03332cam a2200397 a 4500 ocm44167609 OCoLC 20241210090408.0 000522r20002000nyu b 001 0 eng 00041499 0312238231 9780312238230 0750923946 9780750923941 AU@ 000021567311 NLGGC 264770811 YDXCP 1737065 AU@ 000076957695 (OCoLC)44167609 (OCoLC)702196689 eng GAFCSC LIBRARY D214 .B56 Black, Jeremy, 1955- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJptXM3FTjCFhkYjm3cVmd War : past, present, and future / Jeremy Black. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000. ix, 310 pages ; 25 cm Originally published: Stroud : Sutton, 2000. Includes bibliographical references and index. The Development of Military Organizations to 1850 -- The Development of Military Organizations 1850-2000 -- The Question of Technology: The Early-Modern Example -- European Overseas Expansion and the Military Revolution 1450-1815 -- Politics, REsources and Conflict: Civil Wars, British and American 1639-1865 -- Struggles in the Western 'Core': Counterfactual Scenarios 1688-1815 -- Technology and Western Dominance 1815-1980 -- Conflict Today -- War in the Future. "This study of war since the fifteenth century reassesses warfare as a whole, showing that many of the themes identified by military historians have been flawed or only partial in their truth. The importance of technology, the pre-eminence of the West and clear-cut predictions about the future of war in the nuclear age are all demonstrated to be wide of the mark. Instead Professor Black proposes a new history of war in the world that owes more to chaos theory than to any neat assumption about the invulnerability of superpowers." "Jeremy Black places war in its social and cultural context, from the evolution of specialised troops in the earliest civilisations to the likely future scenarios for war in the space age. He uses a rich array of concepts and counterfactuals to illustrate the limitations of the old military history and to urge careful consideration of a much broader range of issues from which to approach the question of what war will be like in the future. We are shown that, for all the advances in technology, with pinpoint accuracy of weaponry and space-age communications technology, war in the future will not be so clear-cut as we imagine. Warfare has never been, and can never be such a simple matter." "Anyone interested in the history of human conflict or intrigued by the possible causes and outcomes of war in the future will be gripped by this powerful and provocative book by a leading military historian."--Jacket. 1700-1999 fast Military history, Modern 18th century. has work: War (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFVgmH4mXW9FGdxmpRRc8C https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0714/00041499.html lcc BK D214 B56 0 NO HOLDINGS IN GHUCC - 222 OTHER HOLDINGS 2870 2870 0 0 lcc 0 0 REF GAFC GAFC GEN 2024-12-10 0 D214 .B56 2024-4375 2024-12-10 09:04:31 C.1 2024-12-10 BK