Understanding War: An Essay on the Nuclear Age

ISBN-13: 9780415056403 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 124 str.

W. B. Gallie; B. Gall *Decd* W.

Opis

With the exception of Clausewitz, no reflective thinker has seriously become engaged with the concept of war - with its persistent changeability and the dominant direction of its changes.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Man as a war-making animal; Chapter 2 The underlying fallacy in the nuclear debate; Chapter 3 Our received idea of war; Chapter 4 War: an inherently cumulative process; Chapter 5 War and power; Chapter 6 The unlearnt lessons of the nuclear age; Chapter 7 War Studies, Peace Studies and Survival Studies

O autorze

W. B. Gallie is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Cambridge. He has taught and written widely in philosophy, politics and the history of ideas – including military ideas – and saw over five years’ military service in World War II.