Cass Military Studies
Just War Theory and Likelihood of Success: Prudential Judgement, Geopolitics and Just Statecraft
1st Edition
Edited
By Eric Patterson, Robert J. Joustra
November 25, 2025
This book analyses the concept of likelihood of success in just war thinking and argues that if the concept should be retained, it must be reconsidered within the overall whole of the tradition of just war. The concept of likelihood of success has stood out as particularly troublesome to thinkers ...
Sociopolitical Sciences and International Military Affairs: The Tunnel of War and Peace
1st Edition
By Joseph Soeters
September 30, 2025
This book examines the connection between sociology and international military affairs, by analysing the work of key social and political scientists in the field. The book demonstrates the renewed relevance of older sociological concepts such as imitation, unanticipated consequences of policies, ...
Non-state Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects
1st Edition
By Ian Rice, Craig Whiteside
July 25, 2025
This book examines how violent non-state actors (VNSAs) emulate and develop military special operation capabilities. Building on previous research on Islamic State special operations, the book develops a theoretical framework surrounding a typology of VNSA (militants, proxies, criminal/cults, and ...
Civil-Military Interaction during Disaster Response: A New Model
1st Edition
By Emily M. Chapman
March 04, 2025
This book presents a model to help enhance civil-military interaction in disaster response settings for the benefit of affected communities and the host nation. Militaries are increasingly deploying to assist, or are present, in areas impacted by natural hazards. Drawing on the author’s own ...
Understanding Battlefield Coalitions
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosella Cappella Zielinski, Ryan Grauer
December 18, 2024
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...
Military Strategy in an Era of Unipolar Demise: Exploring Strategic Diversity among Nations
1st Edition
By Håkan Edström, Jacob Westberg
November 15, 2024
This book presents a systematic comparison of the military strategies pursued by five great powers, eight major middle powers and eight middle powers during the early twenty-first century. In addition to mapping the strategic priorities of these states, the study develops and applies a ...
Special Operations and National Security: Policies, Strategies, and Tactics
1st Edition
By Ben Gans
November 08, 2024
This book focuses on strategic special operations and how these have led to the achievement of major foreign policy goals, which is illustrated by six case studies. The study specifically focuses on the alignment of the policies, strategies, and tactics that dominated these operations, providing a ...
Contemporary Military Reserves: Between the Civilian and Military Worlds
1st Edition
Edited
By Eyal Ben-Ari, Vincent Connelly
August 26, 2024
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, ...
Counterinsurgency Warfare and Brutalisation: The Second Russian-Chechen War
1st Edition
By Roberto Colombo, Emil Aslan Souleimanov
August 26, 2024
This book offers the first analysis of the brutalisation paradigm in counter-insurgency warfare. Minimising the use of force and winning over the population’s opinion is said to be the cornerstone of success in modern counterinsurgency (COIN). Yet, this tells only one side of the story. Drawing ...
Military Strategies of the New European Allies: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
By Håkan Edström, Jacob Westberg
August 26, 2024
This book analyses how and to what extent ex-communist states have adjusted their defence strategies since joining the EU and NATO, and how differences and similarities between their strategies can be explained. Between 1999 and 2013, four phases of enlargement took place when the European Union (...
The Evolution of the US Air Force: Organizational Culture and Preparedness for War
1st Edition
By Israel Guy
August 05, 2024
This book looks at the history of the US Air Force through the lens of its (lack of) preparedness for major wars, which is shown to be a result of its organizational culture. The U.S. Air Force is probably the most powerful military force in history, both in its destructive firepower and in its ...
The Air War in Ukraine: The First Year of Conflict
1st Edition
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. Airpower has been central to political, military, and public debates from the outset of the Russo‑Ukrainian war. After having started with whether the US and NATO should attempt to establish...