Cass Military Studies
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 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 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
Edited
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 ...
Strategy Before Clausewitz: Linking Warfare and Statecraft, 1400-1830
1st Edition
By Beatrice Heuser
August 15, 2017
This collection of essays combines historical research with cutting-edge strategic analysis and makes a significant contribution to the study of the early history of strategic thinking. There is a debate as to whether strategy in its modern definition existed before Napoleon and Clausewitz. The ...
Democratic Civil-Military Relations: Soldiering in 21st Century Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Sabine Mannitz
June 16, 2017
This book examines the ways in which European democracies, including former communist states, are dealing with the new demands placed on their security policies since the cold war by transforming their military structures, and the effects this is having on the conceptualisation of soldiering. In ...
Researching the Military
1st Edition
Edited
By Helena Carreiras, Celso Castro, Sabina Frederic
June 16, 2017
Researching the Military focuses on the experiences of researchers who study the military around the world. It explores the historical, social, institutional and personal factors that frame research and scrutinize the way knowledge in this area impacts society and policy. More than merely ...
Security, Strategy and Military Change in the 21st Century: Cross-Regional Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Jo Inge Bekkevold, Ian Bowers, Michael Raska
June 07, 2017
This edited volume explores and analyses strategic thinking, military reform and adaptation in an era of Asian growth, European austerity and US rebalancing. A significant shift in policy, strategy and military affairs is underway in both Asia and Europe, with the former gaining increasing ...