London: Routledge; Taylor & Francis, 2025. — 525 p. The Military Balance has been published since 1959. The 2025 edition provides an open-source assessment of the armed forces and equipment inventories of over 170 countries, with accompanying defense economics data. In addition to detailed country data, The Military Balance includes graphics to illustrate defence personnel,...
The MITRE Corporation, Federally Funded Strategic Planning Research Center (Sponsor: U.S. European Command), Timothy Thomas, McLean, VA, December 2019. — 84 p. Executive Summaries Russian Lessons Learned in Syria Leader Comments Spetsnaz, Urban, and Private Military Company Operations Weapons Testing Military Art Tactical Changes Due to Combat Experiences Logistics, Engineer,...
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense), Dennis Evans, Barry Hannah, Jonathan Schwalbe. — Laurel, MD, January 2019. — 47 p. Figures Tables Arms-Control Treaties and the Definition of Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons Desirable Characteristics of Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons Current Nuclear Weapons and Regional Imbalances The...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 144 p. Distilling the ideas of the greatest military theoreticians of history, including Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Carl von Clausewitz, Antulio J. Echevarria II presents a fascinating account of the "art of the general". Drawing on historical examples, from Hannibal's war against Rome to Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz, from the Allies'...
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2009. — 456 p., 34 photos, maps, charts. The planning that allowed for the successful amphibious landings at the end of World War II actually began during the 1880s as the Marine Corps sought to define its role in the new Steel Navy. Officers braved skepticism, indifference and outright opposition to develop an amphibious...
Washington: Heritage Foundation, 2020. — 536 p. Executive Summary Treating the Pathologies of Victory: Hardening the Nation for Strategic Competition Being Realistic About Strategy Pragmatism, Populism, and How Americans Think About Investing in Defense The Economic Dimension of Great-Power Competition and the Role of Cyber as a Key Strategic Weapon The Competitive Advantages...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. — 768 p. In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives. The range of Freedman's narrative is extraordinary,...
Westport: Praeger, 2000. — 228 p. The author of this study argues that nuclear weapons and the psychology of nuclear deterrence will remain important after 2000, but the character of that importance will change. Advanced technology conventional weapons based on information and electronics become more strategically important. Nuclear History and its Lessons. Limited War in the...
Georgetown University Press, 2018. — 344 p. — ISBN: 1626166234. Military Strategy, Joint Operations, and Airpower will introduce readers to contemporary strategy and the operational level of war, particularly as it relates to airpower. This intermediate textbook was developed as required reading for all US Air Force Academy cadets, and is designed to close the gap between...
Georgetown University Press, 2018. — 344 p. — ISBN: 1626166234. Military Strategy, Joint Operations, and Airpower will introduce readers to contemporary strategy and the operational level of war, particularly as it relates to airpower. This intermediate textbook was developed as required reading for all US Air Force Academy cadets, and is designed to close the gap between...
Artech House, 2007. — 562 p. — (Artech House Information Warfare Library). — ISBN10: 1596931981. Out-of-print and out of the hands of military professionals for years, Artech House answers the demand, making the sought-after, classic work, Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War, available once again. This timeless and widely cited volume offers professionals a model and...
Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Political Science Department, 2013. — 302 p. Military strategy was long described as atheoretical — an art that could only be fully comprehended by military genius. This contention is no...
Foreign Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, 2015. — 460 p. Russia is a nation that has always been blessed with creative minds, whether it be literary giants like Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy, artists such as Peter Carl Faberge, composers such as Pyotr Tchaikovsky, or the military genius of an Aleksander Svechin or Aleksander Suvorov. Russia also has been blessed with the...
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017. — 127 p. An expert examination of the asymmetric strategies that are being pursued today by America's main state-based adversaries, and the implications for the United States. For the United States, asymmetric warfare has emerged as the “new normal.” The large-scale conventional campaigns that typified U.S. military engagements for...
The US army college guide to National security issues, 2010. — 385 p. Strategic Theory The Elements of Power The Policy Continuum Strategic and Operational Art Strategic Appraisal Process Gain and Risk Assessment Components of Security Policy Interaction with the Analysts John Warden’s Five Ring Model Economics: A Key Element of National Power Strategic Issues and Considerations
Small Wars Journal. — January 17, 2011. Contemporary discourse on counterinsurgency is voluminous and often contentious, but to date there has been a dearth of systematic evidence supporting the various counterinsurgency (COIN) approaches advocated by various discussants. This analysis is based on all insurgencies worldwide begun and concluded between 1978 and 2008; 30...
Skeptic Journal Article. — Mar 3 2016. In this short article Dr. Christopher Paul reviews these various concepts and what he views as their shortcomings, but he also tries to tease out what autor thinks they contribute that is important: That we are party to a host of conflicts and competitions that take place in the space between peace and war, that they are contested with...