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War Made New by Max Boot

A monumental, groundbreaking work, now in paperback, that shows how technological and strategic revolutions have transformed the battlefield

Combining gripping narrative history with wide-ranging analysis, War Made New focuses on four "revolutions" in military affairs and describes how inventions ranging from gunpowder to GPS-guided air strikes have remade the field of battle-and shaped the rise and fall of empires.

War Made New begins with the Gunpowder Revolution and explains warfare's evolution from ritualistic, drawn-out engagements to much deadlier events, precipitating the rise of the modern nation-state. He next explores the triumph of steel and steam during the Industrial Revolution, showing how it powered the spread of European colonial empires. Moving into the twentieth century and the Second Industrial Revolution, Boot examines three critical clashes of World War II to illustrate how new technology such as the tank, radio, and airplane ushered in terrifying new forms of warfare and the rise of centralized, and even totalitarian, world powers. Finally, Boot focuses on the Gulf War, the invasion of Afghanistan, and the Iraq War-arguing that even as cutting-edge technologies have made America the greatest military power in world history, advanced communications systems have allowed decentralized, "irregular" forces to become an increasingly significant threat.

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Max Boot is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations' National Security Studies program. His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals, and he has twice been a Gerald Loeb Prize finalist. Out of Order: Arrogance, Corruption, and Incompetence on the Bench, his previous book, was released by Basic Books in 1998. He lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife and three children.

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ISBN 13 9781592403158
ISBN 10 1592403158
Title War Made New
Author Max Boot
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published 2007-08-16
Number of pages 656
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.