The subject of war and its impact on world cultures is potentially vast, and the Journal of War and Cultural Studies has a broad but clearly-defined research field, taking as its principal focus the relationship between war and culture in the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first, primarily in Europe but not excluding other areas involved in conflict, although these will retain a focus on their relationship to Europe.

The latest issue (vol. 3, issue 1, 2010) includes these articles:
Cubist chameleons: André Mare, the camoufleurs and the canons of art history
Claire I. R. O'mahony
The politics of display in post-Franco Spain: Max Aub at the Reina Sofía
Silvina Schammah Gesser
Hans Haacke versus the myth of Volk
Johan Åhr
Remember, remember, 11 September: memorializing 9/11 on the Internet
Lee Jarvis
The Iraq casualty, the listed monument and the missing child: the multiple roles of war memorials in the contemporary United Kingdom
Catherine Switzer
Western modernity, narratives and the pornography of death
Syed Haider
Languages at war: cultural preparations for the Liberation of Western Europe
Hilary Footitt
Questioning the Nazis: languages and effectiveness in British war crime investigations and trials in Germany, 1945–48
Simona Tobia
‘It's not their job to soldier’: distinguishing civilian and military in soldiers' and interpreters' accounts of peacekeeping in 1990s Bosnia-Herzegovina
Catherine Baker