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Understanding War (eBook, PDF)

An Essay on the Nuclear Age

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1990. With the exception of Clausewitz, no reflective thinker has seriously engaged with the concept of war - with its persistent changeability and the dominant direction of its changes.
The results of this failure are seen in the extreme logical weakness of most debates, during the last two centuries, on the possibility of eliminating war and, since 1945, on the possibility of eliminating nuclear weapons.
Orderly, clear, and reflective, Understanding War develops two main theses: first, that the horrendous escalation of war's destructiveness in this century is primarily the result of the inherently cumulative character of war itself rather than of the application to war of recent science-based technologies; and second, that the irreversible destructiveness of nuclear weapons suggests how joint action by the superpowers could prevent their being used in any future war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317858447
• Artikelnr.: 40831093

Autorenporträt

W. B. Gallie is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Cambridge. He has taught and written widely in philosophy, politics and the history of ideas - including military ideas - and saw over five years' military service in World War II.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Man as a war-making animal
Chapter 2 The underlying fallacy in the nuclear debate
Chapter 3 Our received idea of war
Chapter 4 War: an inherently cumulative process
Chapter 5 War and power
Chapter 6 The unlearnt lessons of the nuclear age
Chapter 7 War Studies, Peace Studies and Survival Studies