Understanding Land Warfare

Understanding Land Warfare, 2nd Edition, is a textbook that introduces the vocabulary, concepts, issues, and debates surrounding modern warfare on land. Christopher Tuck examines the distinctive features of the land domain and explains how they shape the theory and practice of military operations.

The volume addresses the conduct of land operations across conventional campaigning, counterinsurgency, and peace support and stabilisation missions. Major analytical themes include tensions between change and continuity, the role of technology, and the difficulties of translating military theory into practice.

Written for military practitioners and students of strategic studies, war studies, and military history, this edition examines conflicts from the First World War to contemporary fighting in Syria, Ukraine, and Nagorno-Karabakh.