Cass Military Studies
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
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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
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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 ...
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 ...