Tämä sivusto käyttää evästeitä palvelujen toimittamiseen, toiminnan parantamiseen, analytiikkaan ja (jos et ole kirjautunut sisään) mainostamiseen. Käyttämällä LibraryThingiä ilmaiset, että olet lukenut ja ymmärtänyt käyttöehdot ja yksityisyydensuojakäytännöt. Sivujen ja palveluiden käytön tulee olla näiden ehtojen ja käytäntöjen mukaista.
This book explores the causes, operations, endings, and justifications of war. In the process, it demolishes many currently fashionable illusions, such as that peace is always preferable to war, that wars occur because of accidents or misunderstandings, and that technology changes the nature of war. Abundant historical and contemporary examples show, the authors contend, that all wars are deliberate political choices, that military operations follow timeless principles, and that, as Aristotle taught, the natural aim of war is victory. This new edition of the book that Eugene Rostow called ?a gem,? Michael Howard called ?shrewd and trenchant,? and Library Journal called ?persuasive? devotes substantial attention to the wars of the post?Cold War period, including ?the war on terrorism.'… (lisätietoja)
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
(Preface to the paperback edition): Had we written War: Ends and Means after the annus mirabilis 1989, we surely would have included illustrations from its key events: the collapse of the East European Communist regimes once the massive Soviet military power in the region ceased to support them, the Chinese army stepping out from behind the façade of the Chinese Communist party to crush physically the Democracy movement in Tienammen Square, and the U. S. government pasing up the chance in October to overthrow Panama's dictator, Manuel Noriega, with a company, only to do it with two divisions in December.
(Introduction): Arma virumque cano -- "Of arms and the man I sing."
Peoples define themselves by the kinds of peace they live and the kinds of wars they fight.
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Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
But for us to see war as anything but the other side of the coin that tranquility is to misunderstand it, to suffer it, and ultimately to lose it.
This book explores the causes, operations, endings, and justifications of war. In the process, it demolishes many currently fashionable illusions, such as that peace is always preferable to war, that wars occur because of accidents or misunderstandings, and that technology changes the nature of war. Abundant historical and contemporary examples show, the authors contend, that all wars are deliberate political choices, that military operations follow timeless principles, and that, as Aristotle taught, the natural aim of war is victory. This new edition of the book that Eugene Rostow called ?a gem,? Michael Howard called ?shrewd and trenchant,? and Library Journal called ?persuasive? devotes substantial attention to the wars of the post?Cold War period, including ?the war on terrorism.'
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