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  • Military Families and War in the 21st Century

    Comparative perspectives

    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book focuses on the key issues that affect military families when soldiers are deployed overseas, focusing on the support given to military personnel and families before, during and after missions.Today’s postmodern armies are expected to provide social-psychological support both to their personnel in military operations abroad and to their families at home. Since the end of the Cold War and ... Read more

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  • Military Cooperation in Multinational Peace Operations

    Managing Cultural Diversity and Crisis Response

    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This edited volume uses theoretical overviews and empirical case studies to explore both how soldiers cope with the new forms of cultural diversity occurring within various multinational military operations, and how their organizations manage them.Military organizations, like other complex organizations, are now operating in an ever more diverse environment, with the missions themselves being ever ... Read more

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    This Reader provides a structurally coherent explanation and review of the magnified role conception and organizational task expansion for the Nigerian military establishment in foreign policy. It argues essentially that one of the most problematic and intractable areas of public policy in Nigeria since the Civil War concerns the development of a professional defence establishment adequate to meet ... Read more

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  • Security in an Interconnected World

    A Strategic Vision for Defence Policy

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book follows the idea that security policy must be based on strategic analysis. Defence policy and the role of the armed forces can subsequently be determined on the grounds of said analysis. More than ever, internal and external security, and developments both in the Netherlands and abroad are interconnected. The world order is shifting, the cooperation within NATO and the EU is ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of War

    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

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  • NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2020

    Deterrence in the 21st Century—Insights from Theory and Practice

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    Private Security Companies’ Impact on Military Effectiveness

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  • The Conduct of War in the 21st Century

    Kinetic, Connected and Synthetic

    Series series Routledge Advances in Defence Studies
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