My forthcoming edited work on history of Infantry:

Current confidence in the present role and future potential of drones wrongly suggests that infantry is passed, finally redundant in an age of technology, as it already should have been for over a century in the shadow of artillery and in the face of tanks. This is mistaken as an account of today but also of the past, for, in both, the role of infantry has been underrated. Instead, as discussed in this volume, the presence of infantry has been fundamental to warfare and therefore changes in its characteristics, both absolute and relative to other arms, are of great consequence. This volume provides an opportunity to make this case and, in doing so, we have deliberately focused on military history outside its Western European concentration, for discussion of the military history of Western Europe and North America, particularly in the last half-millennium, overly dominates the literature, classifications, chronology and methodology of the subject. This volume is important both for what it offers for the present and for what it suggests for future work.