Cass Military Studies
Non-state Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects
1st Edition
By Ian Rice, Craig Whiteside
July 25, 2025
This book examines how violent non-state actors (VNSAs) emulate and develop military special operation capabilities. Building on previous research on Islamic State special operations, the book develops a theoretical framework surrounding a typology of VNSA (militants, proxies, criminal/cults, and ...
Civil-Military Interaction during Disaster Response: A New Model
1st Edition
By Emily M. Chapman
March 04, 2025
This book presents a model to help enhance civil-military interaction in disaster response settings for the benefit of affected communities and the host nation. Militaries are increasingly deploying to assist, or are present, in areas impacted by natural hazards. Drawing on the author’s own ...
Understanding Battlefield Coalitions
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosella Cappella Zielinski, Ryan Grauer
December 18, 2024
This book improves our understanding of battlefield coalitions, providing novel theoretical and empirical insight into their nature and capabilities, as well as the military and political consequences of their combat operations. The volume provides the first dataset of battlefield coalitions, uses...
Contemporary Military Reserves: Between the Civilian and Military Worlds
1st Edition
Edited
By Eyal Ben-Ari, Vincent Connelly
August 26, 2024
This book offers a comparative study of military reserves in contemporary democracies. A combination of budgetary pressures, new missions and emerging military roles during the past three decades has led the armed forces of democracies to rethink the training and use of reserve forces. Moreover, ...
Counterinsurgency Warfare and Brutalisation: The Second Russian-Chechen War
1st Edition
By Roberto Colombo, Emil Aslan Souleimanov
August 26, 2024
This book offers the first analysis of the brutalisation paradigm in counter-insurgency warfare. Minimising the use of force and winning over the population’s opinion is said to be the cornerstone of success in modern counterinsurgency (COIN). Yet, this tells only one side of the story. Drawing ...
Military Strategies of the New European Allies: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
By Håkan Edström, Jacob Westberg
August 26, 2024
This book analyses how and to what extent ex-communist states have adjusted their defence strategies since joining the EU and NATO, and how differences and similarities between their strategies can be explained. Between 1999 and 2013, four phases of enlargement took place when the European Union (...
Civil-Military Cooperation in International Interventions: The Role of Soldiers
1st Edition
By Agata Mazurkiewicz
May 27, 2024
This book investigates the challenges related to civil-military cooperation (CIMIC) and offers a new perspective by examining the social role of NATO CIMIC soldiers. The intertwining of the civilian and military spheres has become a significant part of the contemporary security environment. However...
Proxy War in Yemen
1st Edition
By Bernd Kaussler, Keith A. Grant
May 27, 2024
This book analyzes the civil war in Yemen and how intervening external actors have shaped the trajectory of the conflict. The work examines the conflict in Yemen as a testing ground for expectations about the autonomy and control of proxies by external patrons and the direct consequences for ...
Understanding Insurgent Resilience: Organizational Structures and the Implications for Counterinsurgency
1st Edition
By Andrew Henshaw
May 27, 2024
This book examines terrorist and insurgent organisations and seeks to understand how such groups persist for so long, while introducing a new strategic doctrine for countering these organisations. The work discusses whether familial or meritocratic insurgencies are more resilient to ...
Supreme Leadership in Modern War: Civil-Military Relations During Competition and War
1st Edition
Edited
By James Lacey, Williamson Murray
October 26, 2023
This edited volume focuses on civil-military relations before and during great power conflicts, and comprises historical case studies of modern supreme leadership. It aims to provide a guide for the future by shining a light on what worked and what failed in the civil-military relationships that ...
Understanding the Impact of Social Research on the Military: Reflections and Critiques
1st Edition
Edited
By Eyal Ben-Ari, Helena Carreiras, Celso Castro
September 25, 2023
This book seeks to chart and evaluate the impact of social research on the military itself. By "impact", the authors in this volume simply mean that which has a marked effect or influence on changing military policy, practices, knowledge, skills, behaviour, or living conditions. The book comprises ...
French Defence Policy Since the End of the Cold War
1st Edition
By Alice Pannier, Olivier Schmitt
May 31, 2023
This book describes the evolution of French defence policy since the end of the Cold War. For the past thirty years there have been significant changes to French defence policy as a result of several contextual evolutions. Changes include shifts in the global balance of power, new understandings of...