New York: Free Press (1991).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 254 pp. Bibliography. Index. A clean copy with little wear. "The most radical rerinterpretation of armed conflict since Clausewitz. Free Press (1991). ISBN 0029331552 9780029331552 [US]

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ISBN10: 0029331552, ISBN13: 9780029331552, [publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. 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. For 200 years, military theory and strategy have been guided by the Clausewitzian assumption that war is rational--a reflection of national interest and an extension of politics by other means. However, van Creveld argues, the overwhelming pattern of conflict in the post-1945 world no longer yields fully to rational analysis. In fact, strategic planning based on such calculations is, and will continue to be, unrelated to current realities. Small-scale military eruptions around the globe have demonstrated new forms of warfare with a different cast of characters - guerilla armies, terrorists, and bandits--pursuing diverse goals by violent means with the most primitive to the most sophisticated weapons. Although these warriors and their tactics testify to the end of conventional war as we've known it, the public and the military in the developed world continue to contemplate organized violence as conflict between the super powers. At this moment, armed conflicts of the type van Creveld describes are ...
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: The Free Press, Date: 1991. 254 pages, "Most wars since 1945 have been low-intensity conflicts and, according to the author, incomparably more significant than conventional wars in terms of casualties suffered and political results achieved. Citing the dismal record of regular forces vs. irregulars in Vietnam, Lebanon, Afghanistan and elsewhere, he suggests that as small-scale wars proliferate, conventional armed forces will shrink and the burden of protecting society will shift to the booming security business. Van Creveld, who teaches history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, argues that the theories of Karl von Clausewitz, which form the basis for Western strategic thought, are largely irrelevant to nonpolitical wars such as the Islamic jihad and wars for existence such as Israel's Six-Day War. Clean. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1991. The Free Press ISBN 0029331552 9780029331552 [US]

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ISBN10: 0029331552, ISBN13: 9780029331552, [publisher: The Free Press] Hardcover First Edition An excellent, clean and tightly bound copy. The previous owner's name appears in gun-metal black ink on the flyleaf. 243 pages with extensive Bibliography.
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