Review:
"Many of Black's insights . . . taken together challenge a key component of the military revolutions/RMA paradigm: that Great Power wars are the driving force of modern military history. . . . As Black suggests, however, it may be time to consider new approaches and concepts to military history, if not an entirely new paradigm."
"Many of Black''s insights . . . taken together challenge a key component of the military revolutions/RMA paradigm: that Great Power wars are the driving force of modern military history. . . . As Black suggests, however, it may be time to consider new approaches and concepts to military history, if not an entirely new paradigm."--;i>Journal of World History""" --Jefferson P. Marquis"Journal of World History" (12/01/2006)
"Jeremy Black is a scholar of courage and spirit."--Vernon Bognador"Times Higher Education Supplement" (09/10/2004)
"A detailed and invaluable guide to the variety of military experience since World War II . . . a good deal of very interesting information in this book on the evolution of war-fighting capabilities, from the development of nuclear deterrence at the beginning of the Cold War to the revolutionary changes brought by the increased application of computer networking and the advent of 'smart' munitions that can be targeted with greater precision and lethality. . . . Perhaps the most significant contribution of this slender volume . . . is the attention Mr. Black pays to the many conflicts that have not involved the Great Powers. . . . They provide a fresh context for understanding the nature and causes of war in the 20th and 21st centuries. . . . Mr. Black is a serious scholar in a field that is imperfectly understood outside a small fraternity of specialists. His accessible account of a deadly serious human activity deserves wider attention that it is likely to receive."--Christopher Willox"New York Sun" (04/12/2005)
"Many of Black's insights . . . taken together challenge a key component of the military revolutions/RMA paradigm: that Great Power wars are the driving force of modern military history. . . . As Black suggests, however, it may be time to consider new approaches and concepts to military history, if not an entirely new paradigm."--Jefferson P. Marquis"Journal of World History" (12/01/2006)
"Many of Black's insights. . .taken together challenge a key component of the military revolutions/RMA paradigm: that Great Power wars are the driving force of modern military history. . . . As Black suggests, however, it may be time to consider new approaches and concepts to military history, if not an entirely new paradigm."--Jefferson P. Marquis"Journal of World History" (12/01/2006)"
About the Author:
One of Britain's leading military historians, Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. His many books include Maps and Politics (Reaktion, 1997), Why Wars Happen (Reaktion, 1999) and Britain since the Seventies (Reaktion, 2003).
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