The Future of War: A History by Freedman, Lawrence
The Future of War: A History by Freedman, Lawrence

The Future of War: A History

An award-winning military historian, professor, and political adviser delivers the definitive story of warfare in all its...
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Author: Lawrence Freedman
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The Future of War: A History by Freedman, Lawrence

The Future of War: A History

$66.18
The Future of War: A History by Freedman, Lawrence

The Future of War: A History

$66.18
Author: Lawrence Freedman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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An award-winning military historian, professor, and political adviser delivers the definitive story of warfare in all its guises and applications, showing what has driven and continues to drive this uniquely human form of political violence.
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.



Author: Lawrence Freedman
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 10/01/2017
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781610393058


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2017 pg. 138
Library Journal 09/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 01/01/2018
Choice 06/01/2018

About the Author
Lawrence Freedman is emeritus professor of War Studies at King's College London. Elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and awarded the CBE in 1996, he was appointed official historian of the Falklands Campaign in 1997. He was awarded the KCMG in 2003. In June 2009, he was appointed to serve as a member of the official inquiry into Britain and the 2003 Iraq War.

Professor Freedman has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the Cold War, as well as commentating regularly on contemporary security issues. His book, Strategy, was a best book of 2013 in the Financial Times, A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East won the 2009 Lionel Gelber Prize and Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature.
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