Military, Strategic, and Security Studies Research

Military History and Policy

1. Britain in Vietnam

   Prelude to Disaster, 1945–46

   By Peter Neville

   Series: Military History and Policy

   This book is a study of the circumstances leading to British intervention in Vietnam in 1945, and the course and consequences of this intervention. The first part of the work links French colonialism with the native communist insurgency, while examining British and Foreign Office attitudes towards...

   Published June 27th 2007 by Routledge
2. Ottoman Army Effectiveness in World War I

   A Comparative Study

   By Edward J. Erickson

   Series: Military History and Policy

   This volume examines how the Ottoman Army was able to evolve and maintain a high level of overall combat effectiveness despite the primitive nature of the Ottoman State during the First World War. Structured around four case studies, at the operational and tactical level, of campaigns involving...

   Published January 31st 2007 by Routledge
3. Railways and International Politics

   Paths of Empire, 1848-1945

   Edited by T.G. Otte, Keith Neilson

   Series: Military History and Policy

   This new study brings together leading experts to show how the modern world began with the coming of the railway. They clearly explain why it had a greater impact than any other technical or industrial innovation before and completely redefined the limits of the civilized world. While the effect...

   Published July 26th 2006 by Routledge
4. The Normandy Campaign 1944

   Sixty Years On

   Edited by John Buckley

   Series: Military History and Policy

   With essays from leading names in military history, this new book re-examines the crucial issues and debates of the D-Day campaign. It tackles a range of core topics, placing them in their current historiographical context, to present new and sometimes revisionist interpretations of key issues...

   Published June 14th 2006 by Routledge
5. Big Wars and Small Wars

   The British Army and the Lessons of War in the 20th Century

   Edited by Hew Strachan

   Series: Military History and Policy

   This is a fascinating new insight into the British army and its evolution through both large and small scale conflicts. To prepare for future wars, armies derive lessons from past wars. However, some armies are defeated because they learnt the wrong lessons, fighting new conflicts in ways...

   Published March 1st 2006 by Routledge
6. The Jungle, Japanese and the British Commonwealth Armies at War, 1941-45

   Fighting Methods, Doctrine and Training for Jungle Warfare

   By Tim Moreman

   Series: Military History and Policy

   This book focuses on the British Commonwealth armies in SE Asia and the SW Pacific during the Second World War, which, following the disastrous Malayan and Burma campaigns, had to hurriedly re-train, re-equip and re-organise their demoralised troops to fight a conventional jungle war against the...

   Published April 27th 2005 by Routledge
7. The Evolution of Operational Art, 1740-1813

   From Frederick the Great to Napoleon

   By Claus Telp

   Series: Military History and Policy

   Operational art emerged from the campaigns of Frederick the Great to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. It was the result of three dynamic interrelationships: between military and non-military factors such as social, economic and political developments; between military theory and practice; and...

   Published April 20th 2005 by Routledge