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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Deterrence asymmetry and strategic stability in Europe	23
Learning from losing: How defeat shapes coalition dynamics in wartime	21
Pulled East. The rise of China, Europe and French security policy in the Asia-Pacific	20
Andrew Marshall and net assessment	17
Red lines: Enforcement, declaration, and ambiguity in the Cuban Missile Crisis	14
From the editors	14
In the blind spot: Influence operations and sub-threshold situational awareness in Norway	12
A one-way attack drone revolution? Affordable mass precision in modern conflict	11
Strategic studies and cyber warfare	10
On military restoration: How militaries recover from battlefield surprise	8
From the editors	8
Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare: The USA, China, and strategic stability	8
The maritime perspective: Placing the oceans in the study of the Second World War	8
Hear no evil, see no evil: Why the United States gets net assessment wrong	8
Evolving towards military innovation: AI and the Australian Army	7
History is written by the losers: Strategy and grand strategy in the aftermath of war	7
What contributions do anti-insurgent militias produce during armed conflict? Exploring the capabilities of anti-insurgent militias in Colombia and the Philippines	7
Did the Bush Administration mean well?	6
Organizational strategy and its implications for strategic studies: A review essay	6
From the editors	6
The weakest link: The vulnerability of U.S. and allied global information networks in the nuclear age	6
Tracking mobile missiles	6
The transatlantic basis of war and peace, 1914–1917	6
Stuxnet revisited: From cyber warfare to secret statecraft	5
Speaking with one voice: Coalitions and wartime diplomacy	4

Evolution of the Argentina Ministry of Defense since 1983: Organizations, norms, and personnel	4
The strategic-level effects of long-range strike weapons: A framework for analysis	4
Anticipatory governance and new weapons of war: Lessons from the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons	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
Explaining the 2003 Iraq war (again) - Gore-war vs. Gore-peace revisited	4
What does NATO do for you? Advancing the debate on NATO’s endurance and enlargement	3
How small states break oil sanctions: Israel’s oil import strategy in the 1970s	3
North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs: Foreign absorption and domestic innovation	3
The rise of the autocratic nuclear marketplace	3
The end of MAD? Technological innovation and the future of nuclear retaliatory capabilities	3
We’ll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war	3
Unpacking the varying strategic logics of total defence	3
Building engines for war: Air-cooled radial aircraft engine production in Britain and America in World War II	3
Is the decline of war a delusion? An exchange between researchers following the publication of Azar Gat’s article on the subject	2
Trust but verify: Satellite reconnaissance, secrecy and arms control during the Cold War	2
The Ministry of National Defence in South Korea: Military dominance despite civilian supremacy?	2
Deterrence by denial in cyberspace	2
Norway, deterrence, reassurance and strategic stability in Europe	2
Protecting China’s interests overseas: Securitization and foreign policy	2
Is India underbalancing China?	2
Reply to Frank Harvey – what counterfactuals cannot do	2
Awe for strategic effect: Hardly worth the trouble	2
Understanding Russia’s war against Ukraine: Political, eschatological and cataclysmic dimensions	2
From the editors	2
“No annihilation without representation”: NATO nuclear use decision-making during the Cold War	2
Which way to turn? Recent directions in writing about the American Civil War	2
How leaders exercise emergent strategy? Lessons from Moshe Dayan	2
How the United States lost the “forever war”	2
Rethinking Gore-War: Counterfactuals and the 2003 Iraq War	2
Ceci n’est pas une nuke? The impact of emerging militarised technologies on strategic stability	2
New technology, old strategy: Cyberspace and the international politics of African agency	2
Will inter-state war take place in cities?	2
Hybrid times: War and peace in military innovation studies	2
The genesis of the first strategic stealth bomber: Understanding the interactions between strategy, bureaucracy, politics, and technology	2
From the editors	2
Counterinsurgency as fad: America’s rushed engagement with irregular warfare	2
Why rebels rely on terrorists: The persistence of the Taliban-al-Qaeda battlefield coalition in Afghanistan	1
Grand strategy or grant strategy? Philanthropic foundations, strategic studies and the American academy	1
Examining India’s defence innovation performance	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
A new and better quiet option? Strategies of subversion and cyber conflict	1
Technological determinism or strategic advantage? Comparing the two Karabakh Wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan	1
Arms control and innovation: Precedents for U.S.-Russian technology regulation from the Cold War	1
Undermining economic engagement and enlargement: The Kremlin’s impact on US foreign economic policy in Ukraine (1993–2001)	1
Know Thy Enemy? Generating, negotiating and codifying knowledge of insurgencies into U.S. Counterinsurgency doctrine, 2004–2006	1
Was the 600-ship navy a chimera? Budgets, force structure, and the political realities behind Reagan-era naval strategy	1
Killing them softly: China’s counterspace developments and force posture in space	1
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	1
War in the Black Sea: The revival of the Jeune École?	1
Correction	1

The dual ‘dual’ policy: Two conceptions of ‘deterrence and reassurance’ in Norwegian security policy and analyses	1
Hidden hands: The failure of population-centric counterinsurgency in Afghanistan 2008-11	1
Who, exactly, will ban the bomb?	1
South Africa’s disarmament and its ramifications: From the NPT to the Treaty of Pelindaba and MTCR adherence, 1988–1995	1
Information security in the space age: Britain’s Skynet satellite communications program and the evolution of modern command and control networks	1
Reversal of nuclear-conventional entanglement in outer space	1
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: A scene-setter	1
Schwerpunkt and the center of gravity in comparative perspective: From Clausewitz to JP 5-0	1
What is a military innovation and why it matters	1
Introduction to the special issue	1
Understanding battlefield coalitions	1
From the editors	1
The digital cult of the offensive and the US military	1
China’s defence semiconductor industrial base in an age of globalisation: Cross-strait dynamics and regional security implications	1
An unstable equilibrium: Civil-military relations within the French Ministry of Defence	1
Command and military effectiveness in rebel and hybrid battlefield coalitions	1
China’s test of the nuclear revolution: Technology, great power competition and the nuclear balance	1