Military Studies Books

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1. Geopolitics, Strategy and the Transformation of Civilisations

   By Leonard Hochberg, James D. Hardy

   This new book captures how the uncertainties associated with the emergence of adversarial interstate relations transformed early civilizations. Leading authors compare the interaction of geopolitical and strategic thought in ancient Hebrew, Hindu, Chinese and Greek; and in the Muslim and...

   July 2011 | 978-0-7146-5713-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. American Intellectuals and US Strategy: Forging the National Security Strategy during and after the Cold War

   By Paulo J. B. Ramos

   Have academics played any role in American grand strategy? Although academics are usually seen as out-of-touch idealists working in their ivory towers they have played an important role in national security policy processes, as this book will show. By examining the relationship between academics...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-43739-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Global South to the Rescue: Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries

   Edited by Paul Amar

   In the 21st century, globalizing development agendas have often become inseparable from militarized or "securitized" interventions: aid missions embed themselves in walled police compounds, international organizations focus on quelling insurgencies, private investments flood the protection sector,...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-57795-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Geopolitics and Strategic History 1871-2050

   By Geoffrey Sloan

   A new explanation of the course of international politics from the rebirth of the German Empire to the rise of China. This volume contributes to empirically based geopolitical theory and uses that theory to improve our understanding of the major events in the international strategic...

   June 2011 | 978-0-7146-5348-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. The US Military: A Basic Introduction

   By Judith Stiehm

   This book aims to provide a basic guide to the US military and will raise questions for further discussion by students. The US spends as much on its military as all other nations the world combined; even in a severe recession, the military budget has been sacrosanct. The US military can...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-78215-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. America's Freedom Agenda Towards the Middle East: Democracy or Domination

   By Oz Hassan

   This book generates a greater understanding, and critique, of the George W. Bush administration’s Freedom Agenda for the Middle East and North Africa. That is to say, that it looks at how and why the Bush administration constructed democracy promotion for the Middle East as an American...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-60310-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Yugoslav Military Industry: Past and Present

   By Amadeo Watkins

   This book provides a historic overview of military industrial development in the territories of the Former Yugoslavia. Within a period of six decades it will see this specialist and highly demanding sector advance from a rudimentary manufacturing base to an advanced producer of modern weapons and...

   April 2011 | 978-0-7146-5626-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Helmuth Von Moltke: A Modern Biography

   By Arden Bucholz

   This detailed and comprehensive book offers the first modern biography of Helmuth Von Moltke, a major progenitor of the processes modern great powers use to engage in large-scale warfare. Drawing upon the author’s own previously published works, Moltke, Schlieffen and Prussian War Planning and...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-70200-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. The Eurasian Way of War: Military Practice in Seventh Century China and Byzantium

   By David A. Graff

   This book is a comparative study of military practice in Sui-Tang China and the Byzantine Empire between approximately 600 and 700 AD. It covers all aspects of the military art from weapons and battlefield tactics to logistics, campaign organization, military institutions, and the grand strategy of...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-46034-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. A European Army: Security Strategy and Defence Integration in Europe

    By Sven Biscop

    In the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP), the EU has acquired an operational military dimension, which has two objectives: (1) equipping the EU with the institutions and procedures to plan for, decide on and implement military (and civilian) operations abroad; and (2) enhancing the...

    April 2011 | 978-0-415-46625-7 | Hardback (Routledge)