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For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set aside. China has asserted its place among the global heavyweights, revealing its plans for pan-Asian dominance by building its navy, increasing territorial claims to areas like the South China Sea, and diplomatically bullying smaller players. Underlying this attitude is a strain of thinking that casts China's present-day actions in decidedly historical terms, as the path to restoring the dynastic glory of the past. If we understand how that historical identity relates to current actions, in ways ideological, philosophical, and even legal, we can learn to forecast just what kind of global power China stands to become--and to interact wisely with a future peer.

Strategic culture --- Geopolitics --- China --- Asia --- Foreign relations

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Strategic culture --- National security --- Homeland defense --- Homeland security --- Culture --- Military policy --- United States --- Foreign relations

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The EU's emergence as an international security provider, under the first Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) operations in the Balkans in 2003, is a critical development in European integration. In this book, which relies on extensive interviews with CSDP officials, Michael E. Smith investigates how the challenge of launching new CSDP operations causes the EU to adapt itself in order to improve its performance in this realm, through the mechanism of experiential institutional learning. However, although this learning has helped to expand the overall range and complexity of the CSDP, the effectiveness of this policy tool still varies widely depending on the nature of individual operations. The analysis also calls in to question whether the CSDP, and the EU's broader structures under the 2009 Treaty of Lisbon, are fit for purpose in light of the EU's growing strategic ambitions and the various security challenges facing Europe in recent years. --

EU--CSDP --- Strategic culture --- Common Security and Defence Policy --- European Union countries --- Defenses --- Military policy --- Strategic culture - European Union countries --- European Union countries - Defenses --- European Union countries - Military policy --- Security, International --- Common Security and Defence Policy. --- Defenses. --- Military policy. --- Culture --- National security --- Common Security and Defense Policy --- CSDP --- European Security and Defense Policy --- Common Foreign and Security Policy --- EU countries --- Euroland --- Europe --- European Union.

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This new edition of Frank Ledwidge’s eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh chapters assessing and enumerating the overall military performance since 2011—including Libya, ISIS, and the Chilcot findings—Ledwidge shows how lessons continue to go unlearned. “A brave and important book; essential reading for anyone wanting insights into the dysfunction within the British military today, and the consequences this has on the lives of innocent civilians caught up in war.”—Times Literary Supplement

Afghan War, 2001-2021 --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Strategic culture --- Campaigns --- Participation, British. --- Afghan War (2001-) --- Iraq War (2003-2011) --- 2000-2099 --- Great Britain --- Afghanistan --- Great Britain. --- Iraq. --- Iraq --- Armed Forces --- Operational readiness. --- Military policy --- History