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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Strategic Studies is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Coercion by military assistance: A two-level strategy	42
Deterrence asymmetry and strategic stability in Europe	37
A bolt from the blue: NATO’s misconception of Soviet military strategy	29
Current Russian perspectives on strategic stability and deterrence through the prism of strategic culture	16
From the editors	15
From the editors	14
From the editors	14
Hear no evil, see no evil: Why the United States gets net assessment wrong	13
When competition becomes contagious: Strategic arms racing spillovers, alliance politics, and the Sino-American nuclear competition	12
Battlefield knowledge and barracks reality: Learning practices within the Netherlands Army	12
The evolution of China’s ballistic missile defense	12
A one-way attack drone revolution? Affordable mass precision in modern conflict	12
Strategic studies and cyber warfare	12
Introduction	11
On military restoration: How militaries recover from battlefield surprise	11
The quest for asymmetric advantages in a multi-domain environment	10
Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture	10
Evolving towards military innovation: AI and the Australian Army	9
What contributions do anti-insurgent militias produce during armed conflict? Exploring the capabilities of anti-insurgent militias in Colombia and the Philippines	9
From the editors	8
From the editors	7
History is written by the losers: Strategy and grand strategy in the aftermath of war	7
The weakest link: The vulnerability of U.S. and allied global information networks in the nuclear age	6
Anticipatory governance and new weapons of war: Lessons from the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons	6
Did the Bush Administration mean well?	6

The transatlantic basis of war and peace, 1914–1917	6
Stuxnet revisited: From cyber warfare to secret statecraft	6
Evolution of the Argentina Ministry of Defense since 1983: Organizations, norms, and personnel	6
‘Like-minded and like-acting.’ Central Europe, the West, and the overlooked factor of the Warsaw Pact’s demise	6
From the editors	6
Explaining the 2003 Iraq war (again) - Gore-war vs. Gore-peace revisited	6
Tracking mobile missiles	6
How small states break oil sanctions: Israel’s oil import strategy in the 1970s	5
We’ll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war	5
What does NATO do for you? Advancing the debate on NATO’s endurance and enlargement	5
The strategic-level effects of long-range strike weapons: A framework for analysis	5
Building engines for war: Air-cooled radial aircraft engine production in Britain and America in World War II	5
Is the decline of war a delusion? The long peace phenomenon and the modernization peace – the explanation that refutes or subsumes all others	5
The effectiveness of coercive intelligence disclosure: The case of Israel and the German scientists in Egypt	4
Unpacking the varying strategic logics of total defence	4
When tanks tank and bombs bomb: Understanding failure in military innovation	4
Reply to Frank Harvey – what counterfactuals cannot do	4
Re-examining the introduction of 280 mm Cannons and Honest John Rockets into Korea, January 1958	4
The intelligence intellectuals: Social scientists and the making of the CIA	4
The end of MAD? Technological innovation and the future of nuclear retaliatory capabilities	4
Is India underbalancing China?	3
Counterinsurgency as fad: America’s rushed engagement with irregular warfare	3
How the United States lost the “forever war”	3
Norway, deterrence, reassurance and strategic stability in Europe	3
From the editors	3
“Hamas is deterred” as wishful thinking: An analysis of how Israel empowered Hamas to attack Israel on October 7	3
Is the decline of war a delusion? An exchange between researchers following the publication of Azar Gat’s article on the subject	3
New technology, old strategy: Cyberspace and the international politics of African agency	3
Ceci n’est pas une nuke? The impact of emerging militarised technologies on strategic stability	3
Rethinking Gore-War: Counterfactuals and the 2003 Iraq War	3
The genesis of the first strategic stealth bomber: Understanding the interactions between strategy, bureaucracy, politics, and technology	3
The deterrence-provocation continuum in the context of Russian strategic culture: Hypersensitivity, holism-conspiracism, and sacred great power status	3
Awe for strategic effect: Hardly worth the trouble	3
Trust but verify: Satellite reconnaissance, secrecy and arms control during the Cold War	3
Understanding Russia’s war against Ukraine: Political, eschatological and cataclysmic dimensions	3
The Ministry of National Defence in South Korea: Military dominance despite civilian supremacy?	2
Hybrid times: War and peace in military innovation studies	2
Schwerpunkt and the center of gravity in comparative perspective: From Clausewitz to JP 5-0	2
Structure amid change: The global nuclear order and the Soviet collapse	2
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: A scene-setter	2
Why definitions matter: Victory, security, and the strategy gap	2
BOOK REVIEW	2
The difficult politics of peace: Rivalry in modern South AsiaReview of Christopher Clary, The difficult politics of peace: Rivalry in modern South Asia , New York, Oxfor	2
Know Thy Enemy? Generating, negotiating and codifying knowledge of insurgencies into U.S. Counterinsurgency doctrine, 2004–2006	2
Reversal of nuclear-conventional entanglement in outer space	2
Was the 600-ship navy a chimera? Budgets, force structure, and the political realities behind Reagan-era naval strategy	2
Introduction to the special issue	2
Grand strategy or grant strategy? Philanthropic foundations, strategic studies and the American academy	2
Killing them softly: China’s counterspace developments and force posture in space	2
War in the Black Sea: The revival of the Jeune École?	2

China’s test of the nuclear revolution: Technology, great power competition and the nuclear balance	2
Information security in the space age: Britain’s Skynet satellite communications program and the evolution of modern command and control networks	2
Is empathy a strategic imperative? A review essay	1
A Realism for the twenty-first century? Just maybe	1
From the editors	1
Assessing Jean Lartéguy’s The Centurions for the past, present, and future of irregular warfare	1
A Swiss “Columbus” in Clausewitz’s homeland: How the works of Antoine-Henri de Jomini were received by the Prussian military before 1848	1
Deterrence, reassurance and strategic stability: The enduring relevance of Johan Jørgen Holst	1
The spoilers from within: Allies and export controls	1
Undersea nuclear forces: Survivability of Chinese, Russian, and US SSBNs	1
The new makers of modern strategy: From the ancient world to the digital age	1
Indefinite by design: Bureaucracy, strategic planning, and the early Global War on Terror, 2001–2006	1
Israel’s inter-war campaigns doctrine: From opportunism to principle	1
Correction	1
The digital cult of the offensive and the US military	1
Undermining economic engagement and enlargement: The Kremlin’s impact on US foreign economic policy in Ukraine (1993–2001)	1
China’s defence semiconductor industrial base in an age of globalisation: Cross-strait dynamics and regional security implications	1
The dual ‘dual’ policy: Two conceptions of ‘deterrence and reassurance’ in Norwegian security policy and analyses	1
Beyond cultural determinism: Rethinking military effectiveness in the Gulf monarchies	1
State or soldier? Explaining China’s decisionmaking in India-China border crises	1
The evolutionary roots of war and peace	1
Designing around NATO’s deterrence: Russia’s Nordic information confrontation strategy	1
Fall Grün : Hitler’s planned invasion of Czechoslovakia from the German perspective	1
Narratives of victory: Obama, killing bin Laden, and the 2012 election	1
The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the concept of sea power	1
Robot wars: Autonomous drone swarms and the battlefield of the future	1
From the editors	1
From the editors	1
Technological determinism or strategic advantage? Comparing the two Karabakh Wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan	1
Routes to reform: Civil–military relations and democracy in the third wave Routes to reform: Civil–military relations and democracy in the third wave , by David Kuehn an	1
Hidden hands: The failure of population-centric counterinsurgency in Afghanistan 2008-11	1
Patron problems: Local sovereignty, limited leverage, and tough tradeoffs in U.S. Intervention strategies in Vietnam and Iraq	1
South Africa’s disarmament and its ramifications: From the NPT to the Treaty of Pelindaba and MTCR adherence, 1988–1995	1
Mapping the cognitive warfare literature: A strategic analysis (1981–2025)	1
Why civilians don’t defer to military preferences about cyber strategy like they do for other domains	1
Seeking a new military balance: Hans von Beseler’s concepts for rebuilding the German fortification system in the east	1
The fulcrum of democratic civilian control: Re-imagining the role of defence ministries	1
Anti-satellite warfare, proliferated satellites, and the future of space-based military surveillance	1
Fortuna , chance, risk and opportunity in strategy from Antiquity to the Nuclear Age	1
‘Neville, you must remember you don’t know anything about foreign affairs’: Assurance, air power, and alternative histories to appeasement	1
‘Hybrid warfare’ as an academic fashion	1
Clausewitz at the nexus of competing fashions in Western strategic thought	1
Navigating the AI frontier: Insights from the Ukraine conflict for NATO’s governance role in military AI	1
Don’t judge islands by their sizes: The role of remote Japanese islands in the regional military balance	1
From the editors	1
Arms control and innovation: Precedents for U.S.-Russian technology regulation from the Cold War	1
Who, exactly, will ban the bomb?	1
An unstable equilibrium: Civil-military relations within the French Ministry of Defence	1