Defence

The Right to a Fair Trial in International Lawbrings together the diverse sources of international...

From 1946 to 1949, the Dutch prosecuted more than 1000 Japanese soldiers and civilians for...

Since the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998, international...

In U.S. Military Operations: Law, Policy, and Practice, a distinguished group of military experts comprehensively...

This book provides an article-by-article commentary on the text of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)...

The assassination of Osama bin Laden by SEAL Team 6 in May 2011 will certainly...

Nuclear forensics is the science of determining the history of a sample of radioactive material...

Long acknowledged as a classic text on strategy, Sun Tzu's The Art of War has...

Based on a detailed analysis of archives and high level interviews this book looks at...

The Oxford Handbook of War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first century....

This book offers a sober appraisal of the world trade in naval weapon systems at...

Since the Second World War five navies are known to have acquired nuclear weapons, and...

The impact of information technology in the field of military decision making is superficially less...

Nuclear explosions are the most visible manifestation of the arms race, and the conclusion of...

Realistic appraisal of Soviet defence efforts is crucial to strategic planning and foreign policy analysis....

The efforts of the United States to develop defences against ballistic missiles (the Strategic Defense...

SIPRI Stockholm International Peace Research Institute is an independent institute for scientific research, which aims...

The United States is in the midst of the largest military demobilization in its history....

From longbow, pike, and musket to Challenger tanks, from the Napoleonic Wars to the Gulf...

Karl von Clausewitz's study On War was described by the American strategic thinker Bernard Brodie...

Military and defense-related procurement has been an important source of technology development across a broad...

The end of the Cold War has brought about momentous changes within the armed forces...

The issue of prisoners in war is a highly timely topic that has received much...

The four Geneva Conventions, adopted in 1949, remain the fundamental basis of contemporary international humanitarian...

The United Nations Arms Trade Treaty became binding international law in late 2014, and although...

The gravity of a crime or case features in various international and national legal frameworks...

For decades, films such as WarGames and The Terminator have warned that the combination of...

Following the two world wars of the twentieth century, governments decided to dispose of unwanted...

Bringing together the law of armed conflict governing the use of weapons into a single...

The language of international criminal law has considerable traction in global politics, and much of...

The second edition of this well received handbook provides a comprehensive overview and annotated commentary...

This book delves into legal and ethical concerns over the increased weaponization of outer space...

Judge Mettraux's four-volume compendium, International Crimes: Law and Practice, will provide the most detailed and...

Prior to the progressive development of the law of armed conflict heralded by the 1949...

This Commentary offers detailed background and analysis of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear...