Military Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Syria’s Uprising and the Fracturing of the Levant

   By Emile Hokayem

   Series: Adelphi series

   As an upbeat and peaceful uprising quickly and brutally descended into a zero-sum civil war, Syria has crumbled from a regional player into an arena in which a multitude of local and foreign actors compete. The volatile regional fault lines that run through Syria have ruptured during this conflict,...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Chinese Industrial Espionage

   Technology Acquisition and Military Modernisation

   By William C. Hannas, James Mulvenon, Anna B. Puglisi

   Series: Asian Security Studies

   This new book is the first full account, inside or outside government, of China’s efforts to acquire foreign technology. Based on primary sources and meticulously researched, the book lays bare China’s efforts to prosper technologically through others' achievements. For decades, China has operated...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Ethics and the Laws of War

   The Moral Justification of Legal Norms

   By Antony Lamb

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This book is an examination of the permissions, prohibitions and obligations found in just war theory, and the moral grounds for laws concerning war. Pronouncing an action or course of actions to be prohibited, permitted or obligatory by just war theory does not thereby establish the moral grounds...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
4. Understanding Military Doctrine

   A Multidisciplinary Approach

   By Harald Hoiback

   Series: Cass Military Studies

   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...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. Cluster Munitions and International Law

   Disarmament With a Human Face?

   By Alexander Breitegger

   Series: Routledge Research in the Law of Armed Conflicts

   This book offers a comprehensive argument for why pre-existing international law on cluster munitions was inadequate to deal with the full scope of humanitarian consequences associated with their use. The book undertakes an interdisciplinary legal analysis of restraints and prohibitions on the use...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
6. Private Contractors and the Reconstruction of Iraq

   Transforming Military Logistics

   By Christopher Kinsey

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   Private Contractors and the Reconstruction of Iraq examines the controversial role of military contractors in the reconstruction of Iraq. When 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' was launched in March 2003, few, if any, of the Coalition's political leaders could have envisaged that within a few months the...

   Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
7. War in International Society

   By Lacy Pejcinovic

   Series: New International Relations

   Is war an institution of international society and how is it constituted as such across the evolution of international society? This book is an inquiry into the purpose of war as a social institution, as originally put forward by Hedley Bull. It offers a comprehensive examination of what is...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
8. Controlling the Weapons of War

   Politics, Persuasion, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity

   By Brian Rappert

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   A fresh examination of the ethical and intellectual issues and dilemmas associated with attempts to establish formal humanitarian limits on weaponry. This new study considers how governments, non-governmental organizations, academics, political commentators and others have responded to...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. Soviet Air Force Theory, 1918-1945

   By James Sterrett

   Series: Soviet (Russian) Study of War

   This new book examines the development of Soviet thinking on the operational employment of their Air Force from 1918 to 1945, using Soviet theoretical writings and contemporary analyses of combat actions....

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. Military Health Care

    From Pre-Deployment to Post-Separation

    Edited by Jomana Amara, Ann M. Hendricks

    Series: Cass Military Studies

    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...

    Published March 12th 2013 by Routledge