Books in the Cass Military Studies series

Examines intelligence's role in shaping America's perception of the Vietnam war and looks closely at the intelligence leadership and decision process in Vietnam.

Examines the idea of military integration in Europe by elaborating on the possible size and composition of a 'European army' and assessing in detail how it can be achieved. This book is suitable for students of military studies, European Politics and Strategic Studies.

Features documents, that were collected from the archives in Rostov-on-Don, and appear here, with commentary from the author. The Soviet archives have provided a rich source for understanding the hopes, fears and strivings of the Russians during the greatest crisis in their history.

The myth of the Israeli paratroopers at the beginning of the 1950s and their heroic deeds in the reprisal raids embodied the new Zionist ethos. This book provides insight into some of the most intractable developments of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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.

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.

This book explores Adolf Hitler's career as a soldier in World War I and looks at the influences that led to his fanatical nationalism as a political leader.

Shows how national strategies to warfare are culturally determined. These ideas have gained acceptance among historians but remain controversial for political scientists, as political scientists have focused on strategic culture and historians on ways of war. This work helps both audiences and provides them with each others ideas.

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.

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.

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.

The first complete study of Cuban involvement in the Angolan War, from the first contacts in the 1960s to the full-scale military occupation of the 1980s

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.

Employing an interdisciplinary methodology and comparative case studies, this book focuses on the key issues that affect military families when soldiers are deployed overseas.

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

Researching the Military aims to contribute to a greater reflexivity in the field of military studies, by focusing on the experiences of researchers who study the military around the world.

This interdisciplinary book aims to address the historical questions of what roles have civilians played in warfare and how has civilian participation changed over time?

The aim of this book is to analyse the ways that liberalism determines the military capacities of West European societies.