Lawrence D. Freedman

The essays in this authoritative collection illuminate the origins and conduct of the American War of Independence, with a particular focus on the transformation of...

Hart’s history of the final year of World War I opens just after the major German offensive of 1918 had ground to a halt and as the Allies geared up for their own...

Scharre, a former U.S. Army Ranger, has thought more than most about the implications of autonomous weapons.

This gripping account of the French resistance to the Nazi occupation is told through the remarkable experiences of Robert de La Rochefoucauld, a Frenchman from an...

During the mid-1950s, the U.S. Air Force officer Edward Lansdale served as the CIA’s liaison to South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.

Daddis shows that the narrative of military victory snatched away by Congress and antiwar sentiment misses a vital point.

The debate about how digital communications technology is transforming conflict takes place on a spectrum.

The book is an enthralling, gossipy account of the interplay between senior U.S. military and political leaders since the end of the Cold War.

His experiences have led Ellsberg to argue that however much he might like to see nuclear weapons abolished, the first step in addressing the danger must be to make...

The Carter administration represented a momentous, if transitional, period in U.S. national security policy, and it remains curiously understudied.

Patrikarakos has gone to the frontlines of modern warfare to interview representatives of a species he calls Homo digitalis.

Two substantial biographies shed new light on the scientific breakthroughs that led to nuclear weapons and the massive organizational effort required to get the...

During World War II, almost 2,000 young Jewish men who had escaped to the United States from Austria and Nazi Germany and who now wished to serve their new country...

Friedman demonstrates that some core lessons are timeless—the advantage of combined arms, the importance of having the right mix of mass and firepower—even though...

Almost every online transaction, however routine and innocent, has the potential to become part of an unseen maneuver to cause mischief, steal money, bring down...

Sageman sets out to explain why people with radical political agendas turn to violence.