Conventional and Unconventional War
eBook - ePub

Conventional and Unconventional War

A History of Conflict in the Modern World

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Conventional and Unconventional War

A History of Conflict in the Modern World

About this book

This volume offers a comprehensive history of warfare since 1648, covering conventional and unconventional operations and demonstrating how most modern wars have been hybrid affairs that involved both. Military historian Thomas R. Mockaitis considers how epic struggles like the American Civil War, World Wars I and II, and the conflicts in the Middle East, among many others, shaped human history. The coverage serves to highlight four themes: the relationship between armed forces and the societies that create them, the impact of technology (not just armaments) on warfare, the role of ideas and attitudes toward violence in determining why and how wars are fought, and the relationship between conventional and unconventional operations. The book also covers the advent and evolution of unconventional warfare, including counterinsurgency, the War on Terror, and current conflicts in the Middle East. It concludes with consideration of the forms armed conflict will take in the future. The book includes valuable excerpts from the writings of military thinkers such as Clausewitz and Sun Tzu, an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources, and supporting maps and diagrams.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781440828331
eBook ISBN
9798216066101

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1 The Military Transformation of Early Modern Europe
  9. Chapter 2 An Era of Limited War
  10. Chapter 3 The Era of Revolutionary Wars: North America
  11. Chapter 4 French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars
  12. Chapter 5 Industrialization and the American Civil War
  13. Chapter 6 Prussian Military Reforms and the Wars of German Unification
  14. Chapter 7 The Long Peace
  15. Chapter 8 World War I
  16. Chapter 9 The Interwar Period
  17. Chapter 10 World War II in Europe
  18. Chapter 11 World War II in Asia
  19. Chapter 12 The Cold War: A New Era of Limited Conflicted?
  20. Chapter 13 Conflict in the Post–Cold War World
  21. Conclusion: The New Security Environment and the Future of Warfare
  22. Notes
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index
  25. About the Author