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Forthcoming Strategic History Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. British Ways of Counter-insurgency

    A Historical Perspective

    Edited by Matthew Hughes

    This edited collection examines the British ‘way’ in counter-insurgency. It brings together and consolidates new scholarship on the counter-insurgency associated with the end of empire, foregrounding a dark and violent history of British imperial rule, one that stretched back to the nineteenth...

    To Be Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge

  2. The Encyclopedia of Codenames of World War II (Routledge Revivals)

    By Christopher Chant

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    Codenames were a vital feature of World War II, serving as mental shorthand for those in the know, and obscuring the issues for those who were not. Codenames were used from the highest level, in the planning of grand strategic moves affecting the conduct of the whole war, to the lowest command...

    To Be Published August 22nd 2013 by Routledge

  3. U.S. Military Strategy in the Gulf (Routledge Revivals)

    Origins and Evolution Under the Carter and Reagan Administrations

    By Amitav Acharya

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1989, this title explores the nature and dimensions of the U.S. strategy in the Gulf in the formative years that followed the fall of the Shah, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war. It describes the formation of the U.S. Rapid Deployment Joint...

    To Be Published September 8th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Propaganda and Intelligence in the Cold War

    The NATO Information Service

    By Linda Risso

    Series: Studies in Intelligence

    This book is an account of the foundation, organisation and activities of the NATO Information Service (NATIS) during the Cold War, and the first attempt to explore the interaction between intelligence and propaganda within an international organisation....

    To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Technology and the Mid-Victorian Royal Navy

    Ironclads and Naval Innovation

    By Howard J. Fuller

    Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

    A revealing new examination of Palmerstonian diplomacy during the pivotal decade of the 1860s, the evolution of the modern capital ship and the real nature of ‘empire’, ‘technology’ and ‘seapower’. In contrast to the standard image of the mid-Victorian Royal navy as all-powerful, Howard Fuller...

    To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

  6. The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War

    Edited by Artemy Kalinovsky, Craig Daigle

    This new Handbook offers a wide-ranging overview of current scholarship on the Cold War, with essays from many leading and emerging scholars. The last twenty years have seen a number of conceptual and methodological innovations that have transformed what it means to study the Cold War, and this&...

    To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Strategic Studies

    A Reader, 2nd Edition

    Edited by Thomas Mahnken, Joseph Maiolo

    This Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field - this revised edition contains several new essays and revised introductions to each section. The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest...

    To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Geopolitics for the 21st Century

    Addressing National Insecurities

    Edited by Leonard Hochberg, James D. Hardy Jr.

    Series: Geopolitical Theory

    This edited volume assesses the geopolitical configuration of forces in the international arena at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Since the end of the Cold War, the international arena has entered a period of transition. Although the United States emerged as the victor in the Cold War,...

    To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge

  9. Helmuth Von Moltke

    A Modern Biography

    By Arden Bucholz

    Series: Military History and Policy

    This detailed and comprehensive book offers the first modern biography of Helmuth Von Moltke, a major progenitor of the processes modern great powers use to engage in large-scale warfare. Drawing upon the author’s own previously published works, Moltke, Schlieffen and Prussian War Planning and...

    To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge

  10. Britain's War Plans 1919–1939

    By Steven T. Ross

    Series: Cass Military Studies

    At the end of World War I the British Empire reached its largest extent in terms of territory and population. The government was reluctant to devote large resources to defense and to contemplate sending large forces to Europe in case of a new war. British forces were constantly involved...

    To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge