War and Anti-war by Alvin Toffler

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War and Anti-war by Alvin Toffler

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Beginning with an analysis of warfare in the past, this book offers insights into today's military conflicts, and a portrait of the future face of battle. It also shows how changes in the media are blurring the distinction between news and psychological warfare.

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War and Anti-war by Alvin Toffler

This book examines the subject that has haunted mankind since its origins - war. Beginning with an analysis of warfare in the past, it offers insights into today's conflicts - and a portrait of the future face of battle. Its premise is that the forms of war follow forms of economic activity. In pre-industrial agrarian societies, men fought hand-to-hand. With the age of mass production came mass destruction - the savage bombing sorties of World War II and Vietnam, as well as the omnipresent threat of nuclear annihilation. The smart bombs of the Gulf conflict, it warns, are precursors of what war could become as the information age unfolds: a battlefield dominated by intelligent weapons systems, from tiny, antlike robots that crawl into an adversary's headquarters to autonomous arms that, once programmed, decide when, and towards whom, they fire. The authors show how changes in the media business and the global economy are blurring the distinction between news and psychological warfare, and they call for bloodless battle (anti-war) as a new approach to world peace. Other work by the authors includes Future Shock, Third Wave and Powershift.
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ISBN 13 9780751509380
ISBN 10 0751509388
Title War and Anti-war
Author Alvin Toffler
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Year published 1994-08-18
Number of pages 412
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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