Cass Military Studies
Military Exercises and Threat Perception in Europe: NATO, Russia, and the Politics of War Games, 1975-2018
1st Edition
By Thomas Hughes
June 12, 2026
This book explores the politics of military exercises in Europe between 1975 and 2018, revealing how NATO, the Soviet Union, and Russia have used exercises as political tools and how these activities shaped and reflected their perception of the threat environment. Drawing on extensive archival ...
Advancing Military Professional Practice through Military Humanities
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne Marie Hagen, Kjetil Enstad
June 05, 2026
This book introduces military humanities (MILHUM) as a new field of inquiry to demonstrate the utility of the humanities for a critical understanding of the military and its practices, and as a tool for developing these practices. Modelled on the medical humanities, MILHUM aims to play an analogous...
Counterinsurgency, Military Occupations, and Civilian Targeting: Explaining Indiscriminate Violence in Expeditionary Campaigns
1st Edition
By Fausto Scarinzi
April 01, 2026
This book addresses the causes of civilian targeting during counterinsurgency campaigns in occupied territories. It develops a new theoretical framework explaining the level of civilian victimization in expeditionary counterinsurgency as an outcome influenced by state leaders’ perceptions of ...
Military Policing in Advanced Democracies: Italy in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Matteo Mazziotti di Celso
February 19, 2026
This book investigates when and why governments in advanced democracies deploy armed forces for domestic security. It develops a theoretical framework conceptualising military policing as a policy instrument and identifies circumstances that lead governing parties to choose military over police for...
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 analyzes 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 ...
The Air War in Ukraine: The First Year of Conflict
1st Edition
Edited
By Dag Henriksen, Justin Bronk
October 27, 2025
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...
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 ...