Journal of Strategic Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Strategic Studies is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Learning from losing: How defeat shapes coalition dynamics in wartime27
Deterrence asymmetry and strategic stability in Europe24
Andrew Marshall and net assessment21
From the editors18
From the editors17
Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare: The USA, China, and strategic stability16
From the editors15
Hear no evil, see no evil: Why the United States gets net assessment wrong12
Strategic studies and cyber warfare11
When competition becomes contagious: Strategic arms racing spillovers, alliance politics, and the Sino-American nuclear competition9
Battlefield knowledge and barracks reality: Learning practices within the Netherlands Army9
Red lines: Enforcement, declaration, and ambiguity in the Cuban Missile Crisis9
A one-way attack drone revolution? Affordable mass precision in modern conflict8
On military restoration: How militaries recover from battlefield surprise8
The maritime perspective: Placing the oceans in the study of the Second World War8
In the blind spot: Influence operations and sub-threshold situational awareness in Norway8
Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture8
Evolving towards military innovation: AI and the Australian Army7
What contributions do anti-insurgent militias produce during armed conflict? Exploring the capabilities of anti-insurgent militias in Colombia and the Philippines7
Did the Bush Administration mean well?6
From the editors6
History is written by the losers: Strategy and grand strategy in the aftermath of war6
Tracking mobile missiles6
Organizational strategy and its implications for strategic studies: A review essay5
The transatlantic basis of war and peace, 1914–19175
‘Like-minded and like-acting.’ Central Europe, the West, and the overlooked factor of the Warsaw Pact’s demise5
Evolution of the Argentina Ministry of Defense since 1983: Organizations, norms, and personnel4
Is the decline of war a delusion? The long peace phenomenon and the modernization peace – the explanation that refutes or subsumes all others4
The strategic-level effects of long-range strike weapons: A framework for analysis4
Anticipatory governance and new weapons of war: Lessons from the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons4
Stuxnet revisited: From cyber warfare to secret statecraft4
Explaining the 2003 Iraq war (again) - Gore-war vs. Gore-peace revisited4
What does NATO do for you? Advancing the debate on NATO’s endurance and enlargement4
The weakest link: The vulnerability of U.S. and allied global information networks in the nuclear age4
Speaking with one voice: Coalitions and wartime diplomacy4
We’ll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war4
Building engines for war: Air-cooled radial aircraft engine production in Britain and America in World War II4
The end of MAD? Technological innovation and the future of nuclear retaliatory capabilities3
Unpacking the varying strategic logics of total defence3
“Hamas is deterred” as wishful thinking: An analysis of how Israel empowered Hamas to attack Israel on October 73
How small states break oil sanctions: Israel’s oil import strategy in the 1970s3
Counterinsurgency as fad: America’s rushed engagement with irregular warfare3
Is India underbalancing China?3
The rise of the autocratic nuclear marketplace3
Reply to Frank Harvey – what counterfactuals cannot do3
Understanding Russia’s war against Ukraine: Political, eschatological and cataclysmic dimensions2
Rethinking Gore-War: Counterfactuals and the 2003 Iraq War2
The genesis of the first strategic stealth bomber: Understanding the interactions between strategy, bureaucracy, politics, and technology2
Trust but verify: Satellite reconnaissance, secrecy and arms control during the Cold War2
What is a military innovation and why it matters2
Will inter-state war take place in cities?2
Hybrid times: War and peace in military innovation studies2
Why rebels rely on terrorists: The persistence of the Taliban-al-Qaeda battlefield coalition in Afghanistan2
Norway, deterrence, reassurance and strategic stability in Europe2
From the editors2
Which way to turn? Recent directions in writing about the American Civil War2
Protecting China’s interests overseas: Securitization and foreign policy2
The Ministry of National Defence in South Korea: Military dominance despite civilian supremacy?2
From the editors2
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, Oxfor2
Ceci n’est pas une nuke? The impact of emerging militarised technologies on strategic stability2
Awe for strategic effect: Hardly worth the trouble2
How the United States lost the “forever war”2
Is the decline of war a delusion? An exchange between researchers following the publication of Azar Gat’s article on the subject2
New technology, old strategy: Cyberspace and the international politics of African agency2
“No annihilation without representation”: NATO nuclear use decision-making during the Cold War2
Grand strategy or grant strategy? Philanthropic foundations, strategic studies and the American academy2
Killing them softly: China’s counterspace developments and force posture in space2
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