Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction
Distilling the ideas of the greatest military theoreticians of history, including Sun Tzu, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Carl von Clausewitz, Antulio […]
A nation must think before it acts.
National Security Program
Civil-Military Relations in Russia and Eastern Europe
This book examines how civil-military relations have been transformed in Russia, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine since the collapse of the […]
Cyberspace and the State: Towards a Strategy for Cyber-Power
The major aim of Cyberspace and the State is to provide conceptual orientation on the new strategic environment of the Information Age. […]
Carnage and Connectivity: Landmarks in the Decline of Conventional Military Power
The burgeoning of global connectivity in recent decades is without historical parallel and the ‘wiring up’ of the world continues […]
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, Lieutenant Colonel […]
Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News
The author, FPRI’s Clint Watts, has been at the forefront in exposing Russian influence operations in social media — after spending a decade tracking jihadis online. He now sums up his work in this new book, Messing with the Enemy, while offering recommendations on how best to defeat our adversaries. His testimony on Capitol Hill in March 2017 electrified the country and overnight he became a regular commentator on MSNBC. He is a former FBI Special Agent who served on a Joint Terrorism Task Force.
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Security
This Handbook breaks new ground by addressing global security through the lens of religion and examining the role religion plays […]
Departure of Bossert Reveals “Boltonization” of National Security Council
Yesterday, Thomas P. Bossert, the President’s Homeland Security Advisor, abruptly resigned from his post. It came as a surprise to homeland security observers and to Bossert himself. Speaking at the Cipher Brief’s 2018 Threat Conference in Sea Island, Georgia, Bossert gave no hint that his departure was mere hours away. What the Bossert exit represents is a rapid move by Bolton to put his own imprimatur upon the National Security Council.
Collective Security without an Alliance: Finland’s Defense Relationship with Sweden
Recent concerns over Russian aggression have led countries all around the Baltic Sea to take their security more seriously. Poland certainly has; Sweden has, too. Those concerns have also driven Sweden closer to Finland. A country well-accustomed to the threat from Russia, Finland fought two major wars against the Soviet Union, Russia’s twentieth-century incarnation. Despite pulling off many incredible battlefield successes, Finland lost both the Winter War (1939-1940) and the Continuation War (1941-1944). And after each Finnish defeat, the Soviet Union annexed territory whose terrain could present natural obstacles to a future Russian invasion, leaving Finland in an ever more vulnerable position.