"War no longer exists," writes [the author], reminding us that the clash of mass national armies - the system of war since Napoleon - will never occur again. Instead, he argues, we must be prepared to adapt tactics to each conflict, or lose the ability to protect ourselves and o…
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The Greeks of the classical age invented not only the central idea of Western politics--that the power of state should be guided by a majority of its citizens--but also the central act of Western warfare, the decisive infantry battle. Instead of ambush, skirmish, maneuver, or co…
Shows how principles of modern physics have been used for warfare through the ages. His topics include the basic physics of early weapons, the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and the early English-French wars, how the discovery of gunpowder and cannons changed the art of war a…
As in his bestselling The 48 Laws of Power, Greene puts a modern spin on wisdom that has stood the test of history, only this time his role model is Sun Tzu rather than Machiavelli. The argument is fairly standard: despite our most noble intentions, "aggressive impulses that are…
Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives.
Prussian hero Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke was the architect of the German way of war.
Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke is best known for his direction of the German/Prussian campaigns against Austria in 1866 and France in 1870-71, yet it was during his service as chief of the General Staff that he laid the foundation for the German way of war which would con…
"Jeremy Black's book prophetically explores the realities of war in a globalized world where growing prosperity can increase the likelihood of conflict and American power is likely to be increasingly challenged." "Black conducts his argument in terms of New World Disorder, speci…
There are several purposes to this book. One is to resurrect wisdom long forgotten that is still of great relevance today. Some ideas in these early works are attributed currently to later, more modern authors, who either reinvented the wheel or actually took the ideas from thes…
There are several purposes to this book. One is to resurrect wisdom long forgotten that is still of great relevance today. Some ideas in these early works are attributed currently to later, more modern authors, who either reinvented the wheel or actually took the ideas from thes…