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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A bolt from the blue: NATO’s misconception of Soviet military strategy	36
Current Russian perspectives on strategic stability and deterrence through the prism of strategic culture	32
Deterrence asymmetry and strategic stability in Europe	25
Coercion by military assistance: A two-level strategy	24
From the editors	14
From the editors	13
From the editors	12
Hear no evil, see no evil: Why the United States gets net assessment wrong	12
A one-way attack drone revolution? Affordable mass precision in modern conflict	11
Battlefield knowledge and barracks reality: Learning practices within the Netherlands Army	10
Strategic studies and cyber warfare	10
When competition becomes contagious: Strategic arms racing spillovers, alliance politics, and the Sino-American nuclear competition	10
Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture	10
Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare: The USA, China, and strategic stability	10
On military restoration: How militaries recover from battlefield surprise	10
Evolving towards military innovation: AI and the Australian Army	9
From the editors	8
What contributions do anti-insurgent militias produce during armed conflict? Exploring the capabilities of anti-insurgent militias in Colombia and the Philippines	8
History is written by the losers: Strategy and grand strategy in the aftermath of war	7
‘Like-minded and like-acting.’ Central Europe, the West, and the overlooked factor of the Warsaw Pact’s demise	7
Did the Bush Administration mean well?	6
The weakest link: The vulnerability of U.S. and allied global information networks in the nuclear age	6
Stuxnet revisited: From cyber warfare to secret statecraft	6
Tracking mobile missiles	6
Evolution of the Argentina Ministry of Defense since 1983: Organizations, norms, and personnel	6

From the editors	6
The transatlantic basis of war and peace, 1914–1917	6
From the editors	6
The strategic-level effects of long-range strike weapons: A framework for analysis	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
We’ll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war	5
Explaining the 2003 Iraq war (again) - Gore-war vs. Gore-peace revisited	5
Building engines for war: Air-cooled radial aircraft engine production in Britain and America in World War II	5
Anticipatory governance and new weapons of war: Lessons from the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons	5
The effectiveness of coercive intelligence disclosure: The case of Israel and the German scientists in Egypt	4
The deterrence-provocation continuum in the context of Russian strategic culture: Hypersensitivity, holism-conspiracism, and sacred great power status	4
Re-examining the introduction of 280 mm Cannons and Honest John Rockets into Korea, January 1958	4
How small states break oil sanctions: Israel’s oil import strategy in the 1970s	4
Unpacking the varying strategic logics of total defence	4
The end of MAD? Technological innovation and the future of nuclear retaliatory capabilities	4
Reply to Frank Harvey – what counterfactuals cannot do	4
What does NATO do for you? Advancing the debate on NATO’s endurance and enlargement	4
“Hamas is deterred” as wishful thinking: An analysis of how Israel empowered Hamas to attack Israel on October 7	3
How the United States lost the “forever war”	3
Awe for strategic effect: Hardly worth the trouble	3
Rethinking Gore-War: Counterfactuals and the 2003 Iraq War	3
Counterinsurgency as fad: America’s rushed engagement with irregular warfare	3
The genesis of the first strategic stealth bomber: Understanding the interactions between strategy, bureaucracy, politics, and technology	3
Ceci n’est pas une nuke? The impact of emerging militarised technologies on strategic stability	3
New technology, old strategy: Cyberspace and the international politics of African agency	3
Which way to turn? Recent directions in writing about the American Civil War	3
Is India underbalancing China?	3
Is the decline of war a delusion? An exchange between researchers following the publication of Azar Gat’s article on the subject	3
Norway, deterrence, reassurance and strategic stability in Europe	3
Hybrid times: War and peace in military innovation studies	2
The Ministry of National Defence in South Korea: Military dominance despite civilian supremacy?	2
BOOK REVIEW	2
Structure amid change: The global nuclear order and the Soviet collapse	2
Know Thy Enemy? Generating, negotiating and codifying knowledge of insurgencies into U.S. Counterinsurgency doctrine, 2004–2006	2
Why definitions matter: Victory, security, and the strategy gap	2
Understanding Russia’s war against Ukraine: Political, eschatological and cataclysmic dimensions	2
From the editors	2
Grand strategy or grant strategy? Philanthropic foundations, strategic studies and the American academy	2
Schwerpunkt and the center of gravity in comparative perspective: From Clausewitz to JP 5-0	2
Reversal of nuclear-conventional entanglement in outer space	2
Killing them softly: China’s counterspace developments and force posture in space	2
Trust but verify: Satellite reconnaissance, secrecy and arms control during the Cold War	2
“No annihilation without representation”: NATO nuclear use decision-making during the Cold War	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
Introduction to the special issue	2
China’s test of the nuclear revolution: Technology, great power competition and the nuclear balance	2
A new and better quiet option? Strategies of subversion and cyber conflict	1
The digital cult of the offensive and the US military	1
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

War in the Black Sea: The revival of the Jeune École?	1
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: A scene-setter	1
State or soldier? Explaining China’s decisionmaking in India-China border crises	1
Don’t judge islands by their sizes: The role of remote Japanese islands in the regional military balance	1
Robot wars: Autonomous drone swarms and the battlefield of the future	1
A Realism for the twenty-first century? Just maybe	1
Navigating the AI frontier: Insights from the Ukraine conflict for NATO’s governance role in military AI	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
The evolutionary roots of war and peace	1
Undermining economic engagement and enlargement: The Kremlin’s impact on US foreign economic policy in Ukraine (1993–2001)	1
Anti-satellite warfare, proliferated satellites, and the future of space-based military surveillance	1
Hidden hands: The failure of population-centric counterinsurgency in Afghanistan 2008-11	1
Beyond cultural determinism: Rethinking military effectiveness in the Gulf monarchies	1
Mapping the cognitive warfare literature: A strategic analysis (1981–2025)	1
Arms control and innovation: Precedents for U.S.-Russian technology regulation from the Cold War	1
Information security in the space age: Britain’s Skynet satellite communications program and the evolution of modern command and control networks	1
Correction	1
Seeking a new military balance: Hans von Beseler’s concepts for rebuilding the German fortification system in the east	1
Technological determinism or strategic advantage? Comparing the two Karabakh Wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan	1
Deterrence, reassurance and strategic stability: The enduring relevance of Johan Jørgen Holst	1
Indefinite by design: Bureaucracy, strategic planning, and the early Global War on Terror, 2001–2006	1
Assessing Jean Lartéguy’s The Centurions for the past, present, and future of irregular warfare	1
Is empathy a strategic imperative? A review essay	1
Clausewitz at the nexus of competing fashions in Western strategic thought	1
From the editors	1
Narratives of victory: Obama, killing bin Laden, and the 2012 election	1
From the editors	1
Patron problems: Local sovereignty, limited leverage, and tough tradeoffs in U.S. Intervention strategies in Vietnam and Iraq	1
An unstable equilibrium: Civil-military relations within the French Ministry of Defence	1
The dual ‘dual’ policy: Two conceptions of ‘deterrence and reassurance’ in Norwegian security policy and analyses	1
Was the 600-ship navy a chimera? Budgets, force structure, and the political realities behind Reagan-era naval strategy	1
South Africa’s disarmament and its ramifications: From the NPT to the Treaty of Pelindaba and MTCR adherence, 1988–1995	1
The Eagle and the Lion: Reassessing Anglo-American strategic planning and the foundations of U.S. grand strategy for World War II	1
Israel’s inter-war campaigns doctrine: From opportunism to principle	1
Designing around NATO’s deterrence: Russia’s Nordic information confrontation strategy	1
From the editors	1
Beyond Defection: Explaining the Tunisian and Egyptian militaries’ divergent roles in the Arab Spring	1
‘Neville, you must remember you don’t know anything about foreign affairs’: Assurance, air power, and alternative histories to appeasement	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
Why civilians don’t defer to military preferences about cyber strategy like they do for other domains	1