Martin van Creveld (Je Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University

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Produktbeschreibung

A modern, comprehensive, easy to read and understand theory of war for the 21st century - from guerrilla war to nuclear war, war underwater to war in (cyber) space

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 144mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9780198788171
• ISBN-10: 0198788177
• Artikelnr.: 47097354

Autorenporträt

Martin van Creveld was born in the Netherlands but has lived in Israel since 1950. Widely acknowledged as one of the world's best-known experts on military history and strategy, he is perhaps most well-known for his 1991 volume, The Transformation of War, which was the first to predict the demise of conventional war and the rise of terrorism. The author of some thirty other books, which between them have been published in twenty languages, he has acted as a military consultant for several countries, appeared in hundreds of TV and radio shows, and written for, or been interviewed in, hundreds of magazines and papers all over the world.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The Crisis of Military Theory
1: Why War?
2: Economics and War
3: The Challenge of War
4: Building the Forces
5: The Conduct of War
6: On Strategy
7: War at Sea
8: Air- Space- and Cyber War
9: Nuclear War
10: War and Law
11: Asymmetric War
12: Perspectives: Change, Continuity and the Future
Acknowledgements
Index