Routledge handbook of defence studies

Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies- Front Cover
Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of contributors
	Editors
	Contributors
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: Defence as policy
Chapter 1: Defence as policy
	Introduction
	The functions of defence policy documents
	The desirable elements of defence policy
	Risks associated with the absence of, or weaknesses in, defence policy
	The challenges of policy-making and implementation
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 2: Defence as war
	Introduction
	Key themes and debates in war studies
	One field, many disciplines: the challenges of studying war
	Studying war to prepare defence
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
Chapter 3: Defence as security
	Introduction
	Key themes and debates
	Illustrations
	Future tendencies
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 4: Methods in defence studies
	Introduction: why do methodological questions matter in defence studies?
	Key themes and debates in the methodology of defence studies
	Applications: how to interview defence officials in a comparative perspective – a case study on French and German officers and diplomats
	Future tendencies: the impact of new technologies and social networks
	Conclusion: why methodological reflexivity matters in defence studies
	Notes
	References
PART II: Defence practice
Chapter 5: Defence budgets
	Introduction
	Key themes and debates
	Applications: case studies
	Future tendencies
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 6: Defence procurement
	Introduction
	Key themes and case studies
	Conclusions and future research priorities
	Notes
Chapter 7: Recruiting and retention to sustain a volunteer military force
	Introduction
	Conceptual framework and empirical approaches to estimating the determinants of recruiting and retention
	Empirical evidence on the determinants of enlistment
	Empirical evidence on the determinants of retention
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
Chapter 8: Professional military education
	What is education?
	The academics are coming!
	Curricular development and reform
	Jointness, diversity and elites
	Case studies
	Known knowns and known unknowns
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 9: Military logistics
	Introduction
	Logistics in the twentieth century
	Post-Cold War and logistics in the twenty-first century
	Two key elements of modern military logistics
	Transportation
	Modes of transportation
	Overseas combat support basing
	Combat support factors
	Logistics operation in a denied environment
	Notes
	References
Chapter 10: Military doctrine
	Introduction
	Key themes
	Nuts and bolts of military doctrine
	The hazards and dangers of doctrine
	Self-injuring countermeasures
	You cannot not do doctrine
	Doctrines in use
	Future tendencies
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 11: Strategy
	Understanding strategy and war
	Key themes and debates
	Applications (case studies)
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 12: Defence-strategic culture: between power and rules
	Introduction
	The eclipse of liberal ideas of power
	Defence-strategic culture?
	Focus and methodology
	The global Americans
	The four grand revisionists
	The former and would-be hegemons
	The defence-strategic in-betweeners
	Defence-strategic culture in an age of insecurity
	Notes
	References
Chapter 13: Civil–military relations
	Introduction
	The theory of civil–military relations
	A civil–military gap?
	Case study 1: NGO–military relations and questions of inter-cultural cooperation
	Case study 2: PRTs in Afghanistan and questions of command and control
	Future civil–military relations
	Notes
	References
PART III:
Operations and tactics
Chapter 14: Land warfare
	Introduction
	Key themes
	Key debates
	Case studies in land warfare
	Future tendencies
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 15: Air warfare
	Introduction
	Key debates and themes
	Case study of Libya
	Future trends
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 16: Naval warfare
	Introduction: naval warfare and defence studies
	Key themes and debates
	Applications (case studies)
	Future tendencies
	Conclusion: significance in understanding defence
	Notes
Chapter 17: Insurgency and counterinsurgency
	Introduction
	Terminology
	History and major themes in counterinsurgency thinking
	Twenty-first-century COIN
	Ongoing debates on counterinsurgency
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 18: Nuclear warfare and deterrence
	Conceptual foundations and key debates
	Case studies
	Future trends
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 19: Cyber warfare
Chapter 20: Joint combined operations
	Introduction
	Key themes and debates
	Application
	Future tendencies
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 21: Peace operations and ‘no peace to keep’
	Introduction
	Key themes: policy advances, operation types, and robust mandates
	Evaluating peace missions and their impacts
	Conclusions: future tendencies in peace operations
	Notes
	References
Chapter 22: Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
	Introduction
	ISR characteristics
	ISR in action
	ISR challenges
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
PART IV:
Contemporary defence issues
Chapter 23: Public opinion and defence
	Introduction
	Democratic control
	Casualties and Western public opinion
	The use of force by Western European countries
	Concluding remarks
	Notes
	References
Chapter 24: The role of private military corporations in defence
	Introduction
	Definitions
	Theories explaining military outsourcing to PMCs
	Key debates surrounding the use of PMCs
	Using PMCs to deliver contracted military support today
	PMCs and their future use in defence
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 25: Resilience, security and defense
	Introduction
	Key aspects of resilience
	Delimiting the terrain of the core ideas, politics and practices of resilience
	Resilience and defense
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 26: Military transformation
	A very brief history of U.S. military transformation
	Wartime versus peacetime transformation
	Understanding military transformation
	Organizational, technological, or ideational
	Evolution versus revolution
	Top-down versus bottom-up approaches to transformation
	Impediments to transformation
	Future developments in military transformation
	Notes
Chapter 27: Military robots and drones
	What’s in a name?
	Proliferation of military systems
	Ability to circumvent democratic principles
	Reputation
	An unmanned revolution?
	Future developments
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 28: Military alliances
	Introduction
	Alliance formation: balancing and bandwagoning
	Classification of alliances and alliance systems
	Alliance membership: assets and liabilities
	Alliances: cohesion and disintegration
	Conclusion: alliances as agents of collective securitization
	Notes
	References
Chapter 29: Security assistance
	Introduction
	What is security assistance?
	The benefits of security assistance
	Security assistance in context
	The challenges of security assistance
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 30: Future war
	Introduction
	Thinking the unthinkable
	Present tense, future unknown
	The technics and techniques of future war
	On future war
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
	Misc. documents
Index