All Stories

  1. Political Impatience and Military Caution
  2. Cult of the irrelevant: The waning influence of social science on National Security
  3. Trump and Brexit
  4. Force and the international community: Blair’s Chicago speech and the criteria for intervention
  5. On Military Advice
  6. Stephen Pinker and the long peace: alliance, deterrence and decline
  7. Ukraine and the Art of Crisis Management
  8. Disarmament and Other Nuclear Norms
  9. Defining War
  10. The Counterrevolution in Strategic Affairs
  11. FRAMING STRATEGIC DETERRENCE
  12. A New Theory for Nuclear Disarmament
  13. The Transformation of Strategic Affairs
  14. Terrorism as a Strategy
  15. Response to Reviews
  16. Iraq, Liberal Wars and Illiberal Containment
  17. Confessions of a premature constructivist
  18. Bob O'Neill and the art of academic leadership
  19. Britain at War
  20. Introduction
  21. Is Iraq Another Vietnam?
  22. Notes
  23. The Special Relationship, Then and Now
  24. Asymmetric war
  25. Chapter five
  26. Amateur Soldiers, Global Wars: Insurgency and Modern Conflict
  27. Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger
  28. Bracing for Armageddon: Why Civil Defense Never Worked
  29. Writing of Wrongs: Was the War in Iraq Doomed from the Start?
  30. Military Power: A Roundtable Review
  31. Second Strike: Arguments about Nuclear War in South Asia
  32. Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War
  33. War and the Law of Nations: A General History
  34. The Bomb in the Basement: How Israel Went Nuclear and What That Means for the World
  35. The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World
  36. Peacebuilding in Postconflict Societies: Strategy and Process
  37. Rethinking the Economics of War: The Intersection of Need, Creed, and Greed
  38. The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: An Insider's Perspective
  39. State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
  40. Presidential Commissions and National Security: The Politics of Damage Control
  41. War and the Engineers: The Primacy of Politics over Technology
  42. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
  43. Cobra II: The inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
  44. The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy
  45. Making War and Building Peace: United Nations Peace Operations
  46. Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias: The Warriors of Contemporary Combat
  47. The age of liberal wars
  48. The Transatlantic Agenda: Vision and Counter-Vision
  49. Deterrence: A reply
  50. The politics of warning: Terrorism and risk communication
  51. War evolves into the fourth generation: A comment on Thomas X. Hammes
  52. A Theory of Battle or a Theory of War?
  53. Strategic Terror and Amateur Psychology
  54. The Impact of the Falklands Conflict on International Affairs
  55. Making Sense of Suicide Missions
  56. Every War Must End
  57. International Governance of War-Torn Territories: Rule and Reconstruction
  58. Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945
  59. Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
  60. Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
  61. Soldier Dead: How We Recover, Identify, Bury, and Honor Our Military Fallen
  62. Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
  63. Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam
  64. The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer, and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race
  65. Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground
  66. Confronting Captivity: Britain and the United States and Their POWs in Nazi Germany
  67. Overconfidence and War: The Havoc and Glory of Positive Illusions
  68. The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy
  69. The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam
  70. The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis
  71. Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror
  72. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
  73. Command Failure in War: Psychology and Leadership
  74. No End in Sight: The Continuing Menace of Nuclear Proliferation
  75. Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism
  76. Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II
  77. The new security equation
  78. Plan of Attack
  79. The Iraq War
  80. Disarming Iraq
  81. Arguing about War
  82. War in Iraq: Selling the Threat
  83. War Crimes: Confronting Atrocity in the Modern World
  84. Terrorism, Freedom, and Security: Winning without War
  85. Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
  86. The Behavioral Origins of War
  87. Terrorism, Afghanistan, and America's New Way of War
  88. Panzer Operations: The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, 1941-1945
  89. Politics and the Russian Army: Civil-Military Relations, 1689-2000
  90. The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871
  91. Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation
  92. The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking
  93. Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force
  94. The Geography of Ethnic Violence: Identity, Interests, and the Indivisibility of Territory
  95. Why Wars Widen: A Theory of Predation and Balancing
  96. Where Is the Lone Ranger When We Need Him? America's Search for a Postconflict Stability Force
  97. Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel
  98. Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet
  99. Experiment in Occupation: Witness to the Turnabout, Anti-Nazi War to Cold War 1944-1946
  100. The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
  101. Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife
  102. Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, Vol. 3: 1971 to the Present
  103. How Democracies Lose Small Wars: State, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam
  104. Glimmer of a New Leviathan: Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz
  105. The 9/11 Investigations: Staff Reports of the 9/11 Commission: Excerpts from the House-Senate Joint Inquiry Report on 9/11
  106. Superterrorism: Policy Responses. Lawrence Freedman (ed.) (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2002) £14.99, 178pp
  107. War
  108. Prevention, not preemption
  109. The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy
  110. Alamein
  111. Bush at War
  112. Avoiding Armageddon
  113. The Peloponnesian War
  114. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
  115. War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
  116. Fixing Intelligence: For a More Secure America
  117. The Mission: America's Military in the Twenty-First Century
  118. Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991
  119. Biological Warfare and Disarmament: New Problems/New Perspectives
  120. Asymmetrical Warfare: Today's Challenge to U.S. Military Power
  121. Modernizing China's Military: Progress, Problems, and Prospects
  122. Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations
  123. Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
  124. Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History
  125. War, Science, and Terrorism: From Laboratory to Open Conflict
  126. Yellow Smoke: The Future of Land Warfare for America's Military
  127. The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy
  128. Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930
  129. Strategy for Chaos: Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Evidence of History
  130. The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century
  131. Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage
  132. Images of Terror: What We Can and Can't Know about Terrorism
  133. Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War
  134. Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance
  135. Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919-1939
  136. The Illusion of Control: Force and Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century
  137. Battle: A History of Combat and Culture from Ancient Greece to Modern America
  138. Not the Slightest Chance: The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941
  139. All the Way with JFK? Britain, the US, and the Vietnam War (review)
  140. Making War, Thinking History: Munich, Vietnam, and Presidential Uses of Force from Korea to Kosovo (review)
  141. The Generation of Trust: How the U.S. Military Has Regained the Public's Confidence since Vietnam
  142. Introduction
  143. The Coming War on Terrorism
  144. Panel discussion: Twenty years on: The Falklands war in perspective
  145. Calling the Shots: Should Politicians or Generals Run Our Wars?
  146. Spencer Mawby, Containing Germany: Britain and the Arming of the Federal Republic. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan Press, 1999. 244 pp. $65.00.
  147. The Third World War?
  148. Victims and victors: reflections on the Kosovo War
  149. Introduction
  150. Britain and the revolution in military affairs
  151. International Security: Changing Targets
  152. Robert H. Paterson. Britain's Strategic Nuclear Deterrent: From before the V-Bomber to beyond the Trident. London: Frank Cass & Co.; dist. by ISBS, Portland, Oreg. 1997. Pp. xiii, 194. $45.00. ISBN 071464740-3.
  153. The defence review‐international policy options
  154. Nuclear Designs: Great Britain, France and China in the Global Governance of Nuclear Arms.
  155. Political Parties and the European Union Edited by John Gaffney Routledge, London, 1996 (340 pages). £45.00, hardback (ISBN 0-415-09059-8); £13.99, softback (ISBN 0-415-09060-1)
  156. The CIA and the soviet threat: The politicization of estimates, 1966–1977
  157. The influence of ideas on British defence policy
  158. Savage Peace: Americans at War in the 1990s.
  159. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam.
  160. Vietnam and the Disillusioned Strategist
  161. Taken by Storm: The Media, Public Opinion, and US Foreign Policy in the Gulf War.
  162. Alliance and the British way in warfare
  163. Race to the swift
  164. Power and insecurity in Europe
  165. The Art of Conflict Prevention.
  166. Great Powers, Vital Interests and Nuclear Weapons
  167. Weak states and the west
  168. Book reviews
  169. Why the West Failed
  170. Strategic studies and the new Europe
  171. Lessons of the Gulf War
  172. The professional and political context of security studies
  173. Nuclear Strategy and Asia
  174. War, Strategy and International Politics: Essays in Honor of Sir Michael Howard
  175. The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America's Purpose.
  176. Imbalances of power
  177. Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War.
  178. The Gulf war and the new world order
  179. Order and Disorder in the New World
  180. How Kuwait Was Won: Strategy in the Gulf War
  181. Escalators and Quagmires: Expectations and the Use of Force
  182. Potential European instability: An historical perspective
  183. Fateful visions: Avoiding nuclear catastrophe
  184. Risky business
  185. SDI and stability: the role of assumptions and perceptions
  186. The politics of conventional arms control
  187. General deterrence and the balance of power
  188. The evolution and future of extended nuclear deterrence
  189. Wars of the Third Kind: Conflicts in Underdeveloped Countries.
  190. The future of American strategy
  191. Managing Alliances
  192. I Exist; Therefore I Deter
  193. An Introduction to Strategic Studies: Military Technology and International Relations.
  194. Strategic defence in the nuclear age: Introduction
  195. The literature on the Falklands conflict, 1982
  196. Soviet Military Policy Since World War II.
  197. Congress, Parliament and Defence: The Impact of Legislative Reform on Defense Accountability in Britain and America.
  198. Consent, coercion and the application of military power
  199. DEFENCE POLICY AFTER THE NEXT ELECTION
  200. Intelligence operations in the Falklands
  201. Star Wars and the Summit
  202. International verification arrangements
  203. Israel's Nuclear Arsenal.
  204. Limiting Nuclear Proliferation.
  205. The Geography of Peace and War.
  206. The Case of Westland and the Bias to Europe
  207. A Game for High Stakes: Lessons Learned in Negotiating with the Soviet Union.
  208. Verification technologies: The case for surveillance by consent
  209. National interests and the military uses of space
  210. British nuclear targeting
  211. The ‘star wars’ debate: The Western alliance and strategic defence: Part II
  212. A new strategic revolution?
  213. Preventing Nuclear War: A Realistic Approach.
  214. Weapons, doctrines, and arms control
  215. Indignation, Influence and Strategic Studies
  216. The super powers and regional tension: the USSR, the United States and Western Europe William Griffith
  217. Arms control and defence postures in the 1980s edited by Richard Burt
  218. The strategist's vocation
  219. Arms Control: No Hiding Place
  220. The Soviet Estimate: US Intelligence Analysis and Russian Military Strength.
  221. Bridgehead Revisited: The Literature of the Falklands
  222. Europe and the ABM revival
  223. The War of the Falkland Islands, 1982
  224. The Atlantic Crisis
  225. The Three Per Cent Solution and the Future of NATO.
  226. Britain: The First Ex-Nuclear Power?
  227. NATO Myths
  228. The dilemma of theatre nuclear arms control
  229. Verification and SALT: The Challenge of Strategic Deception.
  230. Contemporary Security Policy and the British nuclear deterrent
  231. The rationale for medium‐sized deterrence forces
  232. The effects of nuclear war
  233. Endgame: The Inside Story of SALT II.
  234. International Perceptions of the Superpower Military Balance.
  235. The Military in Contemporary Soviet Politics: An Institutional Analysis.
  236. Restraints on War: Studies in the Limitation of Armed Conflict.
  237. Europe without Defence? 48 Hours That Could Change the Face of the World.
  238. Strategic Thought in the Nuclear Age.
  239. The Defence of the Realm in the 1980s.
  240. Arms and Politics 1958-1978: Arms Control in a Changing Political Context.
  241. Intelligence Requirements for the 1980s: Elements of Intelligence.
  242. Time for a reappraisal
  243. The Arms Trade: A Review
  244. Has strategy reached a dead-end?
  245. War: Controlling Escalation.
  246. British Defence Policy in a Changing World.
  247. No Soft Options: The Politico-Military Realities of NATO.
  248. RUSI and Brassey's Defence Yearbook 1977-78.
  249. Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower: A Memoir of the First Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology.
  250. Arms Control and European Security: A Guide to East-West Negotiations.
  251. Arms Control and Technological Innovation.
  252. British Foreign Policy to 1985. IV: Britain and the Arms Trade
  253. Deterrence: A Conceptual Analysis.
  254. The strategy of Hiroshima
  255. Beyond Nuclear Deterrence: New Aims, New Arms.
  256. The consequences of failure in SALT
  257. European Security: The Prospect of Change
  258. The Future of Soviet Military Power.
  259. The Arms Bazaar: The Companies, The Dealers, the Bribes: From Vickers to Lockheed.
  260. British Foreign Policy to 1985. II: Britain's Contribution to Nato
  261. Nuclear Proliferation and the Near-Nuclear Countries.
  262. Reviews of Books
  263. The Soviet Union and ‘anti‐space defence’
  264. Logic, Politics and Foreign Policy Processes: A Critique of the Bureaucratic Politics Model
  265. Israel's nuclear policy
  266. The age of liberal wars