First Strike

Preemptive War in Modern History

By Matthew J. Flynn

Preemptive warfare is the practice of attempting to avoid an enemy’s seemingly imminent attack by taking military action against them first. It is undertaken in...

Published May 5th 2008 by Routledge.

The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

By Martin Gilbert

The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces not only the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Jewish struggle from the early twentieth century to...

Published March 27th 2008 by Routledge.

Ezra A. Carman’s Definitive Study of the Union and Confederate Armies at Antietam

Edited by Joseph Pierro

Completed in the early 1900s, The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 is still the essential source for anyone seeking understanding of the bloodiest day in...

Published March 24th 2008 by Routledge.

Strategic Studies

A Reader

Edited by Thomas Mahnken, Joseph A. Maiolo

This new Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors in the field.

Filling a large gap in the market,...

Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.

Exploring Intelligence Archives

Enquiries into the Secret State

Edited by R. Gerald Hughes, Peter Jackson, Len Scott

This edited volume brings together many of the world’s leading scholars of intelligence with a number of former senior practitioners to facilitate a wide-ranging dialogue...

Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.

The Tet Offensive

A Brief History with Documents

Edited by William Thomas Allison

With Americans turning against the war in ever greater numbers, struggles for power between the government and the military, and no end in sight to...

Published March 18th 2008 by Routledge.

A Transatlantic History

By Matt Schumann, Karl W. Schweizer

The Seven Years War has been described as the first global conflict in history. It engulfed the Euro-Atlantic world from 1756 to 1763, and engaged...

Published March 10th 2008 by Routledge.

From Mercenaries to Privatization, 1815–2007

Edited by Donald Stoker

This volume presents a number of case studies of military advisors and missions in order to provide clear historical examples of the evolution, functioning and...

Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge.

Edited by Kevin Blackburn, Karl Hack

Experiences of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia varied enormously. Some prisoners of war (POWs) were sent to work in Japan, others to toil on the ‘Death...

Published December 14th 2007 by Routledge.

By David J. Lonsdale

This book offers a strategic analysis of one of the most outstanding military careers in history, identifying the most pertinent strategic lessons from the campaigns...

Published December 6th 2007 by Routledge.