held assumptions about how wars are fought, sustained, perceived, and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Advanced Land Warfare

    Tactics and Operations

    Edited by Mikael Weissmann, Niklas Nilsson ...
    International politics have become ever more volatile over the last decade, increasing the risk of large-scale military violence. Yet the precise character of future war will depend on a range of factors that relate to adversaries, allies, technology, geographical scope and multiple domains of warfighting. Few would question that land forces will be important also in the foreseeable future. ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

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    by David Jordan, James D. Kiras, David J. Lonsdale, Ian Speller, Christopher Tuck, C. Dale Walton ...
    Understanding Modern Warfare has established itself as the leading introduction to the issues, ideas, concepts and context necessary to understand the theory and conduct of warfare in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is an invaluable text for military professionals and students of military history. Key features include: incisive coverage of the debates surrounding contemporary and ... Read more

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  • Casting Light on the Shadows

    Canadian Perspectives on Special Operations Forces

    Edited by Colonel Bernd Horn, Tony Balasevicius ...
    Special Operations Forces (SOF) have never been an integral element of Canada's military capability. Although units have existed periodically throughout the country's history, they have always been in the shadows. However, the terrorist attack in the United States on September 11, 2001, changed that. In the aftermath of 9/11, SOF became the force of choice. Casting Light on the Shadows consists of ... Read more

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  • How to Fight a War

    by Mike Martin ...
    Has any war in history gone according to plan? Monarchs, dictators and elected leaders alike have a dismal record on military decision-making, from over-ambitious goals to disregarding intelligence, terrain, or enemy capabilities. This not only wastes the lives of civilians, the enemy and one's own soldiers, but also fails to achieve geopolitical objectives, and usually lays the seeds for more ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Military Misfortunes

    The Anatomy of Failure in War

    by Eliot A. Cohen ...
    Why do competent armies fail? Eliot Cohen and John Gooch explore answers to this question throughout this extensive analysis of unsuccessful military operations.Since it was first published in 1990, Military Misfortunes has become the classic analysis of the unexpected catastrophes that befall competent militaries. Now with a new Afterword discussing America's missteps in Iraq, Somalia, and the ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Strategic Studies

    A Reader

    Edited by Thomas Mahnken, Joseph Maiolo ...
    The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section.The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest scholarship. The aim is to provide students with a wide-ranging survey of the key ... Read more

    $106.99 USD

  • War and Technology

    by Jeremy Black ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    "[A] scholarly overview of military technology throughout history—starting roughly in the 15th century and extending into the future . . . insightful."— Publishers WeeklyIn this engaging book, Jeremy Black argues that technology neither acts as an independent variable nor operates without major limitations. This includes its capacity to obtain end results, as technology's impact is far from simple ... Read more

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  • The Diffusion of Military Power

    Causes and Consequences for International Politics

    by Michael C. Horowitz ...
    The Diffusion of Military Power examines how the financial and organizational challenges of adopting new methods of fighting wars can influence the international balance of power. Michael Horowitz argues that a state or actor wishing to adopt a military innovation must possess both the financial resources to buy or build the technology and the internal organizational capacity to accommodate any ... Read more

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  • Transforming Command

    The Pursuit of Mission Command in the U.S., British, and Israeli Armies

    by Eitan Shamir ...
    On today's complex, fragmented, fast-moving battlefield, where combatants adapt constantly to exploit one-another's weaknesses, there is a demonstrable requirement for military commanders to devolve a high level of autonomy of decision-making and action to leaders on the ground. An effective model for doing this has existed for some time in the form of mission command and has been utilized by the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • On Operations

    Operational Art and Military Disciplines

    by Brett Friedman ...
    On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines traces the history of the development of military staffs and ideas on the operational level of war and operational art from the Napoleonic Wars to today, viewing them through the lens of Prussia/Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States. B. A. Friedman concludes that the operational level of war should be rejected as fundamentally ... Read more

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