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  • Conventional Maritime Deterrence

    The Operational Foundations of Influence at Sea

    by Adam Lockyer ...
    A conceptual framework for understanding the critical role of naval operations in deterrence strategiesA future clash between the United States and China would occur across the seas, islands, and peninsulas of the Indo-Pacific region. Thus, mastering maritime deterrence—creating and displaying naval power to discourage an attack—is vital for peace.Conventional Maritime Deterrence revives and ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Geopolitics, Military Modernisation and the Future of the Indo-Pacific

    by Bates Gill, Adam Lockyer, Yves-Heng Lim, Andrew T. H. Tan ...
    Series series Emerging Technologies, Ethics and International Affairs
    This book examines to what extent geopolitics explains the current wave of force modernisation in the Indo-Pacific region. Examining the leading Indo-Pacific nations in terms of defence spending: the United States, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, Pakistan, Indonesia and Thailand, geopolitical principles are used to create hypotheses that can be tested against the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Australia's Defence Strategy

    Evaluating Alternatives for a Contested Asia

    by Adam Lockyer ...
    How would we know a good defence strategy if we saw one? The Asian Century is challenging many of the traditional assumptions at the heart of Australian defence policy and strategy. Defence scholars have risen to the challenge of these transformational times and have collectively produced a smorgasbord of alternatives for policy-makers. The problem is that these recommendations all point in very ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Foreign Intervention, Warfare and Civil Wars

    External Assistance and Belligerents' Choice of Strategy

    by Adam Lockyer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Civil Wars and Intra-State Conflict
    This book examines the impact of foreign intervention in the course and nature of warfare in civil wars.Throughout history, foreign intervention in civil wars has been the rule rather than the exception. The involvement of outside powers can have a dramatic impact on the course and nature of internal conflicts. Despite this, there has been little research which has sought to explain how foreign ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Defending the Lion City

    The armed forces of Singapore

    by Tim Huxley ...
    Series series THE ARMED FORCES OF ASIA
    Singapore is located in the heart of the Muslim Malay world, yet 78 per cent of its population is ethnically Chinese. The prosperous city-state relies on outside sources for virtually all its water and food; it has no access to the high seas, on which it depends for 85 per cent of its trade, except through its neighbours' waters. Physically linked to Malaysia by a causeway and a bridge, only ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Rising Sun Victorious

    Alternate Histories of the Pacific War

    Edited by Peter G. Tsouras ...
    In war, victory can be held hostage to seemingly insignificant incidentschance events, opportunities seized or cast asidethat can derail the most brilliant military strategies and change the course of history. What if the Japanese had conquered India and driven out the British? What if the strategic link between the United States and Australia had been severed? What if Vice Admiral Nagumo had ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Echidna Strategy

    Australia's Search for Power and Peace

    by Sam Roggeveen ...
    In the wake of a shift in the global power balance, how can Australia best protect itself?The Echidna Strategy overturns the conventional wisdom about Australia's security. Australia will need to defend itself without American help, but this doesn't need to cost more.The truth, which no Australian political leader is willing to confront, is that America's security is not threatened by China's rise ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Who Can Hold the Sea

    The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960

    by James D. Hornfischer ...
    **A close-up, action-filled account of the crucial role the U.S. Navy played in the early years of the Cold War, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fleet at Flood Tide and The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors“A lucid, fast-moving and fitting finale to [Hornfischer’s] career.”—The Wall Street Journal**A landmark chronicle of the U.S. Navy in the Cold War, Who Can Hold the Sea ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Hirohito's War

    The Pacific War, 1941-1945

    by Dr Francis Pike ...
    Named one of Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2016In his magisterial 1,208 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pike's Hirohito's War offers an original interpretation, balancing the existing Western-centric view with attention to the Japanese perspective on the conflict. As well as giving a 'blow-by-blow' account of campaigns and battles, Francis Pike offers many challenges to the standard ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The Direction of War

    Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective

    by Hew Strachan ...
    The wars since 9/11, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated frustration and an increasing sense of failure in the West. Much of the blame has been attributed to poor strategy. In both the United States and the United Kingdom, public enquiries and defence think tanks have detected a lack of consistent direction, of effective communication, and of governmental coordination. In this important ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Refighting the Pacific War

    An Alternative History of World War II

    Edited by James C Bresnahan ...
    Refighting the Pacific War looks at how World War II in the Pacific might have unfolded differently, giving historians, authors and veterans the opportunity to discuss what happened and what might have happened. Contributors to this alternative history include noted military historians William Bartsch, John Burton, Donald Goldstein, John Lundstrom, Robert Mrazek, Jon Parshall, Douglas Smith, Peter ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Future War and the Defence of Europe

    by John R. Allen, Frederick Ben Hodges, Julian Lindley-French ...
    Future War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will inevitably accelerate some key global dynamics already in play, the book goes on to weave history, strategy, policy, and technology into a ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook