Introduction: What, why, how --- Contemporary war --- By whom war is fought --- What war is all about --- How war is fought --- What war is fought for --- Why war is fought --- Future war --- Postscript: The shape of things to come
Summary
At a time when unprecedented change in international affairs is forcing governments, citizens, and armed forces everywhere to re-assess the question of whether military solutions to political problems are possible any longer, Martin van Creveld has written an audacious searching examination of the nature of war and of its radical transformation in our own time. -- Published description
Analysis
Military operations Strategy History
Military operations Strategy History
Notes
Bibliography: p229-243. -Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-243) and index
