1st Edition
War and Strategy in the Modern World From Blitzkrieg to Unconventional Terror
1.British Influence, the Evolution of the Panzer Arm, and the Rise of Blitzkrieg 2. Technology, National Policy, Ideology and Strategic Doctrine between the World Wars 3. Isolationism, Appeasement, Containment, Limited War: The Democracies’ Strategic Policy from the Modern to the ‘Post-Modern’ Era 4. The ‘Revolution in Military Affairs’ (RMA) Compared with Earlier Military-Technological Revolutions of the 19th and 20th Centuries 5. Female Participation in War: Bio-Cultural Interactions 6. Is Democracy Genocidal? 7. Why Counterinsurgency Fails? 8. The Return of the Authoritarian-Capitalist Great Powers: Is the Democratic Victory Preordained? 9. A Compass to the Arab Upheaval: What Can 19th Century Europe Teach? 10. The Modernization Peace and 21st Century Conflict
Biography
Azar Gat is Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of eight books, including A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War (2001); War in Human Civilization (2006); Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is still Imperiled (2010); and The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound? (2017). His books have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Turkish, and Hebrew.
