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The Evolution of the US Air Force Organizational Culture and Preparedness for War

The Evolution of the US Air Force: Organizational Culture and Preparedness for War

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Israel Guy
August 16, 2024

This book looks at the history of the US Air Force through the lens of its (lack of) preparedness for war, which is shown to be a result of its organisational culture.   The U.S. Air Force is probably the most powerful military force in history, both in its destructive firepower and in its ability ...

The Air War in Ukraine The First Year of Conflict

The Air War in Ukraine: The First Year of Conflict

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Dag Henriksen, Justin Bronk
August 01, 2024

This book provides a comprehensive account of the use of airpower in the first year of the Ukraine conflict. Owing to the need to avoid direct war with Russia, NATO did not create a No-Fly Zone over Ukraine and the initial contest for air superiority ended in an uneasy state of mutual denial. ...

Civil-Military Cooperation in International Interventions The Role of Soldiers

Civil-Military Cooperation in International Interventions: The Role of Soldiers

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Agata Mazurkiewicz
May 27, 2024

This book investigates the challenges related to civil-military cooperation (CIMIC) and offers a new perspective by examining the social role of NATO CIMIC soldiers. The intertwining of the civilian and military spheres has become a significant part of the contemporary security environment. However...

Proxy War in Yemen

Proxy War in Yemen

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Bernd Kaussler, Keith A. Grant
May 27, 2024

This book analyzes the civil war in Yemen and how intervening external actors have shaped the trajectory of the conflict. The work examines the conflict in Yemen as a testing ground for expectations about the autonomy and control of proxies by external patrons and the direct consequences for ...

Understanding Insurgent Resilience Organizational Structures and the Implications for Counterinsurgency

Understanding Insurgent Resilience: Organizational Structures and the Implications for Counterinsurgency

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Andrew Henshaw
May 27, 2024

This book examines terrorist and insurgent organisations and seeks to understand how such groups persist for so long, while introducing a new strategic doctrine for countering these organisations. The work discusses whether familial or meritocratic insurgencies are more resilient to ...

Supreme Leadership in Modern War Civil-Military Relations During Competition and War

Supreme Leadership in Modern War: Civil-Military Relations During Competition and War

1st Edition

Edited By James Lacey, Williamson Murray
October 26, 2023

This edited volume focuses on civil-military relations before and during great power conflicts, and comprises historical case studies of modern supreme leadership. It aims to provide a guide for the future by shining a light on what worked and what failed in the civil-military relationships that ...

Understanding the Impact of Social Research on the Military Reflections and Critiques

Understanding the Impact of Social Research on the Military: Reflections and Critiques

1st Edition

Edited By Eyal Ben-Ari, Helena Carreiras, Celso Castro
September 25, 2023

This book seeks to chart and evaluate the impact of social research on the military itself. By "impact", the authors in this volume simply mean that which has a marked effect or influence on changing military policy, practices, knowledge, skills, behaviour, or living conditions. The book comprises ...

Understanding Battlefield Coalitions

Understanding Battlefield Coalitions

1st Edition

Edited By Rosella Cappella Zielinski, Ryan Grauer
September 11, 2023

This book improves our understanding of battlefield coalitions, providing novel theoretical and empirical insight into their nature and capabilities, as well as the military and political consequences of their combat operations. The volume provides the first dataset of battlefield coalitions, uses...

French Defence Policy Since the End of the Cold War

French Defence Policy Since the End of the Cold War

1st Edition

By Alice Pannier, Olivier Schmitt
May 31, 2023

This book describes the evolution of French defence policy since the end of the Cold War. For the past thirty years there have been significant changes to French defence policy as a result of several contextual evolutions. Changes include shifts in the global balance of power, new understandings of...

Military Strategy of Great Powers Managing Power Asymmetry and Structural Change in the 21st Century

Military Strategy of Great Powers: Managing Power Asymmetry and Structural Change in the 21st Century

1st Edition

By Håkan Edström, Jacob Westberg
May 31, 2023

This book explores the military strategies of the five system-determining great powers during the twenty-first century. The book’s point of departure is that analyses of countries’ defence strategies should acknowledge that states come in various shapes and sizes and that their strategic choices ...

War and International Relations A Critical Analysis

War and International Relations: A Critical Analysis

1st Edition

By Balazs Szanto
January 09, 2023

This book provides a critical overview of the occurrence of war in the international system by examining the concept from multiple perspectives and theoretical backgrounds. War is an essential concept in international affairs, if for no other reason than because prevention of war requires an ...

Contemporary Military Reserves Between the Civilian and Military Worlds

Contemporary Military Reserves: Between the Civilian and Military Worlds

1st Edition

Edited By Eyal Ben-Ari, Vincent Connelly
December 30, 2022

This book offers a comparative study of military reserves in contemporary democracies. A combination of budgetary pressures, new missions and emerging military roles during the past three decades has led the armed forces of democracies to rethink the training and use of reserve forces. Moreover, ...

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