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224 produkter
Strategy Before Clausewitz
Linking Warfare and Statecraft, 1400-1830
Häftad, 2017
731 kr
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This collection of essays combines historical research with cutting-edge strategic analysis and makes a significant contribution to the study of the early history of strategic thinking.There is a debate as to whether strategy in its modern definition existed before Napoleon and Clausewitz. The case …
Proxy War in Yemen
Av Bernd Kaussler, Keith A. Grant
Häftad, 2024
339 kr
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This book analyzes the civil war in Yemen and how intervening external actors have shaped the trajectory of the conflict.The work examines the conflict in Yemen as a testing ground for expectations about the autonomy and control of proxies by external patrons and the direct consequences for …
Non-state Special Operations
Capabilities and Effects
Inbunden, 2025
2525 kr
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This book examines how violent non-state actors (VNSAs) emulate and develop military special operation capabilities.Building on previous research on Islamic State special operations, the book develops a theoretical framework surrounding a typology of VNSA (militants, proxies, criminal/cults, and …
Sociopolitical Sciences and International Military Affairs
The Tunnel of War and Peace
Häftad, 2025
651 kr
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This book examines the connection between sociology and international military affairs by analysing the work of key social and political scientists in the field.The book demonstrates the renewed relevance of older sociological concepts such as imitation, unanticipated consequences of policies, …
Civil-Military Interaction during Disaster Response
A New Model
Häftad, 2026
707 kr
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This book presents a model to help enhance civil-military interaction in disaster response settings for the benefit of affected communities and the host nation.Militaries are increasingly deploying to assist, or are present, in areas impacted by natural hazards. Drawing on the author’s own …
Special Operations and National Security
Policies, Strategies, and Tactics
Av Ben Gans
Häftad, 2026
710 kr
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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.The study specifically focuses on the alignment of the policies, strategies, and tactics that dominated these operations, providing a …
Counterinsurgency, Military Occupations, and Civilian Targeting
Explaining Indiscriminate Violence in Expeditionary Campaigns
Inbunden, 2026
2525 kr
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This book addresses the causes of civilian targeting during counterinsurgency campaigns in occupied territories.It develops a new theoretical framework explaining the level of civilian victimization in expeditionary counterinsurgency as an outcome influenced by state leaders’ perceptions of threats …
Air War in Ukraine
The First Year of Conflict
Av Dag Henriksen, Justin Bronk
Häftad, 2025
669 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive account of the use of airpower in the first year of the Ukraine conflict.Airpower has been central to political, military, and public debates from the outset of the Russo‑Ukrainian war. After having started with whether the US and NATO should attempt to establish …
Evolution of the US Air Force
Organizational Culture and Preparedness for War
Av Israel Guy
Häftad, 2026
731 kr
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This book looks at the history of the US Air Force through the lens of its (lack of) preparedness for major wars, which is shown to be a result of its organizational culture.The U.S. Air Force is probably the most powerful military force in history, both in its destructive firepower and in its …
Military Strategy in an Era of Unipolar Demise
Exploring Strategic Diversity among Nations
Av Håkan Edström, Jacob Westberg
Häftad, 2026
710 kr
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This book presents a systematic comparison of the military strategies pursued by five great powers, eight major middle powers and eight middle powers during the early twenty-first century.In addition to mapping the strategic priorities of these states, the study develops and applies a theoretical …
Russian Military Interventions after the Cold War
Evaluating the Russian Federation's Wars
Av Marek Madej, Andrzej Szeptycki
Inbunden, 2026
2525 kr
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This book examines the Russian Federation’s military interventions in the post-Cold War era. The work connects key events – the Chechen and Georgian Wars, the annexation of Crimea, the Syrian intervention, and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine – in a coherent narrative, showing how these conflicts …
Just War Theory and Likelihood of Success
Prudential Judgement, Geopolitics and Just Statecraft
Av Eric Patterson, Robert J. Joustra
Inbunden, 2025
2525 kr
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This book analyzes the concept of likelihood of success in just war thinking and argues that if the concept should be retained, it must be reconsidered within the overall whole of the tradition of just war.The concept of likelihood of success has stood out as particularly troublesome to thinkers …
Military Professional Practices
Material Arrangements, Social Structure, and Culture
Inbunden, 2026
2525 kr
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This book analyzes military professional practices with respect to differences in their social structure, material embedding, and cultural patterns.The volume offers a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the military institutional and organizational landscape, highlighting variation, …
Military Policing in Advanced Democracies
Italy in Comparative Perspective
Inbunden, 2026
2525 kr
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This book investigates when and why governments in advanced democracies deploy armed forces for domestic security. It develops a theoretical framework conceptualising military policing as a policy instrument and identifies circumstances that lead governing parties to choose military over police for …
Military Exercises and Threat Perception in Europe
NATO, Russia, and the Politics of War Games, 1975–2018
Inbunden, 2026
2525 kr
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This book explores the politics of military exercises in Europe between 1975 and 2018, revealing how NATO, the Soviet Union, and Russia have used exercises as political tools and how these activities shaped and reflected their perception of the threat environment. Drawing on extensive archival …
Advancing Military Practice through Military Humanities
Av Anne Marie Hagen, Kjetil Enstad
Inbunden, 2026
2600 kr
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This book introduces military humanities (MILHUM) as a new field of inquiry to demonstrate the utility of the humanities for a critical understanding of the military and its practices, and as a tool for developing these practices.Modelled on the medical humanities, MILHUM aims to play an analogous …
Qualitative Methods in Military Studies
Research Experiences and Challenges
Av Helena Carreiras, Celso Castro
Häftad, 2014
915 kr
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This book examines the methodology of qualitative research in military studies. Since the end of the Cold War, the number of studies on military and society has grown substantially in substance, size and impact. However, only a tiny part of this bibliography deals in depth with the research methods …
European Military Culture and Security Governance
Soldiers, Scholars and National Defence Universities
Av Tamir Libel
Häftad, 2018
754 kr
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This book offers the first systematic, comparative analysis of military education and training in Europe within the context of the post-Cold War security environment. Based on an analysis of military education institutions in the UK, Germany, Finland, Romania and the Baltic States, this book …
Politics of Military Families
State, Work Organizations, and the Rise of the Negotiation Household
Av René Moelker, Manon Andres m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2144 kr
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This book examines the politics of military families in relation to the tensions between the state, military organization, and private life.It elaborates on the tensions between the advent of challenging worldwide deployment for the military and the prominence of the home front. The volume aims to …
Defence Diplomacy
Strategic Engagement and Interstate Conflict
Inbunden, 2020
2208 kr
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This book analyzes examples of strategic engagement in order to identify the factors which contribute to the success or failure of defence diplomacy in preventing interstate conflict.For more than a century, nations have engaged in defence diplomacy to cultivate mutual understanding and mitigate …
Management and Military Studies
Classical and Current Foundations
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book connects findings and insights authored by famous scholars in management and organization studies with challenges the military is facing today.One assumes that management and organization studies is only about the rational, predictable, and manageable, and that military action is …
Management and Military Studies
Classical and Current Foundations
Häftad, 2020
651 kr
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This book connects findings and insights authored by famous scholars in management and organization studies with challenges the military is facing today.One assumes that management and organization studies is only about the rational, predictable, and manageable, and that military action is …
Organisational Learning and the Modern Army
A New Model for Lessons-Learned Processes
Av Tom Dyson
Inbunden, 2019
2600 kr
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Drawing upon extensive original research, this book explores best practice in army lessons-learned processes.Without the correct learning mechanisms, military adaptation can be blocked, or the wider lessons from adaptation can easily be lost, leading to the need to relearn lessons in the field, …
Global History of Pre-Modern Warfare
Before the Rise of the West, 10,000 BCE–1500 CE
Av Kaushik Roy
Inbunden, 2021
2600 kr
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This book examines the military histories of the regions beyond Western Europe in the pre-modern era.Existing works on global military history mainly focus on the western part of Eurasia after 1500 CE. As regards the ancient period, such works concentrate exclusively on Greece and Rome. So, …
Global History of Pre-Modern Warfare
Before the Rise of the West, 10,000 BCE–1500 CE
Av Kaushik Roy
Häftad, 2021
655 kr
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This book examines the military histories of the regions beyond Western Europe in the pre-modern era.Existing works on global military history mainly focus on the western part of Eurasia after 1500 CE. As regards the ancient period, such works concentrate exclusively on Greece and Rome. So, …
Civil-Military Relations in International Interventions
A New Analytical Framework
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book examines military and civilian actors in international interventions and offers a new analytical framework to apply on such interventions.While it is frequently claimed that success in international interventions hinges largely on military–civilian coherence, cooperation has proven …
Military Mission Formations and Hybrid Wars
New Sociological Perspectives
Av Thomas Vladimir Brønd, Uzi Ben-Shalom m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This volume explores and develops new social-scientific tools for the analysis and understanding of contemporary military missions in theatre.Despite the advent of new types of armed conflict, the social-scientific study of militaries in action continues to focus on tools developed in the hey-day …
Understanding Insurgent Resilience
Organizational Structures and the Implications for Counterinsurgency
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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This book examines terrorist and insurgent organisations and seeks to understand how such groups persist for so long, while introducing a new strategic doctrine for countering these organisations.The work discusses whether familial or meritocratic insurgencies are more resilient to …
Understanding Insurgent Resilience
Organizational Structures and the Implications for Counterinsurgency
Häftad, 2024
671 kr
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This book examines terrorist and insurgent organisations and seeks to understand how such groups persist for so long, while introducing a new strategic doctrine for countering these organisations.The work discusses whether familial or meritocratic insurgencies are more resilient to …
Military Strategy of Middle Powers
Competing for Security, Influence, and Status in the 21st Century
Av Håkan Edström, Jacob Westberg
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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Military Strategy of Middle Powers explores to what degree twenty-first-century middle powers adjust their military strategies due to changes in the international order, such as the decline in US power.The overarching objective of the book is to explain continuity and change in the strategies of a …
