This set gathers together 23 previously out-of-print titles, all classic of original research. With a wide scope, they individually focus on topics that affect security on a global scale. Analyses take in the issues surrounding the estimation of foreign military power; international air and naval power; military modelling; military growth and weapons control; environmental impacts of war; and many more.
By Richard Cohen, Peter A. Wilson
October 15, 2022
This book, first published in 1990, evaluates what future policy adjustments the US will have to make in order to successfully navigate through a national security environment radically altered from that of the past and one determined more than at any point in the post-war period by the economic ...
By Johan Galtung
October 15, 2022
This book, first published in 1973, analyses the European Community in a global perspective. It asks and answers two main questions: what does the European Community mean to the masses of the world, and what does it mean to the world community in general? Most critical studies of the EC were made ...
By Neville Brown
October 15, 2022
Air power has been one of the key elements in modern warfare. This book, first published in 1986, analyses the likely changes to this key role as military technology and strategic thinking evolve. It begins with the history and present status of air power and assesses technical developments, and ...
By Eric Grove
October 15, 2022
This book, first published in 1990, presents a fundamental reassessment of maritime strategy. It analyses the lessons of twentieth-century naval warfare and examines in detail the changing face of naval warfare, both in terms of the weapons used and the platforms from which they are launched and ...
By James H. Wyllie
October 15, 2022
Which event better characterises British military interventions: the trauma of Suez or the triumph of the Falklands? This book, first published in 1984, examines these engagements and those of the intervening period to provide a sober and considered response to this question. The issues raised are ...
By Frank Barnaby
October 15, 2022
This book, first published in 1992, examines defence issues as the twentieth century drew to a close. With the end of the Cold War, many of the threats to European security, such as the threat of nuclear war, disappeared. New ones, however, were emerging. The rise of nationalism, the spread of ...
By Ronald Hingley
October 15, 2022
This book, first published in 1970, is an important study of Russia’s security services from their earliest years to the mid-twentieth century. Ronald Hingley demonstrates how the secret police acted, both under the Tsars and under Soviet rule, as a key instrument of control exercised over all ...
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By Nicole Ball, Milton Leitenberg
October 15, 2022
Proponents of arms control and disarmament are often confronted with the argument that reductions in defense expenditure lead to cutbacks in military industries and thus to economic hardship. While a reduction in defense production would cause some economic dislocation, this would be mitigated by ...
By Sipri
October 15, 2022
This book, first published in 1980, examines the extent to which warfare and other military activities contribute to environmental degradation. The military capability to damage the environment has escalated. The military use and abuse of each of the several major global habitats – temperate, ...
By Otto Heilbrunn
October 15, 2022
This book, first published in 1963, is an analysis of modern warfare in the enemy’s rear, written by the leading authority on irregular warfare, and stemming from a close examination of real-life examples. Rear warfare on scale poses many problems, such as the exact field of operations; supply line...
By Sipri
October 15, 2022
The effects of weapons of mass destruction cannot be contained, either spatially or temporally, are unpredictable, discriminate poorly between combatants and civilians, and are highly disruptive of ecosystems. This book, first published in 1977, examines several WMD and analyses the extent and ...
By Various
May 31, 2021
This set gathers together 23 previously out-of-print titles, all classic of original research. With a wide scope, they individually focus on topics that affect security on a global scale. Analyses take in the issues surrounding the estimation of foreign military power; international air and naval ...