On Future War

by Martin Van Creveld (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1991

  $3.21

  An examination of the nature of war and its radical transformation in our own time. The author argues that the Clausewitzian assumption that war is rational is outdated, and that strategic, logical planning is unrelated to the current realities of guerrilla armies, terrorists and bandits. He sets out to demonstrate that our most basic ideas of who fights wars, and why, are inadequate - because man has a need to play at war. Van Creveld also wrote Technology and War , Command and War and Supply and War .