Collection: Recommended Reading (14)

¿́¿Military Orientalism argues against the idea that culture dictates the strategy of war. Culture is powerful, Patrick Porter asserts, but it encompasses an ambiguous repertoire of ideas rather than a clear code of action. To divide the world into Western, Asiatic, or Islamic ways of war is a mi...

Geoffrey Till's aims to accomplish the purpose of why and how navies matter, or likely to matter in the twenty-first century. This is relevant to the theoretical framework of the roles navies play as an appreciation to the Maritime Subject within the Joint Term I. Stemming from this cognitive kn...

"Throughout history, armies of occupation and civil power have been faced with the challenges of insurgency. British and American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan has highlighted this form of conflict in the modern world. Armies have had to adopt new doctrines and tactics to deal with the prob...