This work blends strategic analysis of contemporary US foreign policy with long-term historical discussion, producing an important argument relevant to the debates surrounding both the…

Examines the complex relationship between United States foreign policy and American national identity as it has changed from the post-cold war period through the defining…

American Soldiers in Iraq offers a unique snapshot of American soldiers in Iraq, analyzing their collective narratives in relation to the military sociology tradition.

Grounded in…

Written by leading historians and political scientists, this collection of essays offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the role of war in American history.

Addressing…

The rise and fall of the Cold War coincided with the universalization and consolidation of the modern nation-state as the key unit of the wider…

This book explores the cultural history and future prospects of the so-called ‘new American way of war’. In recent decades, American military culture has become…

James D. Kiras shows how a number of different special operations, in conjunction with more conventional military actions, achieve and sustain strategic effect(s) over time.…

US Defence Strategy from Vietnam to Operation Iraqi Freedom examines the thirty-year transformation in American military thought and defence strategy that spanned from 1973 through…