3 vol. set. — ABC-CLIO, 2017. — 1195 p. Containing some 500 entries covering the interaction between war and religion from ancient times, the three-volume War and Religion: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict provides students with an invaluable reference source for examining two of the most important phenomena impacting society today. This all-inclusive reference work will...
Naval Institute Press, 2007. — 232 p. This handsome, large-format book takes the reader on an illustrated tour of the U.S. Army's hard-hitting airborne forces, from the original Parachute Test Platoon of 1940 to the multiple global commitment of the twenty-first century. Featuring more than 150 photographs, some rare or seldom seen and many in color, the work highlights the...
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023. — 638 p. The theme of the book is the creation of tactics for littoral warfare – as opposed to the more common blue ocean perspective. Themes are how NATO perceived the goals of the enemy; the purposes of the NATO organisations, the military instruments they had to organise, the organization of cooperation among units from sovereign states, and how...
VR Unipress, 2022. — 172 p. This monograph presents issues related to the armed conflict in Ukraine, which began in 2014 and is still ongoing. It shows the socio-historical background of warfare; the factors determining the distribution of adaptive resources (assigning them meaning, as well as experienced gains and losses of a subjective, state, material and energy nature). It...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 232 p. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has yet to be directly analysed as a military security complex with significant political influence. This book explores Iran's IRGC and Qods Force, focussing on its development following the Iranian Revolution, and how they have skilfully transformed Iran's defense doctrine to fight an irregular...
Edinburgh University Press, 2023. — 272 p. How and why the three losers of the Second World War reconsidered their pacifism, embraced a more active military role and transformed their armed forces after the Cold War: Analysis of the process of military transformation in Italy, Germany and Japan. Addresses the impact of historical legacies on the pacing and direction of...
Harvard University Press, 2023. — 288 p. Why is Israel’s relatively small and low-budget military also the world’s most innovative, technologically and logistically? Edward Luttwak and Eitan Shamir look to the IDF’s unique structure: integrating army, air force, and navy in one service, under an officer class constantly refreshed by short tenures, the IDF is built for agility...
The History Press, 2018. — 224 p. Can air power alone win a war? That has been the question since the Second World War. Air attacks failed miserably in Vietnam; Operation Linebacker had little effect, while bombing Hanoi just increased hatred for America – yet air strikes in both Iraq and Libya helped bring about regime changes. No-fly zones may have worked in the Balkans, but...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 102 р. Japan is emerging as a more prominent global and regional military power, defying traditional categorisations of a minimalist contribution to the US-Japan alliance, maintaining anti-militarism, seeking an internationalist role, or carving out more strategic autonomy. Instead, this Element argues that Japan has fundamentally shifted its...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 320 p. An authoritative military history of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division in Operation Iraqi Freedom, describing the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the siege and fall of Baghdad, and the nation-building mission that followed. In 21 Days to Baghdad, historian Dr. Heather Stur describes the commitment of the division to Kuwait, the invasion of Iraq...
Routledge, 2024. — 370 p. Placing Alexander the Great’s leadership, command skills, and grand strategy within the context of twenty-first century military challenges, and thus showing continuities in leadership and warfare since his time, this volume demonstrates how and why Alexander is relevant to the modern world by emphasizing the need for human leadership in our digital...
Harper, 2023. — 545 p. Two leading authorities--an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time--collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin's invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analysis of what we must learn from the past--and anticipate...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 100 p. This series provides the most detailed information of battles and the units which fought them. Includes comprehensive order of battle diagrams, specially commissioned maps, and is supported by contemporary photographs and unit insignia and colors. The delivery of entire divisions to battlefields behind enemy lines by parachute and glider was a...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 301 p. Following the success of Out of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper, sniper expert Martin Pegler gives us an in-depth study of the emergence of American rifleman, sharpshooter and sniper, examining the evolution of the rifle in America from the earliest firearms of the 15th century to the highly accurate sniping rifles of the 21st...
Illustrator: Howard Gerrard. — Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 64 p. In the early hours of D-Day, 1944, a group from the US Army 2nd Rangers Battalion were sent on one of the legendary raids of World War II. The mission was to scale the cliffs overlooking Omaha beach and assault the German coastal artillery at Pointe-du-Hoc. It was thought that only a raid could ensure that the guns...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 250 p. The book aims to explain the factors that brought about a high degree of similarity between American and Canadian foreign and security policies during the Afghanistan intervention. Specifically, it seeks to explain why, despite their different positions in the international distribution of power, the United States and Canada embraced similar...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 359 p. What can we learn about leadership and the experience of war from the best combat leaders the world has ever known? This book takes us behind the scenes and to the front lines of the major wars of the past 250 years through the words of twenty combat commanders. What they have to say-which is remarkably similar across generational,...
ISEAS Publishing, 2018. — 122 p. This study examines the impact of Doi Moi on the Vietnam People's Army (VPA), with particular attention being given to the period after its withdrawal from Cambodia. This study is divided into four chapters. The first provides a brief historical introduction. The second examines the changes ushered in during the early years of Doi Moi. The third...
University of Toronto Press, 2002. — 288 p. Covering training, Manning, equipment, and combat efforts, this is first full non-offical history of the Canadian Army's military operations in Korea from the summer of 1950 to the peacekeeping ceasefire of 1953.
Stanford University Press, 2014. — 304 p. Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an extensive section on the lessons of Vietnam, it traces the decline of COIN in the 1970s, then the rebirth of low intensity conflict through the Reagan years, in the conflict in Bosnia, and finally in the...
Cornell University Press, 2013. — 304 p. The U.S. Army entered World War II unprepared. In addition, lacking Germany's blitzkrieg approach of coordinated armor and air power, the army was organized to fight two wars: one on the ground and one in the air. Previous commentators have blamed Congressional funding and public apathy for the army's unprepared state. David E. Johnson...
Edinburgh University Press, 2008. — 255 p. Is terrorism ever morally justified? How should historical and cultural factors be taken into account in judging the morality of terrorist acts? What are the ethical limits of state counter-terrorism? For three decades the Provisional Irish Republican Army waged an 'armed struggle' against what it considered to be the British...
Potomac Books, 2013. — 187 p. The days of large force-on-force engagements with conventional fielded armies are seemingly gone. Today’s persistent conflict, conducted among civilian populations and fought by small bands of combatants, will be remembered for this alteration in the tapestry of war and for the first large-scale use of unmanned vehicles. According to M. Shane Riza,...
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018. — 441 p. This book fills a gap in the historiographical and theoretical fields of race, gender, and war. In brief, Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare (RGMWW) offers an introduction into how cultural constructions of identity are transformed by war and how they in turn influence the nature of military institutions and conflicts. Focusing on...
ABC-CLIO, 2008. — 200 p. This work is a bridge between the failed/weak states' literature and that which examines issues relating to small arms proliferation. Carr investigates the cultural impact of the availability of these easy-to-come-by weapons. This cultural dynamic has a direct, and deadly impact on issues such as arms control, illegal and illicit trading, gun cultures,...
Hamilton Books, 2016. — 140 p. The authors of this book are uniquely qualified to analyze the contemporary security landscape and promote necessary and pressing change. Each is a thought leader in his or her field. Four out of six authors are seasoned military professionals who share the view that the over-reliance on kinetic approaches over influence operations account for...
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 304 р. Arguing that Israel's conflicts with Egypt and Palestinian infiltrators from Jordan were defensive in nature, Jonathan Shimshoni illuminates the strategy and ethos of guerilla conflict and thereby contributes to our general understanding of non-nuclear deterrence.
HYPOTHEKAI. — 2021. — Вып. 5. — с. 64-82. Статья представляет собой предварительную попытку атрибуции двух списков источников византийских военных трактатов первый в «Тактике» византийского императора Льва VI Мудрого (886 912 гг.) и второй - в «Тактике» византийского стратига и дукса Антиохии Никифора Урана (1000-е гг.). Ряд этих источников достаточно ясен - это военные...
Edinburgh University Press, 2016. — 259 р. The first comparative history of military occupation as a political phenomenon. An understanding of military occupation as a distinct phenomenon first emerged in the 18th century. This book shows how this understanding developed and the problems that the occupiers, the occupied, commentators and the courts encountered. Covers all major...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. — 214 p. This book examines culture, the "bedrock of military" effectiveness, from a theoretical and a practical point of view. In comparing Canadian and American military cultures, it concludes that while the culture of the Canadian Forces has been "Americanized" to a certain extent, the culture of the US armed forces, due to changes in...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. — 259 p. A multi-disciplinary study on wartime decision-making, with a focus on how Canada and its allies engage in conflict. War Made New? Cycles of Revolutions in Military Affairs and Intervention. Disasters as Security Threats: Mapping Humanitarian Assistance Needs and Priorities for the Canadian Armed Forces. The Strategic Impact of...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 470 p. The Soldier and the Changing State is the first book to systematically explore, on a global scale, civil-military relations in democratizing and changing states. Looking at how armies supportive of democracy are built, Zoltan Barany argues that the military is the most important institution that states maintain, for without military...
Basic Books, 2023. — 422 p. The definitive history of women in war, revealing how women have always been an essential part of combat From Boudicca’s rebellion to the war in Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Some formed all-female armies, like the Dahomey Mino of West Africa; some fought disguised as men; some mobilized in times of...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. — 230 p. Unpacking the most important component of the Canada-US defence relationship, both in the present and into the future. Wide-ranging changes have been made to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) since 2006, when the binational agreement was signed in perpetuity. NORAD traces the joint command’s recent history – one...
Военная мысль. — 2023. — №3. — с. 28-34. Рассматриваются актуальные вопросы развития современного военного искусства, нашедшие отражение в трудах великих военных теоретиков и полководцев со времен Сунь-Цзы и по настоящее время. В этих условиях для тех, кто связал свою судьбу с армией, важно не только знать, каким путем шло развитие военного искусства, но и осознать себя в этом...
Военная мысль. — 2023. — №5. — с. 126-136. Раскрыт вклад наиболее известных русских военачальников в развитие военного искусства в период с XIII по XIX век. Проведена параллель между основными принципами тактики и характерными чертами полководческого искусства каждого из указанных в статье крупных военных деятелей.
Свободная мысль. — 2023. — №1. — с. 187-198. Моральный дух армии - хотя и не достаточное, но однозначно необходимое условие победы над врагом. Проведена экспликация категории «моральный дух армии» в контексте следующих структур и проблем: война как историческое явление; военно-научные категории, при помощи которых раскрывается сущность морального духа армии как сложного...
Illustrator: Rodríguez Irene Cano — Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 80 p. On June 4, 1944 a US Navy antisubmarine task group in the Atlantic captured an enemy U-boat on the high seas. It was not the first time the Allies had taken a German U-boat as a prize, but the capture of U-505 was different. Captain Gallery and his Task Group 22.3 devised a risky plan to capture scuttled...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 265 p. From sensor-fuzed munitions and autonomous weapons, to ground moving target indication radar, laser vibrometers and artificial intelligence, the weapons of warfare are undergoing a rapid transformation, with modern technologies reshaping how armies intend to fight in the twenty-first century. The Arms of the Future analyses how the...
Newport, Rhode Island: Naval War College Press, 2008. — 504 p. Contains a discussion of armed groups which are considered to include classic insurgents, terrorists, guerrillas, militias, police agencies, criminal organizations, war-lords, privatized military organizations, mercenaries, pirates, drug cartels, apocalyptic religious extremists, orchestrated rioters and mobs, and...
Helion and Company, 2015. — 272 p. On the outskirts of west Belfast in Northern Ireland, and in the shadow of the Black Mountain, is situated the predominantly Catholic community of Andersonstown. Between November 1971 and March 1972 this small area of land, which is just two miles long by one mile deep, became the scene of many gun-battles between the men of 9(Plassey)...
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 177 p. Even powerful states face disaster if their armies do not adapt military doctrine to meet new challenges. Comparing the cases of the United States Army in Vietnam and the British Army during the Boer War and the Malayan Emergency, Deborah Avant offers a new account of the conditions that help shape doctrine within military organizations....
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 250 p. In this innovative theoretical book, Elizabeth Kier uses a cultural approach to take issue with the conventional wisdom that military organizations inherently prefer offensive doctrines. Kier argues instead that a military's culture affects its choices between offensive and defensive military doctrines. Drawing on organizational...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 368 p. The goal of war is to defeat the enemy's will to fight. But how this can be accomplished is a thorny issue. Nothing Less than Victory provocatively shows that aggressive, strategic military offenses can win wars and establish lasting peace, while defensive maneuvers have often led to prolonged carnage, indecision, and stalemate. Taking...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 136 p. By 1959 the newly independent Kingdom of Laos was being transformed into a Cold War battleground for global superpower competition, having been born out of the chaos following the French military defeat and withdrawal from Indochina in 1954. The country was soon engulfed in a rapidly evolving civil war as rival forces jockeyed for power...
RAND Corporation, 2014. — 174 p. In 2008, U.S. and Iraqi forces defeated an uprising in Sadr City, a district of Baghdad with ~2.4 million residents. Coalition forces' success in this battle helped consolidate the Government of Iraq's authority, contributing significantly to the attainment of contemporary U.S. operational objectives in Iraq. U.S. forces' conduct of the battle...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023. — 239 p. Focusing on the period during the 1964-1980 Indochina wars, Min Chen examines the "big power" triangular relationship involving China, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Introduction. Historical Overview of Big-Power Involvement in Indochina. The First Stage: 1964-1969. The Second Stage: 1970-1975. The Third Stage: 1976-1980....
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 191 p. Scales on War is a collection of ideas, concepts and observations about contemporary war taken from over 30 years of research, writing and personal experience by retired Major General Bob Scales. The book melds Scales’ unique style of writing that includes contemporary military history, current events and his philosophy of ground warfare to...
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 288 p. In Margin of Victory Douglas Macgregor tells the riveting stories of five military battles of the twentieth century, each one a turning point in history. Beginning with the British Expeditionary force holding the line at the Battle of Mons in 1914 and concluding with the Battle of Easting in 1991 during Desert Storm, Margin of Victory...
Naval Institute Press, 2010. — 361 p. Covering both Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom as two campaigns within a single, if discontinuous, conflict, this book analyzes the strategic interaction between Iraq and the United States from 1990 to 2010 and the key operational decisions that determined the course of the war. The author’s assessment of the long war...