1st Edition

Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies

Edited By David J. Galbreath, John R. Deni Copyright 2018
412 Pages
by Routledge

412 Pages
by Routledge

412 Pages
by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies provides a comprehensive collection of essays on contemporary defence studies by leading international scholars. Defence studies is a multi-disciplinary study of how agents, predominantly states, prepare for and go to war. Whereas security studies has been broadened and stretched to cover at times the near totality of international and domestic... Read more

Introduction, David J. Galbreath and John R. Deni

          Part I: Defence as Policy

  1. Defence as Policy, Trevor Taylor
  2. Defence as War, Olivier Schmitt
  3. Defence as Security, Hannah E. Dönges and Stephanie C. Hofmann
  4. Methods in Defence Studies, Delphine Deschaux-Dutard
  5. Part II: Defence Practice

  6. Defence Budgets, Keith Hartley
  7. Defence Procurement, Matthew Uttley
  8. Recruiting and Retention to Sustain a Volunteer Military Force Defence Education, Beth J. Asch and John T. Warner
  9. Professional Military Education, Victoria Syme-Taylor and Duraid Jalili
  10. Military Logistics, Mahyar Amouzegar
  11. Military Doctrine, Harald Høiback
  12. Strategy, Thomas G. Mahnken
  13. Defence Strategic Culture: Between Power and Rules, Julian Lindley-French
  14. Civil-Military Relations, Birthe Anders
  15. Part III: Operations and Tactics

  16. Land warfare, Christopher Tuck
  17. Air warfare, Viktoriya Fedorchak
  18. Naval warfare, Alessio Patalano
  19. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency, Celeste Ward Gventer
  20. Nuclear Warfare and Deterrence, John Friend and Bradley A. Thayer
  21. Cyber warfare, Chris Bronk
  22. Joint combined operations, Thomas Drohan
  23. Peace operations, Berma Klein Goldewijk and Joseph Soeters
  24. Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Adam D.M. Svendsen
  25. Part IV: Contemporary Defence Issues

  26. Public Opinion and Defence, Bastian Giegerich
  27. The Role of Private Military Corporations in Defence, Mark Erbel and Christopher Kinsey
  28. Resilience, Security and Defence, Brett Edwards
  29. Military Transformation, Peter Dombrowski
  30. Military Robots and Drones, Ulrike Esther Franke
  31. Military Alliances, James Sperling
  32. Security Assistance, John R. Deni
  33. Future War, Manabrata Guha

Biography

David J. Galbreath is Professor of International Security and Director of the Centre for Security and Technology at the University of Bath, UK. He is former Editor-in-Chief of European Security (2009–2015) and Defence Studies (2013–2016), and author of, most recently, The European Minority Rights Regime (2012, with Joanne McEvoy).

John R. Deni is Research Professor of Security Studies at the US Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute and an adjunct lecturer at American University’s School of International Service. He is author of NATO and Article 5 (2017).