This book assesses the use of ‘mercenaries’ by states, and their integration into the national armed forces as part of a new hybridisation trend of contemporary armies...
Employing an interdisciplinary methodology and comparative case studies, this book focuses on the key issues that affect military families when soldiers are deployed overseas. _x000D_
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This edited volume surveys critical aspects of modern military health care in the US and various other Western countries with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. ..
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the global diffusion of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) and its impact on military innovation in small states, using comparative case studies from Asia and the Middle East...
This book examines international military interventions that have supported stability in four communities in Afghanistan and Nepal, using village-level field research to analyse their success and suggest improvements for future operations...
This book examines the practices of actors involved in the media reportage of war, and the ways in which these practices may influence the conduct of modern military operations...
This book examines the practices of actors involved in the media reportage of war, and the ways in which these practices may influence the conduct of modern military operations...
This book presents the contemporary history of US military strategy in Afghanistan as an example of dysfunctional policy discourse among the nation’s elites, and offers a series of recommendations to avoid this in future...
This book explores the idea of a ‘revolution in military affairs’ (RMA), which underpins the transformational agenda of the US military, and examines its implications for smaller states...
This book explores the idea of a ‘revolution in military affairs’ (RMA), which underpins the transformational agenda of the US military, and examines its implications for smaller states...