Theory of warfare & military science books

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The Remnants of War

The Remnants of War

Author: John Mueller
ISBN: 9780801442391
Format: Hardback
$152.99

Mueller argues that war is an idea, like dueling or slavery, that has been substantially discredited, reduced to...  Read More >>

Darwin and International Relations: On the Evolutionary Origins of War and Ethnic Conflict

Darwin and International Relations: On the Evolutionary...

Author: Bradley A. Thayer
ISBN: 9780813123219
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Using ethnological and statistical studies of warfare among tribal societies, Thayer argues that humans wage war...  Read More >>

Constant Battles: Why We Fight

Constant Battles: Why We Fight

Author: Steven A. LeBlanc ,  Katherine Register
ISBN: 9780312310905
Format: Paperback
$29.95

LeBlanc brilliantly argues that warfare has been a part of human existence throughout history. He uncovers a six-million-year-old...  Read More >>

America’s Viceroys: The Military and U.S. Foreign Policy

America’s Viceroys: The Military and U.S. Foreign Policy...

Author: D. Reveron
ISBN: 9781403964137
Format: Hardback
$104.00

With the U.S. armed forces playing an ever increasing central role in American foreign policy, surprisingly little...  Read More >>

War before Civilization

War before Civilization

Author: Lawrence H. Keeley (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago)
ISBN: 9780195119121
Format: Paperback
$31.95

"Offering a devastating rebuttal to the comfortable myth that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, and unimportant,...  Read More >>

Treatise on the Science of Defence for Sword, Bayonet and Pike in Close Action (1805)

Treatise on the Science of Defence for Sword, Bayonet...

Author: Anthony Gordon
ISBN: 9781843428510
Format: Paperback
$26.40

How to keep the British infantry square whole by using sword, bayonet or even pikes in defence. Published in 1805,...  Read More >>

Series of Military Experiments of Attack and Defence 1806

Series of Military Experiments of Attack and Defence...

Author: John Russell
ISBN: 9781843428329
Format: Paperback
$26.40

Attack and defence experiments made in Hyde Park in 1802, by order of the Duke of York, C-in-C of the Army, to find...  Read More >>

The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S. Military

The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S. Military...

Author: Martin L. Cook
ISBN: 9780791462423
Format: Paperback
$37.95

Explores the moral dimensions of the current global role of the U.S. military.  Read More >>

Moral Warrior, The: Ethics and Service in the U.S. Military

Moral Warrior, The: Ethics and Service in the U.S. Military...

Author: Martin L. Cook
ISBN: 9780791462416
Format: Hardback
$97.96

Explores a wide range of ethical issues regarding the nature and purpose of voluntary military service, the moral...  Read More >>

Deutsche milit�rische Verluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg

Deutsche milit�rische Verluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg...

Author: R�diger Overmans
ISBN: 9783486200287
Format: Paperback
$106.09

"Schon unmittelbar nach Kriegsende haben die Alliierten versucht, die H�he der deutschen Verluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg...  Read More >>

Rethinking War and Peace

Rethinking War and Peace

Author: Diana Francis
ISBN: 9780745321875
Format: Paperback
$69.84

An entirely modern argument for the irrelevance of war as a goal in international affairs.  Read More >>

Rethinking War and Peace

Rethinking War and Peace

Author: Diana Francis
ISBN: 9780745321882
Format: Hardback
$195.36

An entirely modern argument for the irrelevance of war as a goal in international affairs.  Read More >>

On War

On War

Author: Carl von Clausewitz
ISBN: 9781419112119
Format: Paperback
$73.79

If, in the next place, we keep once more to the pure conception of War, then we must say that the political object...  Read More >>

Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Alternate Scenarios

Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Alternate Scenarios

Author: Peter Tsouras
ISBN: 9781853676079
Format: Hardback
$97.55

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Command Failure in War: Psychology and Leadership

Command Failure in War: Psychology and Leadership

Author: Philip Langer ,  Robert Pois
ISBN: 9780253343789
Format: Hardback
$55.00

Why do military commanders, most of them usually quite capable, fail at crucial moments of their careers? Adopting...  Read More >>

Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane and the High and Tight: Cender, Folklore and Changing Military Culture

Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane and the High and Tight:...

Author: Carol Burke
ISBN: 9780807046609
Format: Hardback
$68.64

Burke (English and comparative literature, U. of California-Irvine) explores how folk culture within the four branches...  Read More >>

32 Battalion: The Inside Story of South Africa's Elite Fighting Unit

32 Battalion: The Inside Story of South Africa's Elite...

Author: Piet Nortje
ISBN: 9781868729142
Format: Paperback
$55.31

32 Battalion is the gripping inside story of South Africa's most controversial fighting unit of the 1970s and 1980s....  Read More >>

Deterrence

Deterrence

Author: Lawrence Freedman (King's College London)
ISBN: 9780745631134
Format: Paperback
$32.95

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Deterrence

Deterrence

Author: Lawrence Freedman (King's College London)
ISBN: 9780745631127
Format: Hardback
$103.95

As a concept, deterrence has launched a thousand books and articles. It has dominated Western strategic thinking...  Read More >>

Vegetius: Epitoma rei militaris

Vegetius: Epitoma rei militaris

Author: M. D. Reeve (, Kennedy Professor of Latin in the University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780199264643
Format: Leporello (folded)
$70.95

The first modern critical edition (based on a comprehensive investigation of over 200 surviving manuscripts) of...  Read More >>

The Military and Democracy in Asia and the Pacific

The Military and Democracy in Asia and the Pacific

Author: Ron May ,  Viberto Selochan
ISBN: 9781920942014
Format: Paperback
$48.00

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The Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare

The Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare

Author: Jim Bradbury (Brunel University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415221269
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Covering the whole geographical area of medieval Europe, including Eastern Europe, this comprehensive volume provides...  Read More >>

Secrets of Leadership: Thirty Centuries of Command

Secrets of Leadership: Thirty Centuries of Command

Author: John Laffin
ISBN: 9780750934602
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Generally, all great commanders all owe something to Gideon, victor over the Midianties about 1200 BC and to David,...  Read More >>

Zulu Kings and Their Armies

Zulu Kings and Their Armies

Author: Jonathan Sutherland ,  Diane Canwell
ISBN: 9781844150601
Format: Hardback
$57.99

Covering nearly one hundred years of Zulu military history, this book focuses on the creation, maintenance, development,...  Read More >>

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