{"product_id":"the-future-of-war-a-history","title":"The Future of War: A History","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn award-winning military historian  professor  and political adviser delivers the definitive story of warfare in all its guises and applications  showing what has driven and continues to drive this uniquely human form of political violence.  Questions about the future of war are a regular feature of political debate  strategic analysis  and popular fiction. Where should we look for new dangers? What cunning plans might an aggressor have in mind? What are the best forms of defense? How might peace be preserved or conflict resolved?  From the French rout at Sedan in 1870 to the relentless contemporary insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan  Lawrence Freedman  a world-renowned military thinker  reveals how most claims from the military futurists are wrong. But they remain influential nonetheless.  Freedman shows how those who have imagined future war have often had an idealized notion of it as confined  brief  and decisive  and have regularly taken insufficient account of the possibility of long wars-hence the stubborn persistence of the idea of a knockout blow  whether through a dashing land offensive  nuclear first strike  or cyberattack. He also notes the lack of attention paid to civil wars until the West began to intervene in them during the 1990s  and how the boundaries between peace and war  between the military  the civilian  and the criminal are becoming increasingly blurred.  Freedmans account of a century and a half of warfare and the (often misconceived) thinking that precedes war is a challenge to hawks and doves alike  and puts current strategic thinking into a bracing historical perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946488066101,"sku":"ByrdShop_1610393058","price":28.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781610393058.jpg?v=1769952380","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-future-of-war-a-history","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}