1st Edition
Understanding War An Essay on the Nuclear Age
122 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
