Bøger i Cass Military Studies serien

This book offers an examination of the effectiveness of Western military interventions in the post-Cold War era.

This volume of case studies examines the rise in violent extremism, terrorism, and insurgency in South and South East Asia, and subsequent state responses.

This book examines the methodology of qualitative research in military studies.

Leaders in War provides first-person perspectives across the spectrum of American combat operations during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

Citizenship is a key concept in Western political thought for defining the individual's relations with society. This title explores the theoretical and practical implications of war and terror situations for citizenship in democratic states. It is suitable for students of military studies, political science, IR and security studies.

This book deals with the processes and theories involved in managing military organisations in both peacetime and crisis conditions.

Explores the impact of different civil-military structures on operational effectiveness in complex peace operations. This book argues that the civil-military interface should ideally be integrated within the interagency arena as well as within the defence ministry.

Offers a sociological snapshot of American soldiers in Iraq, analyzing their collective narratives in relation to the military sociology tradition. This book provides the reader with both a generalized and a deep view into a major social institution in American society and its relative constituents - 'the military and soldiers' - during a war.

Presents a number of case studies of military advisors and missions in order to provide clear historical examples of the evolution, functioning and motives of foreign military advising in the modern era. This book contains essays by US contributors covering a range of countries and spanning nearly 200 years of history.

Provides an interdisciplinary overview of PMSCs: what they are, why they have emerged, how they operate, their military, political, social and economic impact, and the moral and legal constraints that do and should apply to their operation. This book focuses upon normative issues raised by the development of PMSCs.

Using theoretical overviews and empirical case studies, this volume explores how soldiers cope with the new forms of cultural diversity occurring within various multinational military operations, and how their organizations manage them. It is suitable for students of peace operations, military studies, international security, and business studies.

Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) is the relationship between militaries and humanitarians. This book demonstrates the wide variety of national approaches to CIMIC activities, introducing some theoretical and ethical considerations into a field that has been bereft of this type of debate.

Featuring an analysis of the role of embedded media in the 2003 Iraq War, this work provides a history of US military public affairs management since Vietnam. It also introduces a model of organizational learning and redraws the US military's learning curve in public affairs from Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Somalia, the Balkans to Afghanistan.

Analyses the influences of ideas of honour on the causes, conduct, and endings of wars from Ancient Greece through to the war in Iraq. This book reveals that the contradictory behaviour of soldiers during war is a product of the contradictions inherent in the concept of honour. It is for students of military ethics, military history, and more.

Re-examines the challenges faced by the military profession in the aftermath of the international terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. This book shows that the military must respond effectively to the twenty-first century strategic landscape, while undergoing the revolution in military affairs and transformation.

This comparative study looks at how democratic control of the military functions in practice in Europe. This is essential reading for students of civil-military relations, democratization, European politics and security studies in general.

Presents a cross-national study of the participation of women in the armed forces of NATO countries. This study employs mixed-methodological research design combining quantitative and qualitative data - a large N-analysis based on general policies and statistical information concerning every country in the sample with more in-depth case-studies.

Provides first-person perspectives across the spectrum of American combat operations during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. From division commanders to platoon leaders, the authors offer an insider's view of tough leadership challenges, tragic failures, and triumphant victories.

With case studies ranging from the Revolutionary War to the war in Iraq, this book shows how and why the US military is caught between two civilian masters - the President and Congress - in responding to the challenges of warfighting, rearmament, and transformation. It looks at how warriors and politicians interacted at key points in US history.

Although each state is unique, it is possible to identify certain common problems and issues with respect to defence governance and management. Intended for students of armed forces and defence management, politics and strategic and military studies, this work introduces the basic principles of governance and defence management.

Presents the reader with an international view of interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary approaches to military and conflict-resolution studies. This book offers an analysis of the aspects and trends of the social sciences in studying the military. It contains essays by some of the most highly regarded scholars on the subject.

Although each state is unique, it is possible to identify certain common problems and issues with respect to defence governance and management. Intended for students of armed forces and defence management, politics and strategic and military studies, this work introduces the basic principles of governance and defence management.

Explores the nexus between railways and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), in which the railways played a key part. This book also examines some of the key dimensions of the Russo-Japanese War, most notably how uncomfortably technological and human dimensions of Russia's war effort interleaved in the course of the conflict.