IACSP Homeland Security Bookshelf V26N2

By Dr. Joshua Sinai

Military History

The Cambridge History of Warfare

[Second Edition] Geoffrey Park, editor, (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 552 pages, $99.99 [Hardcover], $29.99 [Paperback], ISBN: 978-1-3166-3276-5.

This is an important and comprehensive account by leading historians of the history of significant wars and how they led to transformations in warfare and weaponry. The volume is divided into four parts: the age of massed infantry (600 BC to 300 AD), the age of stone fortifications (300 to 1500), the age of guns and sales (1500 to 1815) and the age of mechanized warfare (1815 to 2019). The concluding chapter discusses the future of Western warfare. For counterterrorism analysts understanding the history of warfare is essential for placing terrorist warfare within the wider context of warfare, so this volume is highly recommended for courses on these subjects. The editor is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History and an associate of the Mershon Center at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

The Secret U.S. Plan to Overthrow the British Empire: War Plan Red

Graham M. Simons, (Havertown, PA: Frontline Books/An Imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2020), 256 pages, $34.95 [Hardcover], ISBN: 978-1-4738-9236-1.

This is a fascinating and little-known worst-case scenario scheme, known as “War Plan Red,” at the beginning of the Second World War, for the United States to invade Canada and t...