Cass Military Studies
Military Mission Formations and Hybrid Wars: New Sociological Perspectives
1st Edition
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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
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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, ‘...
Military Strategy of Small States: Responding to External Shocks of the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Håkan Edström, Dennis Gyllensporre, Jacob Westberg
April 28, 2020
The book explores how small states adjust their military strategies in response to external shocks. Using primary sources from four Nordic countries, (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden), this volume explores how small states have adjusted their military strategies in response to external shocks ...
Management and Military Studies: Classical and Current Foundations
1st Edition
By Joseph L. Soeters
April 17, 2020
This book connects findings and insights authored by famous scholars in management and organization studies with challenges the military is facing today. One assumes that management and organization studies is only about the rational, predictable, and manageable, and that military action is ...
European Military Culture and Security Governance: Soldiers, Scholars and National Defence Universities
1st Edition
By Tamir Libel
August 23, 2018
This book offers the first systematic, comparative analysis of military education and training in Europe within the context of the post-Cold War security environment. Based on an analysis of military education institutions in the UK, Germany, Finland, Romania and the Baltic States, this book ...
Sociology and Military Studies: Classical and Current Foundations
1st Edition
By Joseph L. Soeters
March 21, 2018
This book examines the connection between sociology and the challenges faced by the modern military. Military sociology has received little attention in the broader academic world, and is mostly focused on civil-military relations. This book seeks to address this gap and combines ideas, theories ...
Military Families and War in the 21st Century: Comparative perspectives
1st Edition
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By Rene Moelker, Manon Andres, Gary Bowen, Philippe Manigart
March 02, 2018
This book focuses on the key issues that affect military families when soldiers are deployed overseas, focusing on the support given to military personnel and families before, during and after missions. Today’s postmodern armies are expected to provide social-psychological support both to their ...
Drones and the Future of Air Warfare: The Evolution of Remotely Piloted Aircraft
1st Edition
By Michael P. Kreuzer
February 12, 2018
This book examines the evolution of airpower and specifically the growth and proliferation of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPAs). While most existing literature examines either the law or ethics of RPAs, and some newer scholarship looks to the battlefield effectiveness (the gains from strikes versus...
Understanding Military Doctrine: A Multidisciplinary Approach
1st Edition
By Harald Hoiback
January 12, 2018
This book puts military doctrine into a wider perspective, drawing on military history, philosophy, and political science. Military doctrines are institutional beliefs about what works in war; given the trauma of 9/11 and the ensuing 'War on Terror', serious divergences over what the message of ...
The Military and Liberal Society: Societal-Military Relations in Western Europe
1st Edition
By Tomas Kucera
August 31, 2017
This book describes to what extent and in what ways the military policies of Western European societies are determined by liberal ideology. A wide variety of issues affected by liberal ideology, including conscription, conscientious objection, military mission, military ethics and the ...