Cass Military Studies
Military Intervention, Stabilisation and Peace: The search for stability
1st Edition
By Christian Dennys
May 12, 2014
This book examines international military interventions that have supported stability in four communities in Afghanistan and Nepal, in an attempt to analyse their success and improve this in future. This is the first in-depth village-level assessment of how local populations conceive of stability...
Imperial Defence: The Old World Order, 1856–1956
1st Edition
Edited
By Greg Kennedy
April 24, 2014
This new collection of essays, from leading British and Canadian scholars, presents an excellent insight into the strategic thinking of the British Empire. It defines the main areas of the strategic decision-making process that was known as 'Imperial Defence'. The theme is one of ...
Military Strategy as Public Discourse: America's war in Afghanistan
1st Edition
By Tadd Sholtis
November 14, 2013
This book presents the current history of United States military strategy in Afghanistan as an example of dysfunctional policy discourse among the nation’s elites. The legitimacy of a country’s military strategy can become a subject of intense public debate and doubt, especially in prolonged ...
Military Unionism In The Post-Cold War Era: A Future Reality?
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Bartle, Lindy Heinecken
October 25, 2013
This unique study of military unionism shows how the changing nature of present day conflicts has made soldier representation more important then ever. This new collection of essays clearly establish the key factors in the military union debate in recent years and highlight the mechanisms different...
Khedive Ismail's Army
1st Edition
By John P. Dunn
September 25, 2013
Khedive Ismail's Army examines military failure in the age of imperialism. On paper, the mid-nineteenth century Egyptian army seems a formidable regional power. It had a tradition of success, modern weapons, and mercenary officers with experience in major wars. Egypt's ruler, Khedive Ismail, hoped...
Military Ethics and Virtues: An Interdisciplinary Approach for the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Peter Olsthoorn
September 20, 2013
This book examines the role of military virtues in today's armed forces.Although long-established military virtues, such as honor, courage and loyalty, are what most armed forces today still use as guiding principles in an effort to enhance the moral behavior of soldiers, much depends on whether ...
Europe, Strategy and Armed Forces: The making of a distinctive power
1st Edition
By Sven Biscop, Jo Coelmont
August 07, 2013
This book examines how the European Union can pursue a grand strategy and become a distinct global actor in a world of emerging great powers. At the grand strategic level, its sheer economic size makes the EU a global power. However, the EU needs to take into account that many international actors...
Military Health Care: From Pre-Deployment to Post-Separation
1st Edition
Edited
By Jomana Amara, Ann M. Hendricks
March 22, 2013
This edited volume surveys critical aspects of modern military health care in the US and various other Western countries with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the United States, the military medical system, including care for veterans, is large and diverse and involves two institutions, the US ...
Clausewitz and African War: Politics and Strategy in Liberia and Somalia
1st Edition
By Isabelle Duyvesteyn
November 14, 2012
Oil, diamonds, timber, food aid - just some of the suggestions put forward as explanations for African wars in the past decade. Another set of suggestions focuses on ethnic and clan considerations. These economic and ethnic or clan explanations contend that wars are specifically not fought by...
Educating America's Military
1st Edition
By Joan Johnson-Freese
October 23, 2012
This book offers a detailed examination of the professional military education system in the United States, from a critical, insider's perspective. The mission of America’s war colleges is to educate senior military officers in both the ways of war and the defence of peace. But are these colleges ...
Rostov in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920: The Key to Victory
1st Edition
By Brian Murphy
October 19, 2012
These documents were collected from the archives in Rostov-on-Don, and this book makes them available for the first time in print. Since becoming freely accessible Soviet archives have provided a rich source for understanding the hopes, fears and strivings of the Russians during the greatest crisis...
The Cuban Intervention in Angola, 1965-1991: From Che Guevara to Cuito Cuanavale
1st Edition
By Edward George
September 18, 2012
A new examination of why Cuba, a Caribbean country, sent half a million of its citizens to fight in Angola in Africa, and how a short-term intervention escalated into a lengthy war of intervention. It clearly details how in January 1965 Cuba formed an alliance with the Angolan MPLA ...