Strategic Theory Books

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31. Information Strategy and Warfare

    A Guide to Theory and Practice

    Edited by John Arquilla, Douglas A. Borer

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This volume develops information strategy as a construct equal in importance to military strategy as an influential tool of statecraft. John Arquilla and Douglas A. Borer explore three principal themes: the rise of the ‘information domain’ and information strategy as an equal partner alongside...

    Published June 25th 2009 by Routledge
32. The German 1918 Offensives

    A Case Study in The Operational Level of War

    By David T. Zabecki

    Series: Strategy and History

    This is the first study of the Ludendorff Offensives of 1918 based extensively on key German records presumed to be lost forever after Potsdam was bombed in 1944. In 1997, David T. Zabecki discovered translated copies of these files in a collection of old instructional material at the U.S. Army...

    Published June 25th 2009 by Routledge
33. Handbook of Intelligence Studies

    Edited by Loch K. Johnson

    This topical volume offers a comprehensive review of secret intelligence organizations and activities. Intelligence has been in the news consistently since 9/11 and the Iraqi WMD errors. Leading experts in the field approach the three major missions of intelligence: collection-and-analysis;...

    Published April 8th 2009 by Routledge
34. The Strategy of Terrorism

    How it Works, and Why it Fails

    By Peter R. Neumann, M.L.R. Smith

    Series: Contemporary Terrorism Studies

    This is the first book to set out a comprehensive framework by which to understand terrorism as strategy. It contends that even terrorism of the supposedly nihilist variety can be viewed as a bona fide method for distributing means to fulfil the ends of policy, that is, as a strategy. The main...

    Published March 4th 2009 by Routledge
35. Global Insurgency and the Future of Armed Conflict

    Debating Fourth-Generation Warfare

    Edited by Regina Karp, Aaron Karp, Terry Terriff

    Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

    This volume covers a timely debate in contemporary security studies: can armed forces adjust to the rising challenge of insurgency and terrorism, the greatest transformation in warfare since the birth of the international system? Containing essays by leading international security scholars...

    Published February 18th 2009 by Routledge
36. Network Centric Warfare and Coalition Operations

    The New Military Operating System

    By Paul T. Mitchell

    Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

    This book argues that Network Centric Warfare (NCW) influences how developed militaries operate in the same fashion that an operating system influences the development of computer software. It examines three inter-related issues: the overwhelming military power of the United States; the growing...

    Published February 4th 2009 by Routledge
37. Theoretical Roots of US Foreign Policy

    Machiavelli and American Unilateralism

    By Thomas M. Kane

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This volume explores the reasons why American leaders from the 1700s onwards frequently adopt policies of unilateralism. Thomas M. Kane presents fresh explanations for America’s invasion of Iraq and defiance of international agreements, which go much deeper than conventional critiques of...

    Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
38. Strategic Culture and Ways of War

    By Lawrence Sondhaus

    Series: Cass Military Studies

    A much-needed survey and synopsis of literature on strategic culture and ways of war. It clearly shows how national strategies and approaches to warfare are, to a significant extent, culturally determined. The concept of national ‘ways of war’ dates from the 1930s, when Basil H. Liddell Hart...

    Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
39. America, the EU and Strategic Culture

    Renegotiating the Transatlantic Bargain

    By Asle Toje

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This book provides a provocative analysis of relations between Europe and America during the tempestuous years 1998-2004. Analysing EU foreign policy, it concludes that the lessons learnt in interacting with America have been crucial in shaping the emerging EU strategic culture. The book...

    Published November 29th 2008 by Routledge
40. Naval Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Operations

    Stability from the Sea

    Edited by James J. Wirtz, Jeffrey A. Larsen

    Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

    This edited volume explores stability, security, transition and reconstruction operations (SSTR), highlighting the challenges and opportunities they create for the US Navy. The book argues that SSTR operations are challenging because they create new missions and basing modes, and signal a return...

    Published November 6th 2008 by Routledge