Part I Strategy and Conduct of War -- 1 Western Way of War -- 2 Strategic Thought: The Relevance of Clausewitz -- 3 Development of Modern Couterinsurgency Theory and Doctrine -- 4 Air Power: The Quest to Remove Battle from War -- 5 Sea Power 6 Land Warfare: Attrition and Manoeuvre -- Part II Aspects of Modern War -- 7 After the RMA: Contemporary Intelligence, Power and War -- 8 Cyberwar -- 9 Twentieth Century Military Spending Patterns -- 10 The Politics of the Contemporary Trade in Major Conventional Weapons -- 11 Turning War into Business: Private Security Companies and Commercial Opportunism -- 12 Women in the Armed Forces of Western Democracies -- 13 Women and World War II -- Part III Morality and Law -- 14 Ethics and the Enduring Relevance of Just War Theory in the Twenty-first Century -- 15 Lying Down with Dogs: The Inadequacy of Machiavellianism as a Basis for US Foreign Policy -- 16 Civilization and Savagery -- 17 International Law: Military Force and Armed Conflict -- 18 Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide, Crimes against Humanity and the Use of Force -- 19 "Forgetful Warriors": Neglected Lessons on Leadership from Plato's Republic -- Part IV Perceptions and Representations of Warfare -- 20 Land of Ghosts? Memories of War in the Balkans -- 21 Cinema and the Cold War: An International Perspective -- 22 Music as an Inspiration for Combat among American Soldiers in Iraq -- 23 Media War and Media Management -- 24 From Psychological Warfare to Information Operations and Back Again -- 25 Small Wars and Telecommunication.