Bibliograph

The future of war, a history, Lawrence Freedman

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The future of war, a history, Lawrence Freedman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-361) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The future of war

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

987349321

Responsibility statement

Lawrence Freedman

Sub title

a history

Summary

In 1912 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a short story about a war fought from underwater submersibles that included the sinking of passenger ships. It was dismissed by the British admirals of the day, not on the basis of technical feasibility, but because sinking civilian ships was not something that any civilised nation would do. The reality of war often contradicts expectations, less because of some fantastic technical or engineering dimension, but more because of some human, political, or moral threshold that we had never imagined would be crossed. As Lawrence Freedman shows, ideas about the causes of war and strategies for its conduct have rich and varied histories which shape predictions about the future. Freedman shows how looking at how the future of war was conceived about in the past (and why this was more often than not wrong) can put into perspective current thinking about future conflicts.--, Provided by Publisher

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