Cass Military Studies
Contemporary Military Innovation: Between Anticipation and Adaption
1st Edition
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By Dima Adamsky, Kjell Inge Bjerga
May 24, 2017
This book explores contemporary military innovation, with a particular focus on the balance between anticipation and adaption. The volume examines contemporary military thought and the doctrine that evolved around the thesis of a transformation in the character of war. Known as the ...
Private Security Companies during the Iraq War: Military Performance and the Use of Deadly Force
1st Edition
By Scott Fitzsimmons
February 24, 2017
This book explores the use of deadly force by private security companies during the Iraq War. The work focuses on and compares the activities of the US companies Blackwater and Dyncorp. Despite sharing several important characteristics, such as working for the same client (the US State Department)...
Space Warfare in the 21st Century: Arming the Heavens
1st Edition
By Joan Johnson-Freese
November 07, 2016
This book examines the recent shift in US space policy and the forces that continually draw the US back into a space-technology security dilemma. The dual-use nature of the vast majority of space technology, meaning of value to both civilian and military communities and being unable to ...
International Military Operations in the 21st Century: Global Trends and the Future of Intervention
1st Edition
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By Per M. Norheim-Martinsen, Tore Nyhamar
May 31, 2016
This book examines the challenges that military forces will face in multinational operations in the 21st century. Expanding on Rupert Smith’s The Utility of Force, the volume assesses the changing parameters within which force as a political instrument is ultimately carried out. By analysing nine ...
Transforming Warriors: The Ritual Organization of Military Force
1st Edition
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By Peter Haldén, Peter Jackson
May 10, 2016
This volume offers an interdisciplinary study of how different cultures have sought to transform individuals into warriors. War changes people, however a less explored question is how different societies want people to change as they are turned into warriors. When societies go to war they recognize...
Military Integration after Civil Wars: Multiethnic Armies, Identity and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
1st Edition
By Florence Gaub
January 11, 2016
This book examines the role of multiethnic armies in post-conflict reconstruction, and demonstrates how they can promote peacebuilding efforts. The author challenges the assumption that multiethnic composition leads to weakness of the military, and shows how a multiethnic army is frequently the ...
Contemporary Military Culture and Strategic Studies: US and UK Armed Forces in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Alastair Finlan
September 03, 2015
This book explores and compares the contemporary military cultures of the United States and the United Kingdom. The last decade has witnessed astonishing global events, from 9/11 and military operations in Afghanistan in the same year, to the military intervention in Libya in 2011. Western military...
The Counter-Insurgency Myth: The British Experience of Irregular Warfare
1st Edition
By Andrew Mumford
September 11, 2014
This book examines the complex practice of counter-insurgency warfare through the prism of British military experiences in the post-war era and endeavours to unpack their performance. During the twentieth century counter-insurgency assumed the status of one of the British military’s fortes. A ...
Conscription in the Napoleonic Era: A Revolution in Military Affairs?
1st Edition
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By Donald Stoker, Frederick C. Schneid, Harold D. Blanton
May 30, 2014
This edited volume explores conscription in the Napoleonic era, tracing the roots of European conscription and exploring the many methods that states used to obtain the manpower they needed to prosecute their wars. The levée-en-masse of the French Revolution has often been cited as a ‘Revolution ...
Militarism and International Relations: Political Economy, Security, Theory
1st Edition
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By Anna Stavrianakis, Jan Selby
May 30, 2014
This book examines contemporary militarism in international politics, employing a variety of different theoretical viewpoints and international case studies. Militarism – understood as the social and international relations of the preparation for, and conduct of, organized political violence – is ...
Ancient China on Postmodern War: Enduring Ideas from the Chinese Strategic Tradition
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By Thomas M. Kane
May 16, 2014
Sun Tzu and other classical Chinese strategic thinkers wrote in an era of social, economic and military revolution, and hoped to identify enduring principles of war and statecraft. The twenty-first century is a time of similarly revolutionary change, and this makes their ideas of particular ...
Qualitative Methods in Military Studies: Research Experiences and Challenges
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By Helena Carreiras, Celso Castro
May 16, 2014
This book examines the methodology of qualitative research in military studies. Since the end of the Cold War, the number of studies on military and society has grown substantially in substance, size and impact. However, only a tiny part of this bibliography deals in depth with the research ...