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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Towards control and effectiveness: The Ministry of Defence and civil-military relations in India17
The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War17
The fulcrum of democratic civilian control: Re-imagining the role of defence ministries15
The spoilers from within: Allies and export controls13
Deterrence by denial in cyberspace12
The Ministry of National Defence in South Korea: Military dominance despite civilian supremacy?12
Artificial intelligence in China’s revolution in military affairs11
A Swiss “Columbus” in Clausewitz’s homeland: How the works of Antoine-Henri de Jomini were received by the Prussian military before 18489
From the editors9
Fortuna , chance, risk and opportunity in strategy from Antiquity to the Nuclear Age8
The myth of the nuclear revolution: Power politics in the atomic age7
Nuclear divergence between Britain and the United States: SDI and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty7
The war against Ukraine through the prism of Russian military thought6
Pulled East. The rise of China, Europe and French security policy in the Asia-Pacific6
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy6
Undermining economic engagement and enlargement: The Kremlin’s impact on US foreign economic policy in Ukraine (1993–2001)6
Hidden hands: The failure of population-centric counterinsurgency in Afghanistan 2008-116
We’ll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war6
The strategic-level effects of long-range strike weapons: A framework for analysis6
Who, exactly, will ban the bomb?6
Is the decline of war a delusion? The long peace phenomenon and the modernization peace – the explanation that refutes or subsumes all others6
Explaining the 2003 Iraq war (again) - Gore-war vs. Gore-peace revisited5
What is a military innovation and why it matters4
Here there be dragons? Chinese submarine options in the Arctic4
“No annihilation without representation”: NATO nuclear use decision-making during the Cold War4
Deterrence asymmetry and strategic stability in Europe4
Learning from losing: How defeat shapes coalition dynamics in wartime4
The digital cult of the offensive and the US military4
When the coalition determines the mission: NATO’s detour in Libya4
Speaking with one voice: Coalitions and wartime diplomacy4
Anticipatory governance and new weapons of war: Lessons from the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons4
Grand strategy or grant strategy? Philanthropic foundations, strategic studies and the American academy3
Stability and change in nuclear thinking: Grand strategy, nuclear weapons, and policy change3
The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the concept of sea power3
A new and better quiet option? Strategies of subversion and cyber conflict3
Will inter-state war take place in cities?3
Going nuclear: The development of American strategic conceptions about cyber conflict2
Andrew Marshall and net assessment2
How small states break oil sanctions: Israel’s oil import strategy in the 1970s2
Introduction2
Strategic studies and cyber warfare2
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
Looking back to look forward: Autonomous systems, military revolutions, and the importance of cost2
On command2
Imagining total onslaught: South African military threat scenarios and doctrinal change, 1953–19752
From the editors2
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 an2
How the Russian army changed its concept of war, 1993–20222
Schwerpunkt and the center of gravity in comparative perspective: From Clausewitz to JP 5-01
Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare: The USA, China, and strategic stability1
From the editors1
China and the Taliban: Past as prologue?1
Correction1
Unpacking the varying strategic logics of total defence1
Israel’s inter-war campaigns doctrine: From opportunism to principle1
What we disagree about when we disagree about doctrine1
Technological determinism or strategic advantage? Comparing the two Karabakh Wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan1
Issue linkage in security assistance: A pathway to recipient security sector reform1
In the blind spot: Influence operations and sub-threshold situational awareness in Norway1
Aligning tactics with strategy: Vertical implementation of military doctrine1
Why rebels rely on terrorists: The persistence of the Taliban-al-Qaeda battlefield coalition in Afghanistan1
From the editors1
China’s military strategy for a ‘new era’: Some change, more continuity, and tantalizing hints1
Killing them softly: China’s counterspace developments and force posture in space1
Iranian proxies in the Syrian conflict: Tehran’s ‘forward-defence’ in action1
Helping or hurting? The impact of foreign fighters on militant group behavior1
Michael Howard and Clausewitz1
Clausewitz at the nexus of competing fashions in Western strategic thought1
Guns and butter: Measuring spillover and implications for technological competition1
What does NATO do for you? Advancing the debate on NATO’s endurance and enlargement1
Introduction to the special issue1
Building engines for war: Air-cooled radial aircraft engine production in Britain and America in World War II1
A one-way attack drone revolution? Affordable mass precision in modern conflict1
Hear no evil, see no evil: Why the United States gets net assessment wrong1
From the editors1
North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs: Foreign absorption and domestic innovation1
Why jihadist foreign fighter leave local battlefields: Evidence from Chechnya1
Military-technological innovation in small states: The cases of Israel and Singapore1
The role of tri-liminality in the UK’s security force assistance to Nigerian counterinsurgency: A Principal-Agent perspective1
The maritime perspective: Placing the oceans in the study of the Second World War1
The rise of the autocratic nuclear marketplace1
Red lines: Enforcement, declaration, and ambiguity in the Cuban Missile Crisis1
Organizational strategy and its implications for strategic studies: A review essay0
Navigating the AI frontier: Insights from the Ukraine conflict for NATO’s governance role in military AI0
From the editors0
How leaders exercise emergent strategy? Lessons from Moshe Dayan0
Do technology advances allow missile defences to make up ground?0
Montesquieu: Strategist ahead of his time0
How dawn turned into dusk: Scoping and closing possible nuclear futures after the Cold War0
The survivability of nuclear command-and-control capabilities0
From the editors0
The role of defence countertrade in Chinese geoeconomic diplomacy0
Technology is awesome, but so what?! Exploring the relevance of technologically inspired awe to the construction of military theories0
The new makers of modern strategy: From the ancient world to the digital age0
Success defying all expectations: How and why limited use of force helped to end Somali piracy0
Is empathy a strategic imperative? A review essay0
New technology, old strategy: Cyberspace and the international politics of African agency0
Anti-satellite warfare, proliferated satellites, and the future of space-based military surveillance0
Systemic effects of economic interdependence and the militarisation of diplomacy: 1914 and beyond0
Awe for strategic effect: Hardly worth the trouble0
Emerging technologies and challenges to nuclear stability0
An unstable equilibrium: Civil-military relations within the French Ministry of Defence0
China’s quest for quantum advantage—Strategic and defense innovation at a new frontier0
‘Hybrid warfare’ as an academic fashion0
Defense innovation in Russia in the 2010s0
From the editors0
Deterrence, reassurance and strategic stability: The enduring relevance of Johan Jørgen Holst0
Mutually assured surveillance at risk: Anti-satellite weapons and cold war arms control0
Explaining China’s large-scale land reclamation in the South China Sea: Timing and rationale0
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: A scene-setter0
The dual ‘dual’ policy: Two conceptions of ‘deterrence and reassurance’ in Norwegian security policy and analyses0
How the United States lost the “forever war”0
Protecting civilians or preserving NATO? Alliance entanglement and the Bosnian safe areas0
State or soldier? Explaining China’s decisionmaking in India-China border crises0
Which way to turn? Recent directions in writing about the American Civil War0
Oil and the great powers0
In (qualified) praise of fads and fashions0
From the editors0
Seeking a new military balance: Hans von Beseler’s concepts for rebuilding the German fortification system in the east0
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
History is written by the losers: Strategy and grand strategy in the aftermath of war0
From the editors0
From the editors0
Command and military effectiveness in rebel and hybrid battlefield coalitions0
Correction0
Radical war: Data, attention and control in the 21st century0
China’s test of the nuclear revolution: Technology, great power competition and the nuclear balance0
The weakest link: The vulnerability of U.S. and allied global information networks in the nuclear age0
Was the 600-ship navy a chimera? Budgets, force structure, and the political realities behind Reagan-era naval strategy0
The failures of Russian Aerospace Forces in the Russia–Ukraine war and the future of air power0
Assessing Jean Lartéguy’s The Centurions for the past, present, and future of irregular warfare0
From the editors0
Norway, deterrence, reassurance and strategic stability in Europe0
Information security in the space age: Britain’s Skynet satellite communications program and the evolution of modern command and control networks0
Trust but verify: Satellite reconnaissance, secrecy and arms control during the Cold War0
A conceptual framework of defence innovation0
Arms control and innovation: Precedents for U.S.-Russian technology regulation from the Cold War0
Examining India’s defence innovation performance0
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
Designing around NATO’s deterrence: Russia’s Nordic information confrontation strategy0
The transatlantic basis of war and peace, 1914–19170
Undersea nuclear forces: Survivability of Chinese, Russian, and US SSBNs0
Beyond Defection: Explaining the Tunisian and Egyptian militaries’ divergent roles in the Arab Spring0
From the editors0
Reply to Frank Harvey – what counterfactuals cannot do0
The meaning of China’s nuclear modernization0
The Eagle and the Lion: Reassessing Anglo-American strategic planning and the foundations of U.S. grand strategy for World War II0
Protecting China’s interests overseas: Securitization and foreign policy0
China’s defence semiconductor industrial base in an age of globalisation: Cross-strait dynamics and regional security implications0
Understanding battlefield coalitions0
The defense innovation machine: Why the U.S. will remain on the cutting edge0
Governing the impact of emerging technologies: Actors, technologies, and regulation0
Counterinsurgency comes home0
From the editors0
From closed to open systems: How the US military services pursue innovation0
From the editors0
Counterinsurgency as fad: America’s rushed engagement with irregular warfare0
Reversal of nuclear-conventional entanglement in outer space0
The Abbottabad raid and the theory of special operations0
The end of MAD? Technological innovation and the future of nuclear retaliatory capabilities0
Rethinking Gore-War: Counterfactuals and the 2003 Iraq War0
Deterrence Studies: A field still in progress0
From the editors0
Understanding Russia’s war against Ukraine: Political, eschatological and cataclysmic dimensions0
Evolving towards military innovation: AI and the Australian Army0
From the editors0
Mobilizing patriotic consumers: China’s new strategy of economic coercion0
From the editors0
The genesis of the first strategic stealth bomber: Understanding the interactions between strategy, bureaucracy, politics, and technology0
Robot wars: Autonomous drone swarms and the battlefield of the future0
Evolution of the Argentina Ministry of Defense since 1983: Organizations, norms, and personnel0
A century of coalitions in battle: Incidence, composition, and performance, 1900-20030
Ceci n’est pas une nuke? The impact of emerging militarised technologies on strategic stability0
Wave blockers: When governments use foreign military interventions to offset transnational political currents0
The Yangtze and the Sino-US cooperation in World War II, 1940–19450
Tracking mobile missiles0
Israelpolitik: German-Israeli relations, 1949-690
Did the Bush Administration mean well?0
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