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Man and Horse: Four Thousand Years of the Mounted Warrior by Andrew Sinclair
RRP: £20.00£15.44Man and Horse is a magisterial history of the mounted warrior and the relationship with his steed. Andrew Sinclair takes as his inspiration Walter Prescott Webb's seminal work, The Great Plains. The horse until very recently has been the decisive factor... -
Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age: Strategy as Social Science by Robert Ayson
RRP: £43.99£38.44An illuminating insight into the work of Thomas Schelling, one of the most influential strategic thinkers of the nuclear age. By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the United States' early forays into Vietnam, he had become one of the most... -
Bosnia-Herzegovina: The End of a Legacy by Neven Andjelic
RRP: £54.99£47.72When the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina broke out a baffled world sought explanations from a range of experts who offered a variety of reasons for the conflict. The author of this study takes Bosnian affairs seriously and in so doing makes it much easier to... -
Airwar: Essays on its Theory and Practice Phillip S. Meilinger 9780714682662
RRP: £43.99£38.44According to the author all aircrews, tacticians and those who direct them have to realise the limitations of air power during conflicts. For years opinion has differed as to whether the aircraft has altered war strategies or merely the tactics of war... -
The Territorial Management of Ethnic Conflict by John Coakley
RRP: £100.00£87.01The object of this book is to look at the manner in which states attempt to cope with ethnic conflict through territorial approaches. This revised edition has new chapters covering Northern Ireland, South Africa and Yugoslavia.Book InformationISBN... -
Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour: Case Studies and Debates by Tom Brass
RRP: £53.99£46.87Many works about agragarian change in the Third World assumes that unfree relations are to be eliminated in the course of capitalist development. This text argues that the incidence of bonded labour is greater than supposed, and that in certain... -
The Evolution of US Peacekeeping Policy Under Clinton: A Fairweather Friend? by Michael G. MacKinnon
RRP: £32.99£29.16This fascinating study examines the dynamic process through which the Clinton administration developed a policy towards UN peace support operations. The author addresses the fundamental question: what factors influenced the shift in US policy towards the... -
The Politics and Economics of Defence Industries by Efraim Inbar
RRP: £31.99£28.33This volume provides a policy-relevant analysis of the complex web of contemporary economic trends, political developments and strategic considerations that are shaping the contours of the new post-Cold War world market for weaponry.Book InformationISBN... -
The Media and International Security Stephen Badsey 9780714644066
RRP: £33.99£30.00A collection of the papers from the 1995 Sandhurst conference presented by leading members of the armed forces, the media and academia. The conference marked a major advance in British thinking on this very topical and fast-moving subject, bringing... -
Fallen Soviet Generals: Soviet General Officers Killed in Battle, 1941-1945 by Aleksander A. Maslov
RRP: £54.99£47.72No war has caused greater human suffering than the Second World War on Germany's Eastern Front. Victory in the war cost the Red Army over 29 million casualties, whose collective fate is only now being properly documented. Among the many millions of... -
Israeli Strategy After Desert Storm: Lessons of the Second Gulf War by Aharon Levran
RRP: £47.99£41.81Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War had a traumatic effect on the Middle East and its implications were particularly serious for Israel, which felt obliged to reassess its strategic and military perspectives. This is an examination of the lessons... -
Intelligence Analysis and Assessment David Charters 9780714642499
RRP: £47.99£41.81These essays cover: assessment systems now in place in Britain, the USA, Germany and Australia; the bureaucratic dynamics of analysis and assessment; the changing ground in intelligence; and the impact of new technologies and modes of communication on... -
Churchill, the Member for Woodford David A. Thomas 9780714641430
RRP: £39.99£35.06For nearly 40 years "among the glades of Epping Forest" Churchill found a base for his parliamentary life. This book relates with anecdotal and archival evidence the attempt to unseat him after what many supporters considered an injudicious Munich speech... -
Western Responses to Terrorism Ronald D. Crelinsten 9780714640907
RRP: £43.99£38.44This volume combines case studies of national responses to terrorism with analyses of conceptual, political, economic and data-collection problems surrounding the control of terrorism in democratic societies over the last 25 years.About the AuthorAlex P... -
Churchill, the Great Game and Total War David Jablonsky 9780714640785
RRP: £43.99£38.84Influenced by what Clausewitz called the "remarkable trinity" - the government, the military and the people - David Jablonsky studies the interaction between Churchill, the British people and the army during World War II. He argues that the great British... -
War, Strategy and Intelligence Michael I. Handel 9780714640662
RRP: £47.99£42.21Investigating the logic, conduct and nature of war on the highest political and strategic levels, these essays put less emphasis on operational and tactical aspects. They look at the impact of technology on warfare, the political nature of war and the... -
The Agrarian Question in Socialist Transitions by Ashwani Saith
RRP: £135.00£117.68First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780714632766Author Ashwani SaithFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 476g -
The Prospect of War: The British Defence Policy 1847-1942 John Gooch 9780714631288
RRP: £53.99£46.87First Published in 1981. The essays collected together in this volume deal, for the most part, with the two themes which have seemed to the author the most significant and the most intriguing in the passage made by the military in Britain from the... -
American War Plans 1945-1950 by Steven T. Ross
RRP: £43.99£38.44In late 1945, it became clear that the Soviet Union was an aggressive power. American military planners began to develop strategies to deal with the frightening possibility of a war with the Soviet Union. This work examines those plans.Book... -
US Special Forces and Counterinsurgency in Vietnam: Military Innovation and Institutional Failure, 1961-63 Christopher K. Ives 9780415654722
RRP: £53.99£46.87This volume examines US Army Special Forces efforts to mobilize and train indigenous minorities in Vietnam.Christopher K. Ives shows how before the Second Indochina War, the Republic of Vietnam had begun to falter under the burden of an increasingly... -
US Hypersonic Research and Development: The Rise and Fall of 'Dyna-Soar', 1944-1963 Roy F. Houchin II 9780415654715
RRP: £53.99£46.87An essential new account of some of the most valuable research and development in international military history.Roy F. Houchin II shows how the roots of US Air Force hypersonic research and development are grounded in Army Air Force General Henry H... -
Territory and Terror: Conflicting Nationalisms in the Basque Country by Jan Mansvelt Beck
RRP: £53.99£46.87All Basque interpretations of national power have resulted in an uneasy mix of often fragmented and conflicting territorial identifications. Basques can identify themselves with France, Spain or an imagined Basque nation state. Territory and Terror... -
Terrorist Rehabilitation and Counter-Radicalisation: New Approaches to Counter-terrorism Lawrence Rubin (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University) 9780415832274
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book seeks to explore the new frontiers in counter-terrorism research, analyses and practice, focusing on the imperative to rehabilitate terrorists. The post-9/11 world is in a very early stage of global rehabilitation both of terrorists and... -
Armed Groups and Contemporary Conflicts: Challenging the Weberian State by Keith Krause
RRP: £21.99£19.34Armed groups operating beyond the state have become the most important actors in most contemporary wars and violent conflicts, from Iraq and Afghanistan to Colombia and Somalia. They come in a dizzying array of forms: some informally linked to the state... -
Space and Defense Policy by Damon Coletta
RRP: £53.99£46.87This edited volume introduces the reader to the role of space in military and defense strategy, and outlines some of the major foreign and domestic actors in the space arena, as well as constraints of law and treaties on activities in space. It also... -
Muslims in the West after 9/11: Religion, Politics and Law Jocelyne Cesari (Harvard University, USA) 9780415776547
RRP: £45.99£40.13This book is the first systematic attempt to study the situation of European and American Muslims after 9/11, and to present a comprehensive analysis of their religious, political, and legal situations.Since 9/11, and particularly since the Madrid and... -
Power Shifts, Strategy and War: Declining States and International Conflict by Dong Sun Lee
RRP: £49.99£43.50Marked changes in the balance of power between states in the international system are generally seen by IR scholars as among the most common causes of war. This book explains why such power shifts lead to war breaking out in some cases, but not in others... -
The Southern Flank in Crisis, 1973-1976: Series III, Volume V: Documents on British Policy Overseas Keith Hamilton 9780415761550
RRP: £49.99£43.90A fascinating collection of British foreign policy documents covering reactions in Whitehall to political change and revolution in the Mediterranean basin from 1973 to 1976.This volume contains many previously unpublished documents, including Joint... -
The New American Way of War: Military Culture and the Political Utility of Force by Ben Buley
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book explores the cultural history and future prospects of the so-called `new American way of war'. In recent decades, American military culture has become increasingly dominated by a vision of `immaculate destruction', which reached its apogee with... -
German Reparations and the Jewish World: A History of the Claims Conference by Ronald W. Zweig
RRP: £53.99£46.87German Reparations and the Jewish World" has become a standard reference work since it was first published. Based extensively on archival sources, the author examines the difficult debate within the Jewish world whether it was possible to reach a... -
British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War: The British Battalion in the International Brigades, 1936-1939 Richard Baxell 9780415758734
RRP: £43.99£38.44During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 almost 2,500 men and women left Britain to fight for the Spanish Republic. This book examines the role, experiences and contribution of the volunteers who fought in the British Battalion of the 15 International... -
Imperial Defence: The Old World Order, 1856-1956 Greg Kennedy 9780415759045
RRP: £49.99£43.50This new collection of essays, from leading British and Canadian scholars, presents an excellent insight into the strategic thinking of the British Empire. It defines the main areas of the strategic decision-making process that was known as 'Imperial... -
Evaluating Counterterrorism Performance: A Comparative Study Beatrice de Graaf 9780415724128
RRP: £53.99£46.87This book offers a new model for measuring the success and impact of counterterrorism strategies, using four comparative historical case studies.The effectiveness of counterterrorism measures is hard to assess, especially since the social impact of... -
The Strategy of Terrorism: How it Works, and Why it Fails Peter R. Neumann 9780415545266
RRP: £53.99£46.87This is the first book to set out a comprehensive framework by which to understand terrorism as strategy. It contends that even terrorism of the supposedly nihilist variety can be viewed as a bona fide method for distributing means to fulfil the ends of... -
American Policy Toward Israel: The Power and Limits of Beliefs by Michael Thomas
RRP: £29.99£26.64This book explains the institutionalization of nearly unconditional American support of Israel during the Reagan administration, and its persistence in the first Bush administration in terms of the competition of belief systems in American society and... -
Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Dealing with Fighters in the Aftermath of War Robert Muggah 9780415544405
RRP: £53.99£46.87This book provides a critical analysis of the changing discourse and practice of post-conflict security-promoting interventions since the Cold War, such as disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR), and security-sector reform (SSR)Although the... -
In Victory, Magnanimity, in Peace, Goodwill: A History of Wilton Park Richard Mayne 9780415761413
RRP: £53.99£47.27Wilton Park was once a secret camp for interrogating enemy generals during World War II. But it took on its true, unique role in 1946 as a training centre for German prisoners-of-war. This volume tells of its history and the extraordinary life of Heinz... -
Ending Terrorism: Lessons for defeating al-Qaeda Audrey Kurth Cronin 9780415450621
RRP: £26.99£23.46Like all other terrorist movements, al-Qaeda will end. While it has traits that exploit and reflect the current international context, it is not utterly without precedent: some aspects of al-Qaeda are unusual, but many are not. Terrorist groups end... -
Nuclear Superiority: The 'New Triad' and the Evolution of American Nuclear Strategy by David S. McDonough
RRP: £26.99£23.46In 2002 the Bush administration completed a Nuclear Posture Review that introduced a `new triad' based on offensive-strike systems, defences and a revitalized defence infrastructure. The new triad is designed for a new strategic threat environment,... -
Network Centric Warfare: Coalition Operations in the Age of US Military Primacy by Paul T. Mitchell
RRP: £26.99£23.46Since its emergence in 1998, the concept of Network Centric Warfare (NCW) has become a central driver behind America's military `transformation' and seems to offer the possibility of true integration between multinational military formations. Even though...