Routledge handbook of defence studies

Table of Contents: “…Defence as policy -- Defence as war -- Defence as security -- Methods in defence studies -- Defence budgets -- Defence procurement -- Recruiting and retention to sustain a volunteer military force -- Professional military education -- Military logistics -- Military doctrine -- Strategy -- Defence-strategic culture: between power and rules -- Civil-military relations -- Land warfare -- Air warfare -- Naval warfare -- Insurgency and counterinsurgency -- Nuclear warfare and deterrence -- Cyber warfare -- Joint combined operations -- Peace operations and 'no peace to keep' -- Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance -- Public opinion and defence -- The role of private military corporations in defence -- Resilience, security and defense -- Military transformation -- Military robots and drones -- Military alliances -- Security assistance -- Future war…”

American civil-military relations the soldier and the state in a new era

Table of Contents: “…-- A broken dialogue: Rumsfeld, Shinseki, and civil-military tension -- Before and after Huntington: the methodological maturing of civil-military studies -- Hartz, Huntington, and the liberal tradition in America: the clash with military realism -- Winning wars, not just battles: expanding the military profession to incorporate stability operations -- Professionalism and professional military education in the twenty-first century -- Responsible obedience by military professionals: the discretion to do what is wrong -- The military mind: a reassessment of the ideological roots of American military professionalism -- Changing conceptions of the military as a profession -- Militaries and political activity in democracies -- Enhancing national security and civilian control of the military: a Madisonian approach -- Building trust: civil-military behaviors for effective national security.…”

Military culture and education

Table of Contents: “…No "Holidays from History": Adult Learning, Professional Military Education, and Teaching History.…”

Military brass vs. civilian academics at the National War College a clash of cultures by Wiarda, Howard J. 1939-

The academic-practitioner divide in intelligence studies

Table of Contents: “…Mandel -- Intelligence and the US Army War College : the academic-practitioner relationship in professional military education / Genevieve Lester, James G. Breckenridge, and Thomas Spahr -- Assessing the quality of strategic intelligence products : cooperation and competition between scholars and practitioners / José-Miguel Palacios -- Lessons learned for the private sector intelligence analyst / Michael J. …”

Military education past, present, and future