’s ability to provide such protection ultimately rests on its power to wage war. Governments therefore have tended to devote more … resources to war than to anything else. Indeed, prior to the advent of the modern welfare State, they usually spent more on war … than on all other things combined. Governments were essentially war making institutions that did a few other things on the …

Recent work on war and the military has addressed two broad questions: Why do states and societies wage war as they do …? And what difference does it make that war is, or has been, waged in that manner? Building on the Clausewitzian focus on … may figure prominently in war and its consequences. Scholarship in this area tends to focus on three broad domains …

In its war of attrition against Ukraine, the Kremlin is counting on outnumbering the enemy over a long period in terms … soldiers and volunteer fighters was stepped up significantly in order to conceal the human costs of war. At the same time, the … for a new round of compulsory mobilisation. However, Russia is not only recruiting for the war against Ukraine; the plan …