Defense & Security Analysis

2002 - 2025

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Volume 41, issue 3, 2025

Department of defense contracting out and its negative impact on U.S. military effectiveness pp. 373-391

Thomas C. Bruneau

The shift in technological dominance and the adaption of open innovation by the defence sector pp. 392-415

Nir Reuven and Eitan Shamir

German “pacifism” and the Zeitenwende pp. 416-440

Frank A. Stengel

Staying the course? Latvia’s choices between conscription and an all-volunteer force pp. 441-463

Toms Rostoks and Guna Gavrilko

Bridging which gaps? The European Union’s use of private military and security companies in common security and defence policy missions pp. 464-489

Oldrich Bures and Eugenio Cusumano

A quantitative analysis of the effects of drone and counter-drone systems on the Russia-Ukraine battlefield pp. 490-503

Vikram Mittal and John Goetz

Fragile safeguards: insider threats, jihadist intent, and the vulnerabilities of Pakistan’s nuclear security pp. 504-524

Sajid Farid Shapoo

Deterrence by demography? Southeast Asian migrant workers and the incentives for a Chinese blockade of Taiwan pp. 525-543

Brad Williams

To Run the World: the Kremlin's Cold War bid for global power pp. 544-546

Joseph A. Ledford

Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism pp. 546-550

Paul Rich

Restricted data - the history of nuclear secrecy in the United States pp. 550-552

Zsolt Lazar

Volume 41, issue 2, 2025

An introduction to the “balance of fear”: case studies of North Korea’s challenge to the United States and South Korea’s KMPR against North Korea pp. 193-214

Hwee-rhak Park

Influencing Muslim insurgencies in the Philippines pp. 215-239

Rick Breekveldt

Enabling human-machine integration for contested environments pp. 240-253

Christian A. Abney and Ronald M. Sega

Between idealism and pragmatism: Iran’s approach towards the Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2022 pp. 254-279

Robert Czulda

The Fall Crisis of 2022: why did Russia not use nuclear arms? pp. 280-300

Ulrich Kühn

A critical reflection on force protection pp. 301-318

Jori Pascal Kalkman

Recruit and threaten: hate speech detection within the pro-Wagner digital ecosystem on Telegram pp. 319-335

Giulia Porrino, Federico Borgonovo and Matteo Arru

NATO and Russia's actions in the Arctic as an example of symmetry in international security pp. 336-352

Michal Piechowicz

The rise and decline (?) of Soviet and Russian Spetsnaz pp. 353-364

Lawrence E. Cline

Algoritmi ognya i stali: oruzhie sovremennikh voin (Algorithms of fire and steel: weapons of modern wars) pp. 365-368

Krisztián Jójárt

The arms of the future – technology and close combat in the twenty-first century pp. 368-372

Zsolt Lazar

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 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