The use of force : military power and international politics / edited by Roberts J. Art & Kenneth N. Waltz.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2009Edition: 7th edDescription: xi, 539 pISBN:
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Subject(s): Summary: The editors preface states that the book continues "to emphasize the relation between military strategy and foreign policy". The book contains 32 chapters each previously published in journals or other books. Ten are new to this edition while three that appeared in the 6th edition have been dropped. Arranged in three parts: Strategies for the use of force; Case studies in the use of force; Curretn military issues. Contributors include McGeorge Bundy, John Lewis Gaddis,Audrey Kurth Cronin, and David Kilcullen. Specific topics include: Sources of military doctrine; Coercive diplomacy; Biological warfare; counterinsurgency; the end of al-Qaeda.
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First published 1972.

The editors preface states that the book continues "to emphasize the relation between military strategy and foreign policy". The book contains 32 chapters each previously published in journals or other books. Ten are new to this edition while three that appeared in the 6th edition have been dropped. Arranged in three parts: Strategies for the use of force; Case studies in the use of force; Curretn military issues. Contributors include McGeorge Bundy, John Lewis Gaddis,Audrey Kurth Cronin, and David Kilcullen. Specific topics include: Sources of military doctrine; Coercive diplomacy; Biological warfare; counterinsurgency; the end of al-Qaeda.

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