Cass Military Studies
Civil-Military Cooperation in International Interventions: The Role of Soldiers
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
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
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 ...
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
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
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 ...
Military Mission Formations and Hybrid Wars: New Sociological Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Vladimir Brønd, Uzi Ben-Shalom, Eyal Ben-Ari
May 06, 2022
This volume explores and develops new social-scientific tools for the analysis and understanding of contemporary military missions in theatre. Despite the advent of new types of armed conflict, the social-scientific study of militaries in action continues to focus on tools developed in the hey-day ...
Military Strategy of Middle Powers: Competing for Security, Influence, and Status in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Håkan Edström, Jacob Westberg
May 06, 2022
Military Strategy of Middle Powers explores to what degree twenty-first-century middle powers adjust their military strategies due to changes in the international order, such as the decline in US power. The overarching objective of the book is to explain continuity and change in the strategies of a...
Managing Security: Concepts and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura R. Cleary, Roger Darby
November 29, 2021
This textbook is designed to be used by those tackling the complex and challenging issues of security sector reform (SSR). The questions of ‘What is security?’ and ‘How can governments deliver it in the most efficient and effective manner?’ are central to this volume. The text explores the ways ...
A Global History of Pre-Modern Warfare: Before the Rise of the West, 10,000 BCE–1500 CE
1st Edition
By Kaushik Roy
September 15, 2021
This book examines the military histories of the regions beyond Western Europe in the pre-modern era. Existing works on global military history mainly focus on the western part of Eurasia after 1500 CE. As regards the ancient period, such works concentrate exclusively on Greece and Rome. So, ‘...