Journal of Strategic Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Strategic Studies is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Deterrence asymmetry and strategic stability in Europe19
Learning from losing: How defeat shapes coalition dynamics in wartime18
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy15
Pulled East. The rise of China, Europe and French security policy in the Asia-Pacific14
From the editors12
Andrew Marshall and net assessment12
Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare: The USA, China, and strategic stability12
Red lines: Enforcement, declaration, and ambiguity in the Cuban Missile Crisis11
Strategic studies and cyber warfare11
In the blind spot: Influence operations and sub-threshold situational awareness in Norway11
A one-way attack drone revolution? Affordable mass precision in modern conflict8
Hear no evil, see no evil: Why the United States gets net assessment wrong8
The maritime perspective: Placing the oceans in the study of the Second World War8
From the editors8
On military restoration: How militaries recover from battlefield surprise7
What contributions do anti-insurgent militias produce during armed conflict? Exploring the capabilities of anti-insurgent militias in Colombia and the Philippines6
History is written by the losers: Strategy and grand strategy in the aftermath of war6
Did the Bush Administration mean well?6
Organizational strategy and its implications for strategic studies: A review essay6
Tracking mobile missiles6
Evolving towards military innovation: AI and the Australian Army6
From the editors6
Evolution of the Argentina Ministry of Defense since 1983: Organizations, norms, and personnel6
The transatlantic basis of war and peace, 1914–19175
Speaking with one voice: Coalitions and wartime diplomacy4
Explaining the 2003 Iraq war (again) - Gore-war vs. Gore-peace revisited4
Is the decline of war a delusion? The long peace phenomenon and the modernization peace – the explanation that refutes or subsumes all others4
The weakest link: The vulnerability of U.S. and allied global information networks in the nuclear age4
Anticipatory governance and new weapons of war: Lessons from the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons4
We’ll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war4
Stuxnet revisited: From cyber warfare to secret statecraft4
The strategic-level effects of long-range strike weapons: A framework for analysis4
What does NATO do for you? Advancing the debate on NATO’s endurance and enlargement4
How small states break oil sanctions: Israel’s oil import strategy in the 1970s3
Unpacking the varying strategic logics of total defence3
Building engines for war: Air-cooled radial aircraft engine production in Britain and America in World War II3
Military-technological innovation in small states: The cases of Israel and Singapore3
From the editors3
North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs: Foreign absorption and domestic innovation3
The rise of the autocratic nuclear marketplace3
The end of MAD? Technological innovation and the future of nuclear retaliatory capabilities3
How leaders exercise emergent strategy? Lessons from Moshe Dayan2
Is India underbalancing China?2
Protecting China’s interests overseas: Securitization and foreign policy2
Which way to turn? Recent directions in writing about the American Civil War2
The genesis of the first strategic stealth bomber: Understanding the interactions between strategy, bureaucracy, politics, and technology2
Reply to Frank Harvey – what counterfactuals cannot do2
How the United States lost the “forever war”2
Norway, deterrence, reassurance and strategic stability in Europe2
Rethinking Gore-War: Counterfactuals and the 2003 Iraq War2
Counterinsurgency as fad: America’s rushed engagement with irregular warfare2
From the editors2
Ceci n’est pas une nuke? The impact of emerging militarised technologies on strategic stability2
Awe for strategic effect: Hardly worth the trouble2
An unstable equilibrium: Civil-military relations within the French Ministry of Defence1
Understanding battlefield coalitions1
Command and military effectiveness in rebel and hybrid battlefield coalitions1
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, Oxfor1
“No annihilation without representation”: NATO nuclear use decision-making during the Cold War1
From the editors1
Introduction to the special issue1
China’s test of the nuclear revolution: Technology, great power competition and the nuclear balance1
Reversal of nuclear-conventional entanglement in outer space1
Here there be dragons? Chinese submarine options in the Arctic1
The dual ‘dual’ policy: Two conceptions of ‘deterrence and reassurance’ in Norwegian security policy and analyses1
War in the Black Sea: The revival of the Jeune École?1
Was the 600-ship navy a chimera? Budgets, force structure, and the political realities behind Reagan-era naval strategy1
Killing them softly: China’s counterspace developments and force posture in space1
What is a military innovation and why it matters1
The Ministry of National Defence in South Korea: Military dominance despite civilian supremacy?1
Understanding Russia’s war against Ukraine: Political, eschatological and cataclysmic dimensions1
New technology, old strategy: Cyberspace and the international politics of African agency1
Schwerpunkt and the center of gravity in comparative perspective: From Clausewitz to JP 5-01
Who, exactly, will ban the bomb?1
Arms control and innovation: Precedents for U.S.-Russian technology regulation from the Cold War1
China’s defence semiconductor industrial base in an age of globalisation: Cross-strait dynamics and regional security implications1
Information security in the space age: Britain’s Skynet satellite communications program and the evolution of modern command and control networks1
Examining India’s defence innovation performance1
Why rebels rely on terrorists: The persistence of the Taliban-al-Qaeda battlefield coalition in Afghanistan1
Grand strategy or grant strategy? Philanthropic foundations, strategic studies and the American academy1
Will inter-state war take place in cities?1
Trust but verify: Satellite reconnaissance, secrecy and arms control during the Cold War1
Deterrence by denial in cyberspace1
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: A scene-setter1
The myth of the nuclear revolution: Power politics in the atomic age1
From the editors0
The war against Ukraine through the prism of Russian military thought0
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 an0
Success defying all expectations: How and why limited use of force helped to end Somali piracy0
Technological determinism or strategic advantage? Comparing the two Karabakh Wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan0
The defense innovation machine: Why the U.S. will remain on the cutting edge0
A conceptual framework of defence innovation0
Defense innovation in Russia in the 2010s0
‘Hybrid warfare’ as an academic fashion0
The Abbottabad raid and the theory of special operations0
‘Neville, you must remember you don’t know anything about foreign affairs’: Assurance, air power, and alternative histories to appeasement0
From the editors0
Seeking a new military balance: Hans von Beseler’s concepts for rebuilding the German fortification system in the east0
Deterrence, reassurance and strategic stability: The enduring relevance of Johan Jørgen Holst0
Stability and change in nuclear thinking: Grand strategy, nuclear weapons, and policy change0
From closed to open systems: How the US military services pursue innovation0
REVIEW ESSAY OF CHANGING OF THE GUARD AND BLOOD, METAL AND DUST The Changing of the Guard – the British Army since 9/11 , Simon Akam, London, Scribe Publications, 2021, 0
How the Russian army changed its concept of war, 1993–20220
Systemic effects of economic interdependence and the militarisation of diplomacy: 1914 and beyond0
From the editors0
The role of defence countertrade in Chinese geoeconomic diplomacy0
Aligning tactics with strategy: Vertical implementation of military doctrine0
The role of tri-liminality in the UK’s security force assistance to Nigerian counterinsurgency: A Principal-Agent perspective0
From the editors0
Navigating the AI frontier: Insights from the Ukraine conflict for NATO’s governance role in military AI0
Fortuna , chance, risk and opportunity in strategy from Antiquity to the Nuclear Age0
What we disagree about when we disagree about doctrine0
From the editors0
From the editors0
A century of coalitions in battle: Incidence, composition, and performance, 1900-20030
Israelpolitik: German-Israeli relations, 1949-690
From the editors0
A new and better quiet option? Strategies of subversion and cyber conflict0
Hidden violence and silenced voices: Why have lessons about women in counterinsurgency not endured?0
Issue linkage in security assistance: A pathway to recipient security sector reform0
The Yangtze and the Sino-US cooperation in World War II, 1940–19450
From the editors0
Correction0
Iranian proxies in the Syrian conflict: Tehran’s ‘forward-defence’ in action0
What lies over the horizon? Remoteness and the evolution of American global counterterrorism0
Towards control and effectiveness: The Ministry of Defence and civil-military relations in India0
Israel’s inter-war campaigns doctrine: From opportunism to principle0
The meaning of China’s nuclear modernization0
Artificial intelligence in China’s revolution in military affairs0
Beyond Defection: Explaining the Tunisian and Egyptian militaries’ divergent roles in the Arab Spring0
Guns and butter: Measuring spillover and implications for technological competition0
A Swiss “Columbus” in Clausewitz’s homeland: How the works of Antoine-Henri de Jomini were received by the Prussian military before 18480
Robot wars: Autonomous drone swarms and the battlefield of the future0
Fall Grün : Hitler’s planned invasion of Czechoslovakia from the German perspective0
Anti-satellite warfare, proliferated satellites, and the future of space-based military surveillance0
Montesquieu: Strategist ahead of his time0
Imagining total onslaught: South African military threat scenarios and doctrinal change, 1953–19750
Correction0
On command0
Undersea nuclear forces: Survivability of Chinese, Russian, and US SSBNs0
Looking back to look forward: Autonomous systems, military revolutions, and the importance of cost0
Helping or hurting? The impact of foreign fighters on militant group behavior0
Oil and the great powers0
The Eagle and the Lion: Reassessing Anglo-American strategic planning and the foundations of U.S. grand strategy for World War II0
From the editors0
Technology is awesome, but so what?! Exploring the relevance of technologically inspired awe to the construction of military theories0
Do technology advances allow missile defences to make up ground?0
Mutually assured surveillance at risk: Anti-satellite weapons and cold war arms control0
Hidden hands: The failure of population-centric counterinsurgency in Afghanistan 2008-110
Emerging technologies and challenges to nuclear stability0
Governing the impact of emerging technologies: Actors, technologies, and regulation0
The digital cult of the offensive and the US military0
Going nuclear: The development of American strategic conceptions about cyber conflict0
When the coalition determines the mission: NATO’s detour in Libya0
The survivability of nuclear command-and-control capabilities0
Why jihadist foreign fighter leave local battlefields: Evidence from Chechnya0
How dawn turned into dusk: Scoping and closing possible nuclear futures after the Cold War0
Clausewitz at the nexus of competing fashions in Western strategic thought0
Mobilizing patriotic consumers: China’s new strategy of economic coercion0
China’s military strategy for a ‘new era’: Some change, more continuity, and tantalizing hints0
Is empathy a strategic imperative? A review essay0
China and the Taliban: Past as prologue?0
The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the concept of sea power0
Assessing Jean Lartéguy’s The Centurions for the past, present, and future of irregular warfare0
The spoilers from within: Allies and export controls0
Designing around NATO’s deterrence: Russia’s Nordic information confrontation strategy0
In (qualified) praise of fads and fashions0
The fulcrum of democratic civilian control: Re-imagining the role of defence ministries0
The new makers of modern strategy: From the ancient world to the digital age0
Explaining China’s large-scale land reclamation in the South China Sea: Timing and rationale0
From the editors0
Counterinsurgency comes home0
From the editors0
Protecting civilians or preserving NATO? Alliance entanglement and the Bosnian safe areas0
Michael Howard and Clausewitz0
Radical war: Data, attention and control in the 21st century0
Review of Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Pax Transatlantica and M.E. Sarotte, Not One InchReview of Pax Transatlantica: America and Europe in the Post–Cold War Era , by Jussi M. Ha0
State or soldier? Explaining China’s decisionmaking in India-China border crises0
China’s quest for quantum advantage—Strategic and defense innovation at a new frontier0
Wave blockers: When governments use foreign military interventions to offset transnational political currents0
The failures of Russian Aerospace Forces in the Russia–Ukraine war and the future of air power0
Undermining economic engagement and enlargement: The Kremlin’s impact on US foreign economic policy in Ukraine (1993–2001)0
Deterrence Studies: A field still in progress0
The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War0
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