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| #379446 in Books | Rupert Smith | 2008-02-12 | 2008-02-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.90 x5.20l,.83 | File Name: 0307278115 | 448 pages | The Utility of Force The Art of War in the Modern World
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Good perspective, creative way of thinking, minor mistakes about Clausewitz's theory|By Fernando Belmonte Archetti|Mr. Rupert Smith's book's an easy read, very coherently organised and provides a general picture of the state of military affairs today, making a sound use of Kuhn's paradigm concepts, in quite an interesting fashion. He describes the interstate industrial paradig|From Booklist|In his opening remarks, Smith provocatively states, "war no longer exists." Of course, he does not mean that mass organized violence has ended; rather, he refers to the end of large-scale industrial
From a highly decorated general, a brilliant new way of understanding war and its role in the twenty-first century.
Drawing on his vast experience as a commander during the first Gulf War, and in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Northern Ireland, General Rupert Smith gives us a probing analysis of modern war. He demonstrates why today’s conflicts must be understood as intertwined political and military events, and makes clear why the current model of total war has fai...
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