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Author |
: Alex Weisiger |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2013-03-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801468179 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801468175 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Logics of War by : Alex Weisiger
Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity fighting continues for years bring about a disproportionate amount of death and suffering. What separates these few unusually long and intense wars from the many conflicts that are far less destructive? In Logics of War, Alex Weisiger tests three explanations for a nation's decision to go to war and continue fighting regardless of the costs. He combines sharp statistical analysis of interstate wars over the past two centuries with nine narrative case studies. He examines both well-known conflicts like World War II and the Persian Gulf War, as well as unfamiliar ones such as the 1864-1870 Paraguayan War (or the War of the Triple Alliance), which proportionally caused more deaths than any other war in modern history. When leaders go to war expecting easy victory, events usually correct their misperceptions quickly and with fairly low casualties, thereby setting the stage for a negotiated agreement. A second explanation involves motives born of domestic politics; as war becomes more intense, however, leaders are increasingly constrained in their ability to continue the fighting. Particularly destructive wars instead arise from mistrust of an opponent's intentions. Countries that launch preventive wars to forestall expected decline tend to have particularly ambitious war aims that they hold to even when fighting goes poorly. Moreover, in some cases, their opponents interpret the preventive attack as evidence of a dispositional commitment to aggression, resulting in the rejection of any form of negotiation and a demand for unconditional surrender. Weisiger's treatment of a topic of central concern to scholars of major wars will also be read with great interest by military historians, political psychologists, and sociologists.
Author |
: Stathis N. Kalyvas |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 20 |
Release |
: 2006-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139456920 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113945692X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Logic of Violence in Civil War by : Stathis N. Kalyvas
By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective emotions, ideologies, and cultures than currently believed. Kalyvas specifies a novel theory of selective violence: it is jointly produced by political actors seeking information and individual civilians trying to avoid the worst but also grabbing what opportunities their predicament affords them. Violence, he finds, is never a simple reflection of the optimal strategy of its users; its profoundly interactive character defeats simple maximization logics while producing surprising outcomes, such as relative nonviolence in the 'frontlines' of civil war.
Author |
: Antulio J. Echevarria II |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 309 |
Release |
: 2021-02-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107091979 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107091977 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis War's Logic by : Antulio J. Echevarria II
Surveys how American strategic theorists have understood the nature and character of war in the twentieth century.
Author |
: Carl von Clausewitz |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 1908 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105025380887 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis On War by : Carl von Clausewitz
Author |
: Edward N. Luttwak |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2002-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674255616 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674255615 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strategy by : Edward N. Luttwak
“If you want peace, prepare for war.” “A buildup of offensive weapons can be purely defensive.” “The worst road may be the best route to battle.” Strategy is made of such seemingly self-contradictory propositions, Edward Luttwak shows—they exemplify the paradoxical logic that pervades the entire realm of conflict.In this widely acclaimed work, now revised and expanded, Luttwak unveils the peculiar logic of strategy level by level, from grand strategy down to combat tactics. Having participated in its planning, Luttwak examines the role of air power in the 1991 Gulf War, then detects the emergence of “post-heroic” war in Kosovo in 1999—an American war in which not a single American soldier was killed.In the tradition of Carl von Clausewitz, Strategy goes beyond paradox to expose the dynamics of reversal at work in the crucible of conflict. As victory is turned into defeat by over-extension, as war brings peace by exhaustion, ordinary linear logic is overthrown. Citing examples from ancient Rome to our own days, from Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor down to minor combat affrays, from the strategy of peace to the latest operational methods of war, this book by one of the world’s foremost authorities reveals the ultimate logic of military failure and success, of war and peace.
Author |
: Therese Feiler |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2019-12-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780567678294 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0567678296 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Logics of War by : Therese Feiler
The modern ethics of war is a field of disparate, competing voices based on often unexplored theological and metaphysical assumptions. Therese Feiler approaches them from the borderline area between systematics, philosophical theology and religious studies. With reference to G. W. F. Hegel's and like-minded thinkers' 'theo–logic' that negotiates Christ's mediation and immanent dialectics, Feiler identifies the logic and problem of mediation as the core concern of political ethics. Feiler unites five representative authors from now disparate strands of contemporary just war ethics, testing whether they offer a meaningful possibility of mediation and subsequent reconciliation: a sovereign realist and a cosmopolitan idealist; a rationalist individualist, an idealist Christian ethicist, and finally, an evangelical theologian. Opening the just war debate for comparative critical engagement, Feiler creates a fascinating study that locates a “dynamic point” at which faithful, free political action can be wrestled from irony, tragedy, and melancholic inertia in the face of totalitarian suffocation.
Author |
: Alex Weisiger |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2013-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801468162 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801468167 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Logics of War by : Alex Weisiger
Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity fighting continues for years bring about a disproportionate amount of death and suffering. What separates these few unusually long and intense wars from the many conflicts that are far less destructive? In Logics of War, Alex Weisiger tests three explanations for a nation's decision to go to war and continue fighting regardless of the costs. He combines sharp statistical analysis of interstate wars over the past two centuries with nine narrative case studies. He examines both well-known conflicts like World War II and the Persian Gulf War, as well as unfamiliar ones such as the 1864–1870 Paraguayan War (or the War of the Triple Alliance), which proportionally caused more deaths than any other war in modern history. When leaders go to war expecting easy victory, events usually correct their misperceptions quickly and with fairly low casualties, thereby setting the stage for a negotiated agreement. A second explanation involves motives born of domestic politics; as war becomes more intense, however, leaders are increasingly constrained in their ability to continue the fighting. Particularly destructive wars instead arise from mistrust of an opponent's intentions. Countries that launch preventive wars to forestall expected decline tend to have particularly ambitious war aims that they hold to even when fighting goes poorly. Moreover, in some cases, their opponents interpret the preventive attack as evidence of a dispositional commitment to aggression, resulting in the rejection of any form of negotiation and a demand for unconditional surrender. Weisiger’s treatment of a topic of central concern to scholars of major wars will also be read with great interest by military historians, political psychologists, and sociologists.
Author |
: Howard Zinn |
Publisher |
: eBookIt.com |
Total Pages |
: 158 |
Release |
: 2012-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781456610852 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1456610856 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vietnam by : Howard Zinn
Zinn's compelling case against the Vietnam War, now with a new introduction. Of the many books that challenged the Vietnam War, Howard Zinn's stands out as one of the best--and most influential. It helped sparked national debate on the war. It includes a powerful speech written by Zinn that President Johnson should have given to lay out the case for ending the war.
Author |
: Christopher Coker |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199396276 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199396272 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Improbable War by : Christopher Coker
The Improbable War explains why conflict between the USA and China cannot be ruled out. In 1914 war between the Great Powers was considered unlikely, yet it happened. We learn only from history, and popular though the First World War analogy is, the lessons we draw from its outbreak are usually mistaken. Among these errors is the tendency to over-estimate human rationality. All major conflicts of the past 300 years have been about the norms and rules of the international system. In China and the US the world confronts two 'exceptional' powers whose values differ markedly, with China bidding to challenge the current order. The 'Thucydidean Trap' - when a conservative status quo power confronts a rising new one - may also play its part in precipitating hostilities. To avoid stumbling into an avoidable war both Beijing and Washington need a coherent strategy, which neither of them has. History also reveals that war evolves continually. The next global conflict is likely to be played out in cyberspace and outer space and like all previous wars it will have devastating consequences. Such a war between the United States and China may seem improbable, but it is all too possible, which is why we need to discuss it now.
Author |
: Edward Luttwak |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674007031 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674007034 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strategy by : Edward Luttwak
In this widely acclaimed work, now revised and expanded, Luttwak unveils the peculiar logic of strategy level by level, from grand strategy down to combat tactics. He explores examples from ancient Rome to present day to reveal the ultimate logic of military failure and success, of war and peace. 5 tables.