Warfare and defence Books

Histoire Du Siege D�������Orleans, 1428-1429 est un livre �����crit par Fran�����ois No�����l Alexandre Dubois en 1894. Ce livre raconte l'histoire du si�����ge d'Orl�����ans qui a eu lieu pendant la guerre de Cent Ans en France. Le si�����ge a...

""Etudes Sur L'Organisation Des Armees: Et Particulierement De L'Armee Belge"" est un livre �����crit par Alexis Henri Brialmont et publi����� en 1867. Ce livre est une �����tude sur l'organisation des arm�����es, avec un accent particulier sur...

Histoire Des Guerres De La Moscovie V1: 1601-1610 (1866) est un livre �����crit par Isaac Massa. Il s'agit d'une histoire d�����taill�����e des guerres de la Moscovie entre 1601 et 1610. Le livre couvre les conflits entre la Moscovie et la Su�����de, la...

Il libro ""Storia della Monarchia di Savoia"" scritto da Agostino Verona nel 1859, ����� una narrazione dettagliata della dinastia dei Savoia, una delle pi����� importanti famiglie nobiliari italiane. L'autore analizza la storia della monarchia di...

""Storia della Restaurazione della Repubblica di Genova l'anno 1814, sua caduta e riunione al Piemonte l'anno 1815"" ����� un libro diviso in due volumi scritti da Giuseppe Martini nel 1858. Il libro racconta la storia della Repubblica di Genova durante...

Le livre ""Le Soulevement De La Flandre Maritime De 1323-1328 (1900)"" de l'auteur Henri Pirenne est une �����tude historique sur la r�����volte de la Flandre maritime entre les ann�����es 1323 et 1328. L'auteur analyse les causes de cette r�����volte et...

Le livre ""Le Simple Bon Sens D'Un Democrate Ou Observations Sur La Guerre D'Orient (1860)"" de Du Mont, Prosper est un essai politique qui traite de la guerre d'Orient. L'auteur y expose ses observations et son point de vue en tant que d�����mocrate sur...

Le livre ""Le Si�����ge de Strasbourg Pendant la Campagne de 1870 (1872)"" de Jean B. Emile Henri Camille Malartic est une �����tude d�����taill�����e du si�����ge de Strasbourg pendant la guerre franco-prussienne de 1870. L'auteur, un officier de...

This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar's genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness.

This book contributes to the debate on the international law of post-conflict peacebuilding, and suggests a need for closer connections between practitioners and academics.

This book provides a ground-breaking assessment of the Israeli national security experience from the establishment of the country through to the present day.

Like shifting sands of a desert, the global nuclear landscape changes every few years across its three main constituents - nuclear energy, non-proliferation and disarmament. This book offers a bird's eye view on all the three.

This book examines China's domestic, economic, maritime and strategic interests as drivers for the Border and Road Initiative.

This book outlines the concept of Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) and demonstrates its relevance for understanding contemporary conflicts, from the Arab Spring to the war in Ukraine, in terms of the need to dominate the human domain.

This book sets out the big data landscape, comprising data abundance, digital connectivity and ubiquitous technology, and shows how it is impacting national security.

This book analyses when, how, why, and to what effect China has used its armed forces in recent decades to coerce other actors in the international system.

This book explains the history and development of the military design movement, featuring case studies from key modern militaries.

This book offers an original assessment of the ways in which the sociocultural code of blood revenge and its modern remnants shape irregular warfare.

This book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of how climate change is impacting conflicts, contention, and competition in the world.

Although the literature on terrorism is vast, there are many gaps in it. This book helps to fill these lacunae with entries from top terrorism scholars and counterterrorism practitioners in the world.

This edited volume focuses on civil-military relations before and during great power conflicts, and comprises historical case studies of modern supreme leadership.

Threats of force are an inherent part of communication between some States. One prominent example is the 2017-2018 crisis in relations between the United States and North Korea, marked by multiple threats issued by both sides. Yet, despite the fact that...

This book provides the historical and political context for the security interventions in Mali over the past three decades.

This edited book analyzes Kosovo's foreign policy and bilateral relations with the United States and several European countries.

This book presents the argument that solution-driven policy and treaty changes, if faithfully implemented, will rekindle the relevance of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in combatting and prosecuting atrocity crimes.

This is the first textbook of its kind to amass cases of genocide and other mass atrocities across the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries that have largely been pushed to the periphery of Genocide Studies or "forgotten" altogether.

This book attempts to provide a comprehensive understanding of the circumstances which have shaped India's approach towards its international borders and the framework it has developed to better manage its borders.

This book focuses on strategic special operations and how these have led to the achievement of major foreign policy goals, which is illustrated by six case studies.This book will be of much interest to students of special operations, military and...

This volume brings together historians, political analysts and political economists to emphasize the interconnectedness of the oceanic space through a detailed analysis of the Bay of Bengal as a space of strategic and economic significance.

　This book aims to redefine maritime diplomacy for the modern era. Maritime diplomacy encompasses a spectrum of activities, from co-operative measures such as port visits, exercises and humanitarian assistance to persuasive deployment and coercion. It is...

This book offers valuable insights into the causes and consequences of nuclear proliferation.Through the development of new datasets and the application of cutting edge research methods, contributors to this volume significantly advance the frontiers of...

Peace operations are increasingly on the front line in the international community's fight against organized crime; this book explores how, in some cases, peace operations and organized crime are clear enemies, while in others, they may become tacit...

This book examines terrorism's impact on the international aviation security regime. 

This edited book examines European external interventions in human security, in order to illustrate the evolution and nature of the European Union as a global political actor.In 2003, the EU deployed its first external mission under the European Security...

This major new Handbook provides a cutting-edge and transdisciplinary overview of the main issues, debates, state-of-the-art methods, and key concepts in peace and conflict studies today. The fields of peace and conflict studies have grown exponentially...

"Frank Wade was born in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada in October 1921. He was sent to England to train for the navy in the schoolship HMS Conway in Liverpool and the Dartmouth (Devon) Royal Navy College from 1936 to December 1940. Then in May 1941 he was...

Discover the lives of people of Grand Strand. Learn about a Nazi pilot who became an American citizen (Walter Luff); or an author in charge of the WPA Writers Project (Mabel Montgomery).Charles Joyner is a Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern...

The autobiography of Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton, a one-time cowboy, scout, Indian fighter, trail rider, and Deputy United States Marshall. At the age of 15, the post commander at Fort Gibson dubbed Eaton "Pistol Pete" when he outshot everyone at the fort...

"The Rebels of Frederick County, Maryland" describes the lives of the men from the county and Frederick City that joined the Confederate Army during the War Between the States in 300-500 words each. Their basic genealogy, military service, and post-war...

This study looks at the interpretations and effects of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and offers readings of its possible future effects.

First published in 1977, this study offers a comprehensive, systematic and integrated survey of the important relationship between navies and the making and execution of foreign policy. Ken Booth explains the functions navies can perform in both war and...

Ken Booth's study, first published in 1979, investigates the way in which cultural distortions have affected the theory and execution of strategy. Its aim is to illustrate the importance of ethnocentrism in all areas of the subject, to follow through its...

This book explores contemporary propaganda and mainstream Western news media, with reference to the Ukraine crisis.It examines Western media narratives of the immediate causes of the crisis, the respective roles of those who participated in or otherwise...

NICK HUN gives his account of what it was like to serve in combat as an officer with the 5th Special Forces, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, and as a pilot with the 190th Assault Helicopter Company, flying "guns" over the same ground he fought upon wearing a...

A concept of warfare is only a module to simulate a possible eventuality or expected scenario that might occur in the battlefield and battlefront. This is to say that experts understand the risks of real battles and the challenges that might arise...

This volumes re-examines the notion of the East Asian peace, arguing that it requires updating for the current and near-future context of US-Chinese rivalry.

The book develops a robust and holistic theoretical understanding of the intrinsic security concerns which lie at the heart of the protracted conflict in Cyprus.

This book explains how facilitative mediators, those without material leverage, contribute to progress in peace negotiations.