The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World (Vintage) - Softcover

Smith, Rupert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307278115 ISBN 13: 9780307278111

Verlag: Random House LCC US, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

From a highly decorated general, a brilliant new way of understanding war and its role in the twenty-first century.Drawing on his vast experience as a commander during the first Gulf War, and in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Northern Ireland, General Rupert Smith gives us a probing analysis of modern war. He demonstrates why today's conflicts must be understood as intertwined political and military events, ...

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Críticas:

"One of the most important books on modern warfare in the last decade. We would be better off if the United States had a few more generals like him." --The Washington Post Book World

"An impressive and absorbing work of military analysis. . . . Smith is the Clausewitz of low-intensity conflict and peacekeeping operations. . . . He brilliantly lays bare the newfound limits of Western military power." --The New York Times Book Review

"It is hard to overstate the devastating nature of this book as an indictment of almost everything the West has done in recent years, and is doing today." --The Sunday Telegraph

"A closely argued, searching textbook on strategy and the efficient use of military power in the post-Cold War era." --The New York Times

Reseña del editor:

A career British military officer offers a thought-provoking analysis of why we use military force to solve political problems, why victory on the battlefield does not solve the problems, and other important issues, while calling for a new approach that adapts the methods of warfare to each individual conflict. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Random House LCC US
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0307278115
• ISBN 13: 9780307278111
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 430