| Description |
xvi, 430 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : understanding force -- Pt. 1. Interstate industrial war -- 1. Foundation : from Napoleon to Clausewitz -- 2. Development : iron, steam and mass -- 3. Culmination : the world wars -- Pt. 2. The Cold War confrontation -- 4. Antithesis : from guerrillas to anarchists to Mao -- 5. Confrontation and conflict : a new purpose for the use of force -- 6. Capabilities : the search for a new way -- Pt. 3. War amongst the people -- 7. Trends : our modern operations -- 8. Direction : setting the purpose for the use of force -- 9. Bosnia : using force amongst the people -- Conclusion : what is to be done? |
| Summary |
""War no longer exists," writes General Sir Rupert Smith, powerfully reminding us that the clash of mass national armies - the system of war since Napoleon - will never occur again. Instead, he argues in this timely book, we must be prepared to adapt tactics to each conflict, or lose the ability to protect ourselves and our way of life." "From Iraq to the Balkans, and from Afghanistan to Chechnya, Smith charts a stream of armed interventions that have failed to deliver on promises of resolution. He demonstrates why today's conflicts must be understood as intertwined political and military events. He makes clear why the current one-size-fits-all model of total war, fought out on battlefields, that politicians still cling to must be abandoned in favor of new strategies that take into account the fact that wars are now fought among civilian populations. And he offers a compelling new model for how to fight these battles - and secure our world."--BOOK JACKET |
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War.
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Military policy.
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Military art and science.
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World politics -- 21st century.
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| LC no. |
2006047393 |
| ISBN |
0307265625 |
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