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Assessing significance -- Publications and experimentation -- Tasks for assessment -- Naval power -- Power projection -- The west and the rest -- Outcomes and choices -- The American War of Independence -- War between the USA and Native Americans -- Europe before the French Revolution -- The French Revolutionary Wars, 1792-99 -- The rise of Napoleon -- Asian conflicts in the 1780s and 1790s -- The rise of Britain -- Napoleon -- The War of 1812 -- The Latin American Wars of Independence -- Europe after Napoleon -- Developments elsewhere -- The aims of conflict -- The impact of technology -- The Taiping Rebellion -- The American Civil War -- The wars of German unification -- Latin America -- Western imperialism -- American expansion -- Naval power -- Non-western states -- East Asia -- 1789-1913 in review -- Background -- Opening campaign -- Conflict within Europe -- Warfare outside Europe -- War at sea -- Closing campaign -- Post-war conflict -- Civil war in China -- Elsewhere outside the west -- The British Empire in the 1930s -- The USA -- Naval developments -- Air power -- The Japanese in China, 1931-41 -- The Spanish Civil War -- German rearmament -- Opening campaigns, 1939-41 -- Soviet Union attacked, 1941 -- War in the Pacific, 1941-42 -- Axis attacks held, 1942 -- The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-45 -- Beating Germany, 1943-4 -- D-Day, 1944 -- Defeating Germany, 1944-5 -- Defeating Japan, 1943-5 -- Air power, 1939-45 -- War and society -- Why the axis lost -- The late 1940s -- The Malayan emergency -- France in Indo-China -- France in Algeria -- Britain and decolonisation -- Portugal and decolonisation -- Elsewhere in Africa -- The Chinese Civil War -- The Korean War -- The Vietnam War -- Confrontation in Europe -- Planning for Armageddon -- The Afghan War -- The Cold War at sea -- The last stages of the Cold War -- Border wars -- Intervention wars -- South Asia -- The Middle East -- Arab-Israeli wars -- Rebellions -- Coups -- Force and the state -- American operations -- Somalia and Haiti -- Chechnya -- The former Soviet Union --Former Kosovo -- Third world conflict -- The war on terrorism -- The revolution in military affairs -- Attempted revolutions in military affairs -- War in Iraq -- War in Afghanistan -- Expenditure -- Africa -- Syria -- War and disorder -- Technology -- The west versus the rest -- Fitness for purpose -- Cultural interpretations -- Paradigm powers

Key military developments occurred in the Early Modern period, during which armies evolved from troops of medieval knights to Napoleon's mass levies. Firearms impelled change, necessitating new battlefield tactics and fundamentally altering siege and naval warfare. The size and cost of military forces expanded enormously, and new standing armies underpinned the growing absolutist power of princes. Academic experts from both sides of the Atlantic review these developments, discussing the medieval legacy, Spain, the Ottoman Turks, the Thirty Years War, Prussia, the ancien régime and the Napoleonic Wars, together with sea power, the American Revolution and warfare outside the West.

Introduction: transnational military service since the eighteenth century / Nir Arielli and Bruce Collins -- Re-examining the decline of mercenary armies, 1776-1815 -- Desperate for soldiers: the recruitment of German prisoners of war during the American War of Independence, 1776-1783 / Daniel Krebs -- German auxiliary troops in the British and Dutch East India Companies / Chen Tzoref Ashkenazi -- The politics of foreign recruitment in Britain during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars / Kevin Linch -- Colonial military mobilization -- The military marketplace in India, 1840-60 / Bruce Collins -- Recruitment policies and recruitment experiences in the French Foreign legion / Christian Koller -- "They had the sea in their blood": Caymanian naval volunteers in the Second World War / Daniel Spence -- After empire: flows of military talent -- From imperial soldiers to national guardians: German and Lithuanian volunteers after the Great War, 1918-1919 / Tomas Balkelis -- Transnational flows of military talent: the contrasting experiences of Burma and Thailand since the 1940s / Nicholas Farrelly -- Of local identities and transnational conflict: the Katangese gendarmes and central-southern Africa's forty-years war, 1960-1999 / Miles Larmer -- Ideology, adventure, coercion -- "Strangers, mercenaries, heretics, scoffers, polluters": volunteering for the British auxiliary legion in Spain, 1835 / Martin Robson -- British red shirts: a history of the Garibaldi volunteers (1860) / Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe -- Getting there: enlistment considerations and the recruitment networks of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War / Nir Arielli -- Fighting in three uniforms: Soviet POWs in World War Two / Dónal O'Sullivan -- Conclusions -- Jihadists, diasporas and professional contractors: the resurgence of non-state recruitment since the 1980s / Nir Arielli and Bruce Collins

Understanding Modern Warfare has established itself as the leading introduction to the issues, ideas, concepts and context necessary to understand the theory and conduct of warfare in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is an invaluable text for military professionals and students of military history. Key features include: incisive coverage of the debates surrounding contemporary and future warfare; accessible, yet sophisticated, discussion across the land, sea, and air environments; and coverage of contemporary topics such as drones, cyber warfare, and hybrid warfare. The book makes extensive use of text boxes to explain key concepts and to reference extended examples, and it includes annotated guides to further reading and key questions to promote the reader's further thinking. This second edition has been fully revised and updated to take into account new debates and recent events in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine, and it has also been restructured to further improve its usefulness as a teaching tool.

Description based on: Vol. 3, published in 1982. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Issued by: U.S. Army Military History Research Collection, 1976- ; U.S. Army Military History Institute .

The military transformation of Early Modern Europe -- An era of limited war -- The era of Revolutionary Wars, North America -- French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars -- Industrialization and the American Civil War -- Prussian military reforms and the wars of German unification -- The long peace -- The First World War -- The interwar period -- The Second World War in Europe -- The Second World War in Asia -- The Cold War, a new era of limited conflicts? -- Conflict in the post-cold War World -- Conclusion: The new security environment and the future of warfare

A global account of warfare in the late fifteenth and sixteenth-century that emphasises the breadth of military trajectories and connections. It offers a corrective to a narrative that has emphasised European developments and obscured the history of non-European military systems and cultures of war.

1. Bringing together two narratives -- 2. The revolution in military affairs -- 3. A conventional account, 1990-2000 -- 4. Signs of difference, 1990-2000 -- 5. The war on terror -- 6. A multitude of conflicts -- 7. Into the future : the rivalry of major powers? -- 8. Into the future : weak states and "small wars"? -- 9. Conclusions.