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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A bolt from the blue: NATO’s misconception of Soviet military strategy	37
Current Russian perspectives on strategic stability and deterrence through the prism of strategic culture	33
Deterrence asymmetry and strategic stability in Europe	26
Coercion by military assistance: A two-level strategy	24
From the editors	14
From the editors	14
Hear no evil, see no evil: Why the United States gets net assessment wrong	13
From the editors	13
A one-way attack drone revolution? Affordable mass precision in modern conflict	12
When competition becomes contagious: Strategic arms racing spillovers, alliance politics, and the Sino-American nuclear competition	10
The evolution of China’s ballistic missile defense	10
Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare: The USA, China, and strategic stability	10
Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture	10
Battlefield knowledge and barracks reality: Learning practices within the Netherlands Army	10
Strategic studies and cyber warfare	10
Evolving towards military innovation: AI and the Australian Army	9
On military restoration: How militaries recover from battlefield surprise	9
What contributions do anti-insurgent militias produce during armed conflict? Exploring the capabilities of anti-insurgent militias in Colombia and the Philippines	8
‘Like-minded and like-acting.’ Central Europe, the West, and the overlooked factor of the Warsaw Pact’s demise	7
From the editors	7
History is written by the losers: Strategy and grand strategy in the aftermath of war	6
The weakest link: The vulnerability of U.S. and allied global information networks in the nuclear age	6
Did the Bush Administration mean well?	6
The transatlantic basis of war and peace, 1914–1917	6
Evolution of the Argentina Ministry of Defense since 1983: Organizations, norms, and personnel	6

Tracking mobile missiles	6
From the editors	6
From the editors	6
Anticipatory governance and new weapons of war: Lessons from the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons	5
Stuxnet revisited: From cyber warfare to secret statecraft	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 strategic-level effects of long-range strike weapons: A framework for analysis	5
Explaining the 2003 Iraq war (again) - Gore-war vs. Gore-peace revisited	5
The intelligence intellectuals: Social scientists and the making of the CIA	4
How small states break oil sanctions: Israel’s oil import strategy in the 1970s	4
The effectiveness of coercive intelligence disclosure: The case of Israel and the German scientists in Egypt	4
The end of MAD? Technological innovation and the future of nuclear retaliatory capabilities	4
We’ll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war	4
Re-examining the introduction of 280 mm Cannons and Honest John Rockets into Korea, January 1958	4
Unpacking the varying strategic logics of total defence	4
Building engines for war: Air-cooled radial aircraft engine production in Britain and America in World War II	4
What does NATO do for you? Advancing the debate on NATO’s endurance and enlargement	4
The deterrence-provocation continuum in the context of Russian strategic culture: Hypersensitivity, holism-conspiracism, and sacred great power status	3
Counterinsurgency as fad: America’s rushed engagement with irregular warfare	3
Is the decline of war a delusion? An exchange between researchers following the publication of Azar Gat’s article on the subject	3
Trust but verify: Satellite reconnaissance, secrecy and arms control during the Cold War	3
Is India underbalancing China?	3
How the United States lost the “forever war”	3
The genesis of the first strategic stealth bomber: Understanding the interactions between strategy, bureaucracy, politics, and technology	3
Reply to Frank Harvey – what counterfactuals cannot do	3
“Hamas is deterred” as wishful thinking: An analysis of how Israel empowered Hamas to attack Israel on October 7	3
Awe for strategic effect: Hardly worth the trouble	3
Understanding Russia’s war against Ukraine: Political, eschatological and cataclysmic dimensions	2
Grand strategy or grant strategy? Philanthropic foundations, strategic studies and the American academy	2
Reversal of nuclear-conventional entanglement in outer space	2
Introduction to the special issue	2
Why definitions matter: Victory, security, and the strategy gap	2
The Ministry of National Defence in South Korea: Military dominance despite civilian supremacy?	2
Rethinking Gore-War: Counterfactuals and the 2003 Iraq War	2
New technology, old strategy: Cyberspace and the international politics of African agency	2
Schwerpunkt and the center of gravity in comparative perspective: From Clausewitz to JP 5-0	2
Know Thy Enemy? Generating, negotiating and codifying knowledge of insurgencies into U.S. Counterinsurgency doctrine, 2004–2006	2
China’s test of the nuclear revolution: Technology, great power competition and the nuclear balance	2
BOOK REVIEW	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
Hybrid times: War and peace in military innovation studies	2
Killing them softly: China’s counterspace developments and force posture in space	2
Structure amid change: The global nuclear order and the Soviet collapse	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
From the editors	2
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: A scene-setter	1
Technological determinism or strategic advantage? Comparing the two Karabakh Wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan	1
Indefinite by design: Bureaucracy, strategic planning, and the early Global War on Terror, 2001–2006	1
Seeking a new military balance: Hans von Beseler’s concepts for rebuilding the German fortification system in the east	1

From the editors	1
Robot wars: Autonomous drone swarms and the battlefield of the future	1
Hidden hands: The failure of population-centric counterinsurgency in Afghanistan 2008-11	1
Navigating the AI frontier: Insights from the Ukraine conflict for NATO’s governance role in military AI	1
A new and better quiet option? Strategies of subversion and cyber conflict	1
The evolutionary roots of war and peace	1
South Africa’s disarmament and its ramifications: From the NPT to the Treaty of Pelindaba and MTCR adherence, 1988–1995	1
The new makers of modern strategy: From the ancient world to the digital age	1
China’s defence semiconductor industrial base in an age of globalisation: Cross-strait dynamics and regional security implications	1
Assessing Jean Lartéguy’s The Centurions for the past, present, and future of irregular warfare	1
Mapping the cognitive warfare literature: A strategic analysis (1981–2025)	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
Correction	1
From the editors	1
The Eagle and the Lion: Reassessing Anglo-American strategic planning and the foundations of U.S. grand strategy for World War II	1
Who, exactly, will ban the bomb?	1
Deterrence, reassurance and strategic stability: The enduring relevance of Johan Jørgen Holst	1
The digital cult of the offensive and the US military	1
Why civilians don’t defer to military preferences about cyber strategy like they do for other domains	1
Undermining economic engagement and enlargement: The Kremlin’s impact on US foreign economic policy in Ukraine (1993–2001)	1
‘Neville, you must remember you don’t know anything about foreign affairs’: Assurance, air power, and alternative histories to appeasement	1
Information security in the space age: Britain’s Skynet satellite communications program and the evolution of modern command and control networks	1
Clausewitz at the nexus of competing fashions in Western strategic thought	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
An unstable equilibrium: Civil-military relations within the French Ministry of Defence	1
Don’t judge islands by their sizes: The role of remote Japanese islands in the regional military balance	1
Undersea nuclear forces: Survivability of Chinese, Russian, and US SSBNs	1
State or soldier? Explaining China’s decisionmaking in India-China border crises	1
Anti-satellite warfare, proliferated satellites, and the future of space-based military surveillance	1
From the editors	1
Designing around NATO’s deterrence: Russia’s Nordic information confrontation strategy	1
Beyond cultural determinism: Rethinking military effectiveness in the Gulf monarchies	1
Narratives of victory: Obama, killing bin Laden, and the 2012 election	1
Patron problems: Local sovereignty, limited leverage, and tough tradeoffs in U.S. Intervention strategies in Vietnam and Iraq	1
Is empathy a strategic imperative? A review essay	1
Arms control and innovation: Precedents for U.S.-Russian technology regulation from the Cold War	1
Israel’s inter-war campaigns doctrine: From opportunism to principle	1
War in the Black Sea: The revival of the Jeune École?	1