Defense & Security Analysis

2002 - 2025

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Volume 41, issue 1, 2025

Structural challenges in adapting to modern warfare: lessons from the Ukrainian War and the Czech defence industry pp. 1-28

Oldřich Krpec and Zdeněk Kříž

Nuclear chess on the Korean Peninsula: analysing North Korea’s “second mission” and strategic implications pp. 29-48

Hwee-rhak Park and Wooyun Jo

Strategic options for the European defence industry in the 2020s pp. 49-80

Tobias Mueller

War on the pandemic: European armed forces and the impact of COVID-19 deployments on military readiness pp. 81-104

Marcel Berni and Pierre-Louis Gonin

Operation Interflex: a change in the character of security force assistance? pp. 105-124

Vibeke Gootzen, Ivor Wiltenburg and Martijn Kitzen

Navalist blues: a short history of Turkey’s unorthodox navy leagues (1909–2021) pp. 125-144

Mustafa Serdar Karakaya

Reassessing NATO’s deterrence and defence posture in the Baltics: rebalancing strategic priorities to counter Russian hybrid aggression pp. 145-165

David V. Gioe, Marina Miron and Marc Ozawa

The insecurity of Taiwan: the dangers of a coercive campaign pp. 166-183

Balazs Szanto

The MiG diaries: fighter pilot memoirs & accounts of Cuban, SAAF and Angolan air combat in Southern African skies pp. 184-185

Sonja Theron

Special operations success: balancing capabilities and control pp. 185-189

Lawrence E. Cline

Four battlegrounds – power in the age of artificial intelligence pp. 189-191

Zsolt Lazar

Volume 40, issue 4, 2024

Why emerging and disruptive capabilities are a mixed blessing for NATO as a nuclear alliance pp. 463-476

Wannes Verstraete

Unpacking the learning dynamics of a military task force in Afghanistan from a project-based organising perspective pp. 477-498

E. J. de Waard and M. van der Vorm

Gaining local legitimacy in stabilisation operations: the Spanish peacekeepers case in Lebanon-UNIFIL II pp. 499-518

Marién Durán and Alberto Bueno

Fighting and winning in the Arctic: improving polar warfare capabilities pp. 519-539

Jeremy M. McKenzie, Chad M. Pillai, Ryan R. Duffy and Jahara Matisek

Defence sector and military cooperation between Turkey and the Central Asian Republics: limitations and prospects amidst intensified regional and global rivalry pp. 540-558

Göktuğ Sönmez and Gökhan Batu

Trade-offs and prisoner of war policy under renewed great power tension pp. 559-575

Spencer L. Willardson

‘Slava Ukraini!’ Strategy and the spirit of Ukrainian resistance 2014–2023 pp. 576-578

Sandor Fabian

Rebuilding Arab defense: US security cooperation in the Middle East pp. 579-581

Peter Wagner

Reassessing Russia's security policy pp. 581-585

Zdeněk Kříž

Volume 40, issue 3, 2024

Exploring the speed of change: European defence budgets in an age of danger pp. 319-340

Edward Hunter Christie, Caroline Buts and Cind Du Bois

The restructuring process of the Polish defence industry in the twenty-first century: doing more of the same while expecting different results pp. 341-360

Piotr Śledź

Wanted: a strategy to integrate deterrence pp. 361-378

James J. Wirtz and Jeffrey A. Larsen

Military mimicry: the art of concealment, deception, and imitation pp. 379-404

Ron Matthews and Thomas J. Matthews

Russia’s Arctic icebreaking capability: an assessment pp. 405-429

Nurlan Aliyev

The AUKUS agreement: a new form of the plurilateral defence alliance? A view from downunder pp. 430-449

Stefan Markowski, Robert Wylie and Satish Chand

Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the revolutionary era to the present pp. 450-456

Paul B. Rich

Illusions of control: dilemmas in managing U.S. proxy forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria pp. 456-460

Lawrence E. Cline

The US Navy and the national security establishment: a critical assessment pp. 460-461

Hogr Tarkhani

Volume 40, issue 2, 2024

Arms acquisition in the Baltic States and transfers to Ukraine: balancing national security pp. 167-189

Donatas Palavenis

Analysis and prospect of DPRK nuclear issue based on “Strategic logic of nuclear proliferation” pp. 190-210

Hanhyung Lee

The hidden cost of excess capabilities: a threat to future military readiness pp. 211-234

Ivo Peets

Artificial intelligence and information warfare in major power states: how the US, China, and Russia are using artificial intelligence in their information warfare and influence operations pp. 235-269

Lance Y. Hunter, Craig D. Albert, Josh Rutland, Kristen Topping and Christopher Hennigan

The pedagogy of Cyber-WAR pp. 270-291

Roman Kolodii

Carl von Clausewitz and Foucault on war and power pp. 292-310

Damian Winczewski

Research agenda for intelligence studies and government pp. 311-313

Ran Yi

Cold rivals – the new era of US-China strategic competition pp. 313-315

Zsolt Lazar

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Military–Civil Fusion – A New Paradigm for Military Innovation pp. 315-317

Maj. Balázs Taksás

Volume 40, issue 1, 2024

Military adaptation to combat mentoring: Belgium’s Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team experience pp. 1-19

Ivor Wiltenburg and Vibeke Gootzen

The Polish Air Force in transition: lessons from the F-16 programme pp. 20-40

Tadeusz Pieciukiewicz, Anna Brzozowska, Jędrzej Kowalczewski, Arkadiusz Kurkiewicz, Tomasz Miedziński, Dariusz Płóciennik, Krystian Zięć and Rafał Lipka

The Bushmen of Angola pp. 41-59

John P. Cann

Outsourcing national defense: an impediment to the US strategy of great power competition pp. 60-79

Thomas Bruneau

Understanding security force assistance: a matter of control? pp. 80-96

Alies Jansen

Artificial intelligence and arms races in the Middle East: the evolution of technology and its implications for regional and international security pp. 97-119

Jeremy Julian Sarkin and Saba Sotoudehfar

Geographically small but not weak: comparing the national security policies of Israel and Singapore pp. 120-137

Hanna Samir Kassab

How conventional arms control failures caused the Russo-Ukraine War pp. 138-160

William E. Lippert

The new age of naval power in the Indo-Pacific: strategy, order and regional security pp. 161-162

Mark Bailey

Limited force and the fight for the just war tradition pp. 162-164

Joseph A. Ledford

Darfur peacekeepers: the African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (AMIS) from the perspective of a Hungarian military advisor pp. 165-166

Scott Woodruff Lyons

Volume 39, issue 4, 2023

In memoriam: Richard Bitzinger Scholar and Mentor Remembered pp. 409-410

Zsolt Lazar

Warfare under scrutiny: British public perspectives of soldiers, and tactical behaviours in operation HERRICK pp. 411-431

Adam Shindler

The client’s struggle to control private military companies effectively pp. 432-451

Frank Daumann

What’s in a name? Confucian considerations for referring to U.S. military contractors pp. 452-480

Caroline Batka

Using the concept of mission command in defence resources management – the case of Romania pp. 481-501

Maria Constantinescu

The importance of war stratagem: the case study of the 1973 war Mount Hermon battles pp. 502-520

Haim Yogev, Ronen A. Cohen and Eyal Lewin

Trusting machine intelligence: artificial intelligence and human-autonomy teaming in military operations pp. 521-538

Michael Mayer

Reinforcing deterrence: assessing NATO’s 2022 Strategic Concept pp. 539-560

Zoltan Szenes

Outsourcing national defense: why and how private contractors are providing public services pp. 561-565

Caroline Batka

Military strategies of the new European allies. A comparative study. (Cass Military Studies) pp. 565-567

Bohuslav Pernica

Subversion – the strategic weaponization of narratives pp. 568-570

Zsolt Lazar

Volume 39, issue 3, 2023

Introduction pp. 279-280

Zdeněk Kříž

Mugged by reality: Russia's strategic narratives and the war in Ukraine pp. 281-295

Kateřina Fridrichová

The Russian invasion and its failure in the first days pp. 296-311

Richard Stojar

Ukraine’s third wave of military reform 2016–2022 – building a military able to defend Ukraine against the Russian invasion pp. 312-328

Deborah Sanders

Responding to needs: military aid to Ukraine during the first year after the 2022 invasion pp. 329-352

Nicholas Marsh

How Ukraine reveals Russian nuclear strategy pp. 353-368

Stephen Blank

Cloaked disintegration – Ukraine war and European defence-industrial co-operation in Central and Eastern Europe pp. 369-386

Martin Chovančík and Oldřich Krpec

The costly gamble: how Russia's invasion of Ukraine weakened its role as a balancing power pp. 387-406

Zdeněk Kříž

Concluding remarks: Russian invasion - the dawn of a new world order without American hegemony? pp. 407-408

Zdeněk Kříž

Volume 39, issue 2, 2023

Assessing the security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapon programme pp. 123-145

Tahir Mahmood Azad and Karl Dewey

Driving innovation in air power: the cold war’s four generations of fighter jets pp. 146-170

Ilan Shklarsky and Eitan Shamir

Understanding Sweden’s security economy pp. 171-190

Wayne Stephen Coetzee and Joakim Berndtsson

Targeted killings and the erosion of international norm against assassination pp. 191-206

SeyedMilad KashefiPour Dezfuli

The military application of artificial intelligence technology in the United States, China, and Russia and the implications for global security pp. 207-232

Lance Y. Hunter, Craig D. Albert, Christopher Henningan and Josh Rutland

The military and commercial development of brain–computer interfaces: international (in)security with brain-machine teaming pp. 233-252

Bryan T. Stinchfield

Military technology and revolutions in warfare: priming the drone debate pp. 253-255

Ash Rossiter

The Second Drone Age: defining war in the 2020s pp. 256-259

James Rogers

Military drones, air defence, and the hider-finder competition in air warfare pp. 260-262

Antonio Calcara, Ivan Zaccagnini, Mauro Gilli and Andrea Gilli

“No end of a lesson:” observations from the first high-intensity drone war pp. 263-266

Marc R. DeVore

Out of Africa: the impact of drones in Sub-Saharan conflicts pp. 267-270

Brendon J. Cannon

Drones in modern war: evolutionary, revolutionary, or both? pp. 271-274

Sarah Kreps and Paul Lushenko

American Defense Reform: Lessons from Failure and Success in Navy History pp. 275-277

Thomas C. Bruneau

Islamic state’s online propaganda: a comparative analysis pp. 277-278

Carl Gibson

Volume 39, issue 1, 2023

Why the Turkish defense industry between 1919 and 1950 failed? pp. 1-14

Uğur Ermiş and Günseli Gümüşel

Defence procurement in perspective: what the history of the aircraft industry can tell us about UK defence procurement pp. 15-33

Matthew Powell

The Greek defence industry: from crisis to equilibrium pp. 34-46

Spyridon Plakoudas

The position of the special operations forces soldiers on the so-called global war on terrorism. A survey report pp. 47-72

Marcin Lasoń

Identifying and planning military potential and national power: the case of the Israeli civilian-military planning units pp. 73-90

Yoram Fried

Institutional counterinsurgency frameworks in the Lake Chad Basin: the case of the Multinational Joint Task Force against Boko Haram pp. 91-110

Gershon Adela

Threat/risk assessment tool to assess vulnerability of Polish cities to Russian attacks pp. 111-117

Zbigniew Galar and Adam Sadowski

Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare: the USA, China and strategic stability pp. 118-121

Reuben Steff