War and Strategy in the Modern World: From Blitzkrieg to Unconventional Terror

ISBN-13: 9781138632561 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 186 str.

Azar Gat

Opis

This volume brings together some of Professor Azar Gat's most significant articles on the evolution of strategic doctrines and the transformation of war during the 20^th and early 21^st centuries. The volume begins with the rise of the Panzer arm and the doctrine of Blitzkrieg during the interwar period. It ends with the spread of peace in the developed world, and the threats to it still represented by China, Russia and unconventional terror. This last essay summarizes the author's latest research and has not previously been published. This collection will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, military history, and international relations.

Spis treści

 1.British Influence, the Evolution of the Panzer Arm, and the Rise of Blitzkrieg 2. Technology, National Policy, Ideology and Strategic Doctrine between the World Wars 3. Isolationism, Appeasement, Containment, Limited War: The Democracies’ Strategic Policy from the Modern to the ‘Post-Modern’ Era 4. The ‘Revolution in Military Affairs’ (RMA) Compared with Earlier Military-Technological Revolutions of the 19^th and 20th Centuries 5. Female Participation in War: Bio-Cultural Interactions 6. Is Democracy Genocidal? 7. Why Counterinsurgency Fails? 8. The Return of the Authoritarian-Capitalist Great Powers: Is the Democratic Victory Preordained?  9. A Compass to the Arab Upheaval: What Can 19^th Century Europe Teach? 10. The Modernization Peace and 21^st Century Conflict

O autorze

Azar Gat is Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of eight books, including A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War (2001); War in Human Civilization (2006); Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is still Imperiled (2010); and The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound? (2017). His books have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Turkish, and Hebrew.