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The work explains the tangled origins of commercial design and that of designing modern warfare, the rise of various design movements, and how today’s military forces largely hold to a Newtonian stylization built upon mimicry of natural science infused with earlier medieval and religious inspirations. Why does our species conceptualize war as such, and how do military institutions erect barriers that become so powerful that efforts to design further innovation require entirely novel constructs outside the orthodoxy? The book explains design stories from the Israel Defense Force, the US Army, the US Marine Corps, the Canadian Armed Forces, and the Australian Defence Force for the first time, and includes the theory, doctrine, organizational culture, and key actors involved. Ultimately, this book is about how small communities of practice are challenging the foundations of modern defence thinking.  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Reconceptualizing War should be mandatory reading for anyone trying to make sense of the lethal complexity of warfare in today's rapidly-evolving, multi-domain battlespace.\" - Dr. David Kilcullen, author of The Accidental Guerilla War remains the most chaotic and destructive act our species is capable of. In addition to waging war against those we disagree with, we also battle with which beliefs about war are superior to alternatives. We make war with ideas, beliefs, and mindsets along with bullets, bombs, and missiles. The tactics and technologies matter, but only if societies can also realize the limitations of their strategic, organizational, and societal frameworks on defining and engaging in organized violence. Ben Zweibelson presents an entirely disruptive and groundbreaking way to make sense of conflict at a meta-theoretical level. Blending philosophy and sociology, he provides a challenging synthesis of multiple war paradigms, from technological, Westphalian frames of Western industrialized societies to those under Marxist versions, and radical ideological movements and sects. Readers interested in philosophy, political science, security affairs, and foreign policy will find this book highly informative and provocative. In this book, those waging internationally sanctioned warfare clash with proponents of 'wokefare', radical terrorists and doomsday cults battle with totalitarian regimes, and more. Reconceptualizing War attempts what no previous book on war has done, in that each war theory remains grounded in one dominant war paradigm. 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Make room in the ranks for Ben Zweibelson and his haunting, rueful, and often poignant Bad War Stories. Combat infantry veteran Zweibelson has been there and done that, but unlike most, he had the perception to pay attention and the guts to write it down. War is the most human of endeavors, shot through with maddening absurdity. Want to know what war is really like? Here it is.\" -- Daniel P. 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From the Sunni Triangle to Kabul's security forces, it challenges heroic tropes with tales of chaos and despair, bridging personal scars to societal flaws. Philosophically introspective and irreverently honest, this book will appeal to veterans, scholars, and readers seeking unvarnished truths about war's messy residue. This debut memoir, with its rare fusion of visceral experience and intellectual depth, provokes readers to confront war's myths and humanity's narrative coping.For those drawn to bold, cathartic takes on conflict, Bad War Stories offers no glory--only the unfiltered essence of war's chaos and trauma.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53075063374097,"sku":"NGR9781804519424","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53506035253521,"sku":"NIN9781804519424","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781804519424.jpg?v=1769692571"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-ben-zweibelson.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}