Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies provides a comprehensive collection of essays on contemporary defence studies by leading international scholars.
Defence studies is a multi-disciplinary study of how agents, predominantly states, prepare for and go to war. Whereas security studies has been broadened and stretched to cover at times the near totality of international and domestic affairs, and war studies has come to mean not just operations and tactics but also experiences and outcomes, defence studies remains a coherent area of study primarily aimed at how defence policy changes over time and in relation to stimulating factors such as alterations in power, strategy and technology. This new Handbook offers a complete landscape of this area of study and contributes to a review of defence studies in terms of policy, security and war, but also looks forward to new challenges to existing conceptions of defence and how this is changing as states and their militaries also change. The volume is divided into four thematic sections: Defence as Policy; Defence Practice; Operations and Tactics; and Contemporary Defence Issues. The ability to review the field while also looking forward to further research is an important element of a sustainable text on defence studies. In as much as this volume is able to highlight the main themes of defence studies, it also offers an in-depth look into how defence issues can be examined and compared in a contemporary setting.
This Handbook will be of great interest to students of defence studies, strategic studies, war studies, security studies and IR.
Contents
Introduction, David J. Galbreath and John R. Deni Part I: Defence as Policy 1. Defence as Policy, Trevor Taylor 2. Defence as War, Olivier Schmitt 3. Defence as Security, Hannah E. Dönges and Stephanie C. Hofmann 4. Methods in Defence Studies, Delphine Deschaux-Dutard Part II: Defence Practice 5. Defence Budgets, Keith Hartley 6. Defence Procurement, Matthew Uttley 7. Recruiting and Retention to Sustain a Volunteer Military Force, Beth J. Asch and John T. Warner 8. Professional Military Education, Victoria Syme-Taylor and Duraid Jalili 9. Military Logistics, Mahyar Amouzegar 10. Military Doctrine, Harald Høiback 11. Strategy, Thomas G. Mahnken 12. Defence Strategic Culture: Between Power and Rules, Julian Lindley-French 13. Civil-Military Relations, Birthe Anders Part III: Operations and Tactics 14. Land Warfare, Christopher Tuck 15. Air Warfare, Viktoriya Fedorchak 16. Naval Warfare, Alessio Patalano 17. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency, Celeste Ward Gventer 18. Nuclear Warfare and Deterrence, John Friend and Bradley A. Thayer 19. Cyber Warfare, Chris Bronk 20. Joint Combined Operations, Thomas Drohan 21. Peace Operations and 'no peace to keep', Berma Klein Goldewijk and Joseph Soeters 22. Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Adam D.M. Svendsen Part IV: Contemporary Defence Issues 23. Public Opinion and Defence, Bastian Giegerich 24. The Role of Private Military Corporations in Defence, Mark Erbel and Christopher Kinsey 25. Resilience, Security and Defence, Brett Edwards 26. Military Transformation, Peter Dombrowski 27. Military Robots and Drones, Ulrike Esther Franke 28. Military Alliances, James Sperling 29. Security Assistance, John R. Deni 30. Future War, Manabrata Guha
