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Carnage and connectivity : landmarks in the decline of conventional military power / David Betz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Betz, David, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military doctrine.
- Strategy.
- War (Philosophy).
- War and society.
- Military art and science--Philosophy.
- Military art and science.
- Denial of service attacks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work examines the disorienting impact on war of the burgeoning connectivity of ideas, people, and things. It argues that the Western perception of warfare has shifted from one of occasional and distant occurrences of well-defined conflicts to a stream of more connected and ill-defined wars and disasters.
- Contents:
- Antinomies of war
- The context of contemporary war
- War without chance : something better than war
- Overestimate yourself, underestimate your enemy, never know victory
- War without passion : something other than war
- Theatre of war
- Strategic narrative and strategic incoherence
- War without reason : something just short of war
- The new age of anxiety.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-251) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-061319-X
- 0-19-061851-5
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