Table Of ContentROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF
DEFENCE STUDIES
The Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies provides a comprehensive collection of essays on
contemporary defence studies by leading international scholars.
Defence studies is a multi-disciplinary study of how agents, predominantly states, prepare for
and go to war. Whereas security studies has been broadened and stretched to cover at times the
near totality of international and domestic affairs, and war studies has come to mean not just
operations and tactics but also experiences and outcomes, defence studies remains a coherent
area of study primarily aimed at how defence policy changes over time and in relation to stimu-
lating factors such as alterations in power, strategy and technology. This new Handbook offers a
complete landscape of this area of study and contributes to a review of defence studies in terms
of policy, security and war, but also looks forward to new challenges to existing conceptions of
defence and how this is changing as states and their militaries also change. The volume is divided
into four thematic sections: Defence as Policy; Defence Practice; Operations and Tactics; and
Contemporary Defence Issues. The ability to review the field while also looking forward to fur-
ther research is an important element of a sustainable text on defence studies. In as much as this
volume is able to highlight the main themes of defence studies, it also offers an in-depth look
into how defence issues can be examined and compared in a contemporary setting.
This Handbook will be of great interest to students of defence studies, strategic studies, war
studies, security studies and IR.
David J. Galbreath is Professor of International Security and Director of the Centre for
Security and Technology at the University of Bath, UK. He is former Editor-in-Chief of
European Security (2009–2015) and Defence Studies (2013–2016), and author of, most recently,
The European Minority Rights Regime (2012, with Joanne McEvoy).
John R. Deni is Research Professor of Security Studies at the US Army War College’s Strategic
Studies Institute and an adjunct lecturer at American University’s School of International
Service. He is author of NATO and Article 5 (2017).
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ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK
OF DEFENCE STUDIES
Edited by David J. Galbreath and
John R. Deni
First published 2018
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Names: Galbreath, David J., editor of compilation. | Deni, John R., editor
of compilation.
Title: Routledge handbook of defence studies / edited by David J.
Galbreath and John R. Deni.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon: New York, NY: Routledge, [2018] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017043209| ISBN 9781138122505 | ISBN
9781315650463
Subjects: LCSH: National security. | Military policy. | Military art and
science.
Classification: LCC UA10.5 .R688 2018 | DDC 355.02—dc23
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ISBN: 978-1-138-12250-5 (hbk)
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CONTENTS
List of contributors viii
Preface and acknowledgements xiv
Introduction 1
David J. Galbreath and John R. Deni
PART I
Defence as policy 3
1 Defence as policy 5
Trevor Taylor
2 Defence as war 18
Olivier Schmitt
3 Defence as security 29
Hannah E. Dönges and Stephanie C. Hofmann
4 Methods in defence studies 40
Delphine Deschaux-Dutard
PART II
Defence practice 51
5 Defence budgets 53
Keith Hartley
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6 Defence procurement 72
Matthew Uttley
7 Recruiting and retention to sustain a volunteer military force 87
Beth J. Asch and John T. Warner
8 Professional military education 98
Victoria Syme-Taylor and Duraid Jalili
9 Military logistics 113
Mahyar A. Amouzegar
10 Military doctrine 125
Harald Høiback
11 Strategy 136
Thomas G. Mahnken
12 Defence-strategic culture: between power and rules 147
Julian Lindley-French
13 Civil–military relations 158
Birthe Anders
PART III
Operations and tactics 169
14 Land warfare 171
Christopher Tuck
15 Air warfare 186
Viktoriya Fedorchak
16 Naval warfare 198
Alessio Patalano
17 Insurgency and counterinsurgency 214
Celeste Ward Gventer
18 Nuclear warfare and deterrence 225
John Friend and Bradley A. Thayer
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19 Cyber warfare 238
Chris Bronk
20 Joint combined operations 248
Thomas A. Drohan
21 Peace operations and ‘no peace to keep’ 260
Berma Klein Goldewijk and Joseph Soeters
22 Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance 272
Adam D.M. Svendsen
PART IV
Contemporary defence issues 289
23 Public opinion and defence 291
Bastian Giegerich
24 The role of private military corporations in defence 302
Mark Erbel and Christopher Kinsey
25 Resilience, security and defense 315
Brett Edwards
26 Military transformation 327
Peter Dombrowski
27 Military robots and drones 339
Ulrike Esther Franke
28 Military alliances 350
James Sperling
29 Security assistance 363
John R. Deni
30 Future war 375
Manabrata Guha
Index 394
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CONTRIBUTORS
Editors
John R. Deni is Research Professor of Security Studies at the US Army War College’s Strategic
Studies Institute and an adjunct lecturer at American University’s School of International
Service. Dr Deni completed his undergraduate degree in History and International Relations
at the College of William & Mary. He holds an MA in US Foreign Policy from American
University in Washington, DC, and a PhD in International Affairs from George Washington
University, USA.
David J. Galbreath is Professor of International Security and Director of the Centre for
Security and Technology at the University of Bath, UK. He is former Editor-in-Chief of
European Security (2009–2015) and Defence Studies (2013–2016), and author of, most recently,
The European Minority Rights Regime (2012, with Joanne McEvoy).
Contributors
Mahyar A. Amouzegar is Provost and Senior Vice-President for Academic Affairs at the
University of New Orleans, USA, and a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation.
Amouzegar has been leading large-scale projects evaluating the impact of combat support
options on the effectiveness and efficiency of military operations, including humanitarian mis-
sions. His research includes assessments of strategic locations, global allocation and transporta-
tion of material, evaluation of nuclear enterprises and analysis of mission assurance policies
through networked space, air, surface and cyberspace domains.
Birthe Anders is Senior HHI Fellow and Visiting Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School
of Public Health, USA. She holds a PhD in War Studies from the Department of War Studies,
King’s College London and a Diploma in Political Science and Law from Philipps Universität
Marburg, Germany. Her research focuses on Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs),
NGO security and civil–military relations. In addition, she has also conducted research on
International Humanitarian Law, particularly the regulation of PMSCs and on German and
European defence and security policy, including on maritime security.
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Beth J. Asch is Senior Economist at the RAND Corporation. Her areas of study include labour
economics and defence manpower. She has led numerous studies on compensation design in the
military and in the federal civil service, and on military recruiting and personnel supply to the
armed forces. Her most recent work includes military retirement reform, enlistment supply and
recruiting resource effectiveness, and retention and compensation in the federal civil service.
Chris Bronk is Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Systems at the University of
Houston, USA. He researches at the intersection of computer security and public policy with
an emphasis on energy, critical infrastructure and international affairs.
Delphine Deschaux-Dutard is Associate Professor in Political Science at the University
Grenoble Alpes, France. She holds a PhD from Sciences Po Grenoble (2008) dedicated to the
role of French and German diplomatic and military actors in European defence policy, and
more precisely in Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) since the 1990s. Her current
research interests focus on CSDP, French–German military cooperation, parliamentary control
of the use of military force in France and Germany, and lately cybersecurity and cyber defence
in the EU. Her latest publications deal with methods in the study of the military, NATO and
CSDP military operations, emerging powers and the cybersecurity strategy of the EU.
Peter Dombrowski is Professor of Strategy in the Strategic and Operational Research
Department at the Naval War College. Dr Dombrowski is the author of over sixty-five
publications. Awards include a Chancellor’s Scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation, the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Medal and the Navy Distinguished Civilian
Service Medal. He received his BA from Williams College and an MA and PhD from the
University of Maryland.
Hannah E. Dönges is a PhD Candidate at the Graduate Institute for International and
Development Studies and Doctoral Researcher at the Centre on Conflict Development
and Peacebuilding. Her research interests include armed violence, conflict analysis, small arms and
light weapons, and international organisations. Her dissertation focuses on the protection of
civilians in armed conflicts.
Thomas A. Drohan is Colonel in the Air Force and Permanent Professor and Head,
Department of Military and Strategic Studies, United States Air Force Academy. Colonel
Drohan has served as a combat rescue and airlift pilot, airlift squadron commander and educa-
tion group commander, vice commandant, and combined headquarters staff division chief in
the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Central and East Asia. He has served as Council
on Foreign Relations Fellow in Japan, Curriculum Advisor at the National Military Academy
of Afghanistan and Visiting Scholar at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International
Studies. He publishes on security, strategy and the military profession.
Brett Edwards is Lecturer in Security and Public Policy at the University of Bath, UK, working
at the intersection of technology, security and global governance. He has a wide range of research
interests including the security implications of cutting-edge biotechnology, the governance of
biological and chemical weapons and humanitarian intervention. He has recently completed an
Economic and Social Research Council-funded project working on how the convergence of
biological and chemical sciences impacts on international arms control and national resilience.
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