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1. Contemporary Military Theory

   The Dynamics of War

   By Jan Angstrom, Jerker Widén

   Series: Cass Military Studies

   The book aims to provide the reader with a state-of-the-art introduction to classic and modern military theory. The text accounts for the most important theories within the field by developing and analysing these theories, as well as problematising both their normative and explanatory...

   To Be Published March 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Modern War and the Utility of Force

   Challenges, Methods and Strategy

   Edited by Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Jan Angstrom

   Series: Cass Military Studies

   This book investigates the use and utility of military force in modern war. After the Cold War, Western armed forces have increasingly been called upon to intervene in internal conflicts in the former Third World. These forces have been called upon to carry out missions that they traditionally...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. Understanding Victory and Defeat in Contemporary War

   Edited by Jan Angstrom, Isabelle Duyvesteyn

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   Bringing together leading contributors in the field, this new volume analyzes how victory and defeat in modern war can be understood and explained. It does so by confronting two inter-related research problems: the nature of victory and defeat in modern war and the explanations of victory and...

   Published July 6th 2008 by Routledge
4. Rethinking the Nature of War

   By Jan Angstrom, Isabelle Duyvesteyn

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   Have globalization, virulent ethnic differences, and globally operating insurgents fundamentally changed the nature of war in the last decade? Interpretations of war as driven by politics and state rationale, formulated most importantly by the 19th century practitioner Carl von Clausewitz, have...

   Published December 12th 2004 by Routledge