Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies

ISBN-13: 9781138122505 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 412 str.

David Galbreath; John R. Deni

Opis

The Routledge Handbook on Defence Studies provides a comprehensive guide to the key debates around defence studies in the 21st century. Defence studies is a multi-disciplinary study of how agents, predominantly states, prepare for and go to war. Where 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 more than 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 changes in power, strategy and technology. This 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 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 the collection 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.
The volume is divided into four thematic sections following an introduction by the editors. In the first section, the chapters look at 'identifying defence studies'. The chapters look at defence in three ways: narrowly as policy, applied as war, and broadly in terms of security. It also looks at the latest methods for researching defence studies in a changing empirical environment. The second section looks at 'defence practice'. These chapters look at the hallmarks of defence studies, including chapters on planning, budgets, and logistics. The third section examines 'operations and tactics'. In this section, the contributors look at the applied elements of defence policy with a focus on different types of warfare, such as land and cyber. Finally, the volume looks at 'contemporary defence issues'. This section pays attention to the challenges to 'doing defence' such as public opinion, defence culture and defence assistance. This handbook will be of great interest to students of defence studies, strategic studies, war studies, security studies and IR.

Spis treści

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