Cass Military Studies
Russian Military Interventions after the Cold War: Evaluating the Russian Federation's Wars
1st Edition
Edited
By Marek Madej, Andrzej Szeptycki
August 28, 2026
This book examines the Russian Federation’s military interventions in the post-Cold War era. The work connects key events – the Chechen and Georgian Wars, the annexation of Crimea, the Syrian intervention and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine – in a coherent narrative, showing how these conflicts...
Military Professional Practices: Material Arrangements, Social Structure, and Culture
1st Edition
By Hans Hasselbladh
June 25, 2026
This book analyzes military professional practices with respect to differences in their social structure, material embedding, and cultural patterns. The volume offers a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the military institutional and organizational landscape, highlighting variation, ...
Military Exercises and Threat Perception in Europe: NATO, Russia, and the Politics of War Games, 1975–2018
1st Edition
By Thomas Hughes
June 12, 2026
This book explores the politics of military exercises in Europe between 1975 and 2018, revealing how NATO, the Soviet Union, and Russia have used exercises as political tools and how these activities shaped and reflected their perception of the threat environment. Drawing on extensive archival ...
Military Strategy in an Era of Unipolar Demise: Exploring Strategic Diversity among Nations
1st Edition
By Håkan Edström, Jacob Westberg
May 22, 2026
This book presents a systematic comparison of the military strategies pursued by five great powers, eight major middle powers and eight middle powers during the early twenty-first century. In addition to mapping the strategic priorities of these states, the study develops and applies a ...
Special Operations and National Security: Policies, Strategies, and Tactics
1st Edition
By Ben Gans
May 21, 2026
This book focuses on strategic special operations and how these have led to the achievement of major foreign policy goals, which is illustrated by six case studies. The study specifically focuses on the alignment of the policies, strategies, and tactics that dominated these operations, providing a ...
The Evolution of the US Air Force: Organizational Culture and Preparedness for War
1st Edition
By Israel Guy
May 21, 2026
This book looks at the history of the US Air Force through the lens of its (lack of) preparedness for major wars, which is shown to be a result of its organizational culture. The U.S. Air Force is probably the most powerful military force in history, both in its destructive firepower and in its ...
Counterinsurgency, Military Occupations, and Civilian Targeting: Explaining Indiscriminate Violence in Expeditionary Campaigns
1st Edition
By Fausto Scarinzi
April 18, 2026
This book addresses the causes of civilian targeting during counterinsurgency campaigns in occupied territories. It develops a new theoretical framework explaining the level of civilian victimization in expeditionary counterinsurgency as an outcome influenced by state leaders’ perceptions of ...
Advancing Military Practice through Military Humanities
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne Marie Hagen, Kjetil Enstad
April 13, 2026
This book introduces military humanities (MILHUM) as a new field of inquiry to demonstrate the utility of the humanities for a critical understanding of the military and its practices, and as a tool for developing these practices. Modelled on the medical humanities, MILHUM aims to play an analogous...
Military Policing in Advanced Democracies: Italy in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Matteo Mazziotti di Celso
February 19, 2026
This book investigates when and why governments in advanced democracies deploy armed forces for domestic security. It develops a theoretical framework conceptualising military policing as a policy instrument and identifies circumstances that lead governing parties to choose military over police for...
Just War Theory and Likelihood of Success: Prudential Judgement, Geopolitics and Just Statecraft
1st Edition
Edited
By Eric Patterson, Robert J. Joustra
November 25, 2025
This book analyzes the concept of likelihood of success in just war thinking and argues that if the concept should be retained, it must be reconsidered within the overall whole of the tradition of just war. The concept of likelihood of success has stood out as particularly troublesome to thinkers ...
The Air War in Ukraine: The First Year of Conflict
1st Edition
Edited
By Dag Henriksen, Justin Bronk
October 27, 2025
This book provides a comprehensive account of the use of airpower in the first year of the Ukraine conflict. Airpower has been central to political, military, and public debates from the outset of the Russo‑Ukrainian war. After having started with whether the US and NATO should attempt to establish...
Sociopolitical Sciences and International Military Affairs: The Tunnel of War and Peace
1st Edition
By Joseph Soeters
September 30, 2025
This book examines the connection between sociology and international military affairs by analysing the work of key social and political scientists in the field. The book demonstrates the renewed relevance of older sociological concepts such as imitation, unanticipated consequences of policies, ...