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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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning from losing: How defeat shapes coalition dynamics in wartime	27
Deterrence asymmetry and strategic stability in Europe	25
A bolt from the blue: NATO’s misconception of Soviet military strategy	22
From the editors	21
From the editors	18
From the editors	18
Hear no evil, see no evil: Why the United States gets net assessment wrong	16
Strategic studies and cyber warfare	13
A one-way attack drone revolution? Affordable mass precision in modern conflict	11
Battlefield knowledge and barracks reality: Learning practices within the Netherlands Army	11
In the blind spot: Influence operations and sub-threshold situational awareness in Norway	11
When competition becomes contagious: Strategic arms racing spillovers, alliance politics, and the Sino-American nuclear competition	11
Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare: The USA, China, and strategic stability	9
On military restoration: How militaries recover from battlefield surprise	9
The maritime perspective: Placing the oceans in the study of the Second World War	8
Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture	8
From the editors	7
Evolving towards military innovation: AI and the Australian Army	7
What contributions do anti-insurgent militias produce during armed conflict? Exploring the capabilities of anti-insurgent militias in Colombia and the Philippines	7
Tracking mobile missiles	6
Did the Bush Administration mean well?	6
The transatlantic basis of war and peace, 1914–1917	6
History is written by the losers: Strategy and grand strategy in the aftermath of war	6
‘Like-minded and like-acting.’ Central Europe, the West, and the overlooked factor of the Warsaw Pact’s demise	6
Speaking with one voice: Coalitions and wartime diplomacy	5

The weakest link: The vulnerability of U.S. and allied global information networks in the nuclear age	5
Stuxnet revisited: From cyber warfare to secret statecraft	5
Explaining the 2003 Iraq war (again) - Gore-war vs. Gore-peace revisited	5
Evolution of the Argentina Ministry of Defense since 1983: Organizations, norms, and personnel	5
What does NATO do for you? Advancing the debate on NATO’s endurance and enlargement	4
The strategic-level effects of long-range strike weapons: A framework for analysis	4
We’ll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war	4
How small states break oil sanctions: Israel’s oil import strategy in the 1970s	4
Anticipatory governance and new weapons of war: Lessons from the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons	4
The rise of the autocratic nuclear marketplace	4
Is the decline of war a delusion? The long peace phenomenon and the modernization peace – the explanation that refutes or subsumes all others	4
Building engines for war: Air-cooled radial aircraft engine production in Britain and America in World War II	4
Unpacking the varying strategic logics of total defence	3
Counterinsurgency as fad: America’s rushed engagement with irregular warfare	3
Which way to turn? Recent directions in writing about the American Civil War	3
Reply to Frank Harvey – what counterfactuals cannot do	3
Re-examining the introduction of 280 mm Cannons and Honest John Rockets into Korea, January 1958	3
Is the decline of war a delusion? An exchange between researchers following the publication of Azar Gat’s article on the subject	3
“Hamas is deterred” as wishful thinking: An analysis of how Israel empowered Hamas to attack Israel on October 7	3
The end of MAD? Technological innovation and the future of nuclear retaliatory capabilities	3
Is India underbalancing China?	3
How the United States lost the “forever war”	3
From the editors	2
The genesis of the first strategic stealth bomber: Understanding the interactions between strategy, bureaucracy, politics, and technology	2
From the editors	2
What is a military innovation and why it matters	2
Schwerpunkt and the center of gravity in comparative perspective: From Clausewitz to JP 5-0	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
Trust but verify: Satellite reconnaissance, secrecy and arms control during the Cold War	2
Rethinking Gore-War: Counterfactuals and the 2003 Iraq War	2
Awe for strategic effect: Hardly worth the trouble	2
Grand strategy or grant strategy? Philanthropic foundations, strategic studies and the American academy	2
“No annihilation without representation”: NATO nuclear use decision-making during the Cold War	2
Introduction to the special issue	2
Ceci n’est pas une nuke? The impact of emerging militarised technologies on strategic stability	2
Norway, deterrence, reassurance and strategic stability in Europe	2
Protecting China’s interests overseas: Securitization and foreign policy	2
Understanding Russia’s war against Ukraine: Political, eschatological and cataclysmic dimensions	2
Hybrid times: War and peace in military innovation studies	2
Killing them softly: China’s counterspace developments and force posture in space	2
The Ministry of National Defence in South Korea: Military dominance despite civilian supremacy?	2
New technology, old strategy: Cyberspace and the international politics of African agency	2
Who, exactly, will ban the bomb?	1
China’s defence semiconductor industrial base in an age of globalisation: Cross-strait dynamics and regional security implications	1
Understanding battlefield coalitions	1
Iranian proxies in the Syrian conflict: Tehran’s ‘forward-defence’ in action	1
Information security in the space age: Britain’s Skynet satellite communications program and the evolution of modern command and control networks	1
Assessing Jean Lartéguy’s The Centurions for the past, present, and future of irregular warfare	1
China’s test of the nuclear revolution: Technology, great power competition and the nuclear balance	1
A century of coalitions in battle: Incidence, composition, and performance, 1900-2003	1

The digital cult of the offensive and the US military	1
Is empathy a strategic imperative? A review essay	1
The new makers of modern strategy: From the ancient world to the digital age	1
Technological determinism or strategic advantage? Comparing the two Karabakh Wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan	1
Narratives of victory: Obama, killing bin Laden, and the 2012 election	1
The dual ‘dual’ policy: Two conceptions of ‘deterrence and reassurance’ in Norwegian security policy and analyses	1
An unstable equilibrium: Civil-military relations within the French Ministry of Defence	1
South Africa’s disarmament and its ramifications: From the NPT to the Treaty of Pelindaba and MTCR adherence, 1988–1995	1
War in the Black Sea: The revival of the Jeune École?	1
Know Thy Enemy? Generating, negotiating and codifying knowledge of insurgencies into U.S. Counterinsurgency doctrine, 2004–2006	1
From the editors	1
Was the 600-ship navy a chimera? Budgets, force structure, and the political realities behind Reagan-era naval strategy	1
Deterrence, reassurance and strategic stability: The enduring relevance of Johan Jørgen Holst	1
Why definitions matter: Victory, security, and the strategy gap	1
Why civilians don’t defer to military preferences about cyber strategy like they do for other domains	1
Israel’s inter-war campaigns doctrine: From opportunism to principle	1
Clausewitz at the nexus of competing fashions in Western strategic thought	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
Undermining economic engagement and enlargement: The Kremlin’s impact on US foreign economic policy in Ukraine (1993–2001)	1
Arms control and innovation: Precedents for U.S.-Russian technology regulation from the Cold War	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
Command and military effectiveness in rebel and hybrid battlefield coalitions	1
Beyond Defection: Explaining the Tunisian and Egyptian militaries’ divergent roles in the Arab Spring	1
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: A scene-setter	1
Anti-satellite warfare, proliferated satellites, and the future of space-based military surveillance	1
Reversal of nuclear-conventional entanglement in outer space	1
‘Neville, you must remember you don’t know anything about foreign affairs’: Assurance, air power, and alternative histories to appeasement	1
A new and better quiet option? Strategies of subversion and cyber conflict	1
Don’t judge islands by their sizes: The role of remote Japanese islands in the regional military balance	1
Correction	1