The Resource The future of war : a history, Lawrence Freedman
The future of war : a history, Lawrence Freedman
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- Summary
- Publisher Marketing: Questions about the future of war are a regular feature of political debate, strategic analysis, and popular fiction. Where should we look for new dangers? What cunning plans might an aggressor have in mind? What are the best forms of defense? How might peace be preserved or conflict resolved? From the French rout at Sedan in 1870 to the relentless contemporary insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, Lawrence Freedman, a world-renowned military thinker, reveals how most claims from the military futurists are wrong. But they remain influential nonetheless. Freedman shows how those who have imagined future war have often had an idealized notion of it as confined, brief, and decisive, and have regularly taken insufficient account of the possibility of long wars-hence the stubborn persistence of the idea of a knockout blow, whether through a dashing land offensive, nuclear first strike, or cyberattack. He also notes the lack of attention paid to civil wars until the West began to intervene in them during the 1990s, and how the boundaries between peace and war, between the military, the civilian, and the criminal are becoming increasingly blurred. Freedman's account of a century and a half of warfare and the (often misconceived) thinking that precedes war is a challenge to hawks and doves alike, and puts current strategic thinking into a bracing historical perspective
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxi, 376 pages
- Contents
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- Decisive battle
- Indecisive battle
- The house of strife
- Victory through cruelty
- Failures of peace
- Total war
- The balance of terror
- Stuck in the nuclear age
- A surprise peace
- A science of war
- Counting the dead
- Democracy and war
- New wars and failed states
- Ancient hatreds and mineral curses
- Intervention
- Counter-insurgency to counter-terrorism
- From counter-terrorism to counter-insurgency
- The role of barbarism
- Cure not prevention
- Hybrid wars
- Cyberwar
- Robots and drones
- Mega-cities and climate change
- Coming wars
- The future of the future of war
- Isbn
- 9781610393058
- Label
- The future of war : a history
- Title
- The future of war
- Title remainder
- a history
- Statement of responsibility
- Lawrence Freedman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Publisher Marketing: Questions about the future of war are a regular feature of political debate, strategic analysis, and popular fiction. Where should we look for new dangers? What cunning plans might an aggressor have in mind? What are the best forms of defense? How might peace be preserved or conflict resolved? From the French rout at Sedan in 1870 to the relentless contemporary insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, Lawrence Freedman, a world-renowned military thinker, reveals how most claims from the military futurists are wrong. But they remain influential nonetheless. Freedman shows how those who have imagined future war have often had an idealized notion of it as confined, brief, and decisive, and have regularly taken insufficient account of the possibility of long wars-hence the stubborn persistence of the idea of a knockout blow, whether through a dashing land offensive, nuclear first strike, or cyberattack. He also notes the lack of attention paid to civil wars until the West began to intervene in them during the 1990s, and how the boundaries between peace and war, between the military, the civilian, and the criminal are becoming increasingly blurred. Freedman's account of a century and a half of warfare and the (often misconceived) thinking that precedes war is a challenge to hawks and doves alike, and puts current strategic thinking into a bracing historical perspective
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Freedman, Lawrence,
- Dewey number
- 355.02
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- U21.2
- LC item number
- .F74 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- War
- War
- War
- HISTORY / Military / Strategy
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
- Label
- The future of war : a history, Lawrence Freedman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-361) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Decisive battle -- Indecisive battle -- The house of strife -- Victory through cruelty -- Failures of peace -- Total war -- The balance of terror -- Stuck in the nuclear age -- A surprise peace -- A science of war -- Counting the dead -- Democracy and war -- New wars and failed states -- Ancient hatreds and mineral curses -- Intervention -- Counter-insurgency to counter-terrorism -- From counter-terrorism to counter-insurgency -- The role of barbarism -- Cure not prevention -- Hybrid wars -- Cyberwar -- Robots and drones -- Mega-cities and climate change -- Coming wars -- The future of the future of war
- Control code
- 914195537
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxi, 376 pages
- Isbn
- 9781610393058
- Lccn
- 2017385463
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- The future of war : a history, Lawrence Freedman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-361) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Decisive battle -- Indecisive battle -- The house of strife -- Victory through cruelty -- Failures of peace -- Total war -- The balance of terror -- Stuck in the nuclear age -- A surprise peace -- A science of war -- Counting the dead -- Democracy and war -- New wars and failed states -- Ancient hatreds and mineral curses -- Intervention -- Counter-insurgency to counter-terrorism -- From counter-terrorism to counter-insurgency -- The role of barbarism -- Cure not prevention -- Hybrid wars -- Cyberwar -- Robots and drones -- Mega-cities and climate change -- Coming wars -- The future of the future of war
- Control code
- 914195537
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxi, 376 pages
- Isbn
- 9781610393058
- Lccn
- 2017385463
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
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