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  • Beyond Ukraine

    Debating the Future of War

    by Christopher Coker ...
    War in the 21st century will remain a chameleon that takes on different forms and guises. This book offers the first comprehensive update and revision of ideas about the future of war since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. It argues that the war has fundamentally shifted our perspective on the nature and character of future war, but also cautions against marginalizing many other parallel trends, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Defence Planning for Small and Middle Powers

    Rethinking Force Development in an Age of Disruption

    Edited by Tim Sweijs, Saskia van Genugten, Frans Osinga ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Defence Studies
    This book examines the processes, practices and principles of defence planning in small and middle powers.Small and middle powers are recalibrating their force postures in this age of disruption. They are adapting their defence planning and military innovation processes to protect the security of their nations. The purpose of this book is to explore defence planning and military innovation in 11 ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Use and Utility of Ultimata in Coercive Diplomacy

    by Tim Sweijs ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Ultimata feature as a core concept in the coercive diplomacy scholarship. Conventional wisdom holds that pursuing an ultimatum strategy is risky. This book shows that the conventional wisdom is wrong on the basis of a new dataset of 87 ultimata issued from 1920–2020. It provides a historical examination of ultimata in Western strategic, political, and legal thought since antiquity until the ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • The Conduct of War in the 21st Century

    Kinetic, Connected and Synthetic

    Edited by Rob Johnson, Martijn Kitzen, Tim Sweijs ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Defence Studies
    This book examines the key dimensions of 21st century war, and shows that orthodox thinking about war, particularly what it is and how it is fought, needs to be updated.Accelerating societal, economic, political and technological change affects how we prepare, equip and organise for war, as well as how we conduct war – both in its low-tech and high-tech forms, and whether it is with high intensity ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2020

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

    Edited by Frans Osinga, Tim Sweijs ...
    Series series NL ARMS
    This open access volume surveys the state of the field to examine whether a fifth wave of deterrence theory is emerging. Bringing together insights from world-leading experts from three continents, the volume identifies the most pressing strategic challenges, frames theoretical concepts, and describes new strategies.The use and utility of deterrence in today’s strategic environment is a topic of ... Read more

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    Warfare, Civilians and Humanitarians in the Twenty-First Century

    by Hugo Slim ...
    Warfare is at a tipping point today as it passes from the age of industrial warfare to a new era of computerized warfare and a renewed risk of "big war" between global powers. Humanitarian response is also developing fast as "big aid" demands more and more money and tries to digitalize and prepare for new needs in long wars and escalating climate crisis. This book starts with the founding moment ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Transformation of Strategic Affairs

    by Lawrence Freedman ...
    Series series Adelphi series
    This book analyzes the strategic implications of the shift in focus for the US Armed Forces from regular to irregular war. Lawrence Freedman closely examines the difficulty the US Armed Forces face in shifting their focus from preparing for regular wars, in which combat is separated from civil society, to irregular wars, in which combat is integrat ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Understanding Land Warfare

    by Christopher Tuck ...
    This textbook provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare. The second edition has been updated and revised, and includes new chapters on non-western perspectives and hybrid warfare.Drawing on a range of case studies spanning the First World War through to contemporary conflicts in Syria, Ukraine, and Nagorno-Karabakh, the book ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies

    Edited by David J. Galbreath, John R. Deni ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies provides a comprehensive collection of essays on contemporary defence studies by leading international scholars.Defence studies is a multi-disciplinary study of how agents, predominantly states, prepare for and go to war. Whereas security studies has been broadened and stretched to cover at times the near totality of international and domestic affairs, and ... Read more

    $70.99 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

  • War Time

    Temporality and the Decline of Western Military Power

    Edited by Sten Rynning, Olivier Schmitt, Amelie Theussen ...
    Series series Insights: Critical Thinking on International Affairs
    Perceptions of time contributed to recent Western military failingsThe decline of the West is once again a frequent topic of speculation. Often cited as one element of the alleged decline is the succession of prolonged and unsuccessful wars-most notably those waged in recent decades by the United States. This book by three Danish military experts examines not only the validity of the speculation ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Ethics Under Fire

    Challenges for the Australian Army

    Edited by Tom Frame, Albert Palazzo ...
    Events at Abu Ghraib prison and the 1968 My Lai Massacre show that the behaviour of the military can descend into barbarism. How strong is the military's commitment to avoiding such atrocities? Ethics Under Fire – a timely and compelling book – asks questions and raises issues the Australian Army can't ignore. Including chapters on social media and violence, cyberweapons, ethics in special ... Read more

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