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The Oxford Handbook of War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first century. With over forty senior authors from academia, government and the armed forces world-wide the Handbook explores the history, theory, ethics and practice of war. The Handbook first considers the fundamental causes of war, before reflecting on the moral and legal aspects of war. Theories on the practice of war lead into an analysis of the
strategic conduct of war and non Western ways of war. The heart of the Handbook is a compelling analysis of the military conduct of war which is juxtaposed with consideration of technology, economy, industry, and war. In conclusion the volume looks to the future of this apparently perennial feature of human interaction.
List of contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I: The Fundamental Causes of War
- 1: Sir Lawrence Freedman: Defining War
- 2: Hew Strachan: Strategy and War
- 3: George-Henri Soutou: How History Shapes War
- 4: Christopher Coker: The Collision of Modern and Post-Modern War
- 5: Yves Boyer: Alliances and War
- 6: Alfredo Valladao: Brazil, India, and China: Emerging Powers and Warfare
- Part II: The Moral and Legal Aspects of War
- 7: Paul Schulte: Morality and War
- 8: Serge Sur: The Evolving Legal Aspects of War
- Part III: Theories on the Practice of War
- 9: Colonel Benoit Durieux: The History of Grand Strategy and the Conduct of Micro-Wars
- 10: Ambassador Alyson Bailes: The Strategic Object of War
- 11: Olivier Debouzy: Nuclear Deterrence and War
- 12: Christian Malis: Unconventional Forms of War
- 13: Ambassador Robert E. Hunter: Terrorism and War
- Part IV: The Strategic Conduct of War
- 14: Julian Lindley-French: Strategic Leadership and War
- 15: Sir Paul Lever: Intelligence and War
- 16: Général d'Armées, Jean-Louis Georgelin: The Pol/Mil Interface and War: The French at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
- 17: William Hopkinson: Managing War
- Part V: Non-Western Ways of War
- 18: Isabelle Facon: The Russian Way of War: In Crisis?
- 19: General Peng Guang Qian: The Twenty-First Century War: Chinese Perspectives
- 20: Vice-Admiral Fumio Ota: The Japanese Way of War
- Part VI: The Military Conduct of War
- 21: Lt Gen Andrew Graham: Military Coalitions in War
- 22: General Peter van Uhm and Ben Schoenmaker: Military Leadership in a Changing World
- 23: General Sir David Richards: The Art of Command in the Twenty-First Century: Reflections on Three Commands
- 24: Rob de Wijk: Hybrid Conflict and the Changing Nature of Actors
- 25: Lt General Sir Richard Shirreff: Conducting Joint Operations
- 26: Colonel Gian P. Gentile: Counterinsurgency and War
- 27: Matthew Uttley and Christopher Kinsey: The Role of Logistics in War
- 28: Général de Corps d'Armée Antoine Lecerf: Land Warfare
- 29: Admiral Lord West: Maritime Warfare and the Importance of Sea Control
- 30: Air Commodore Frans Osinga: Air Warfare
- 31: Colonel Ton de Munnik: Teaching War
- Part VII: Technology, Economy, Industry and War
- 32: Colonel Michel Goya: The Limits of Technology in War
- 33: Xavier Pasco: Space: A New Theatre of War?
- 34: Chris Donnelly, Commander Simon Atkinson, and Julian Lindley-French: Affording War: The British Case
- 35: Heinz Schulte: Industry and War
- 36: Nick Witney: Procurement and War
- 37: Ambassador Robert G. Bell: The Defense Industry in the Contemporary Global Security Environment
- Part VIII: Civil-Military Co-operation and War
- 38: Paul Cornish: The Changing Relationship Between Society and Armed Forces
- 39: Julian Lindley-French, Paul Cornish, and Andrew Rathmell: Clear, Hold, and Build: Operationalising the Comprehensive Approach
- 40: Hans Binnendijk and Jacqueline Carpenter: Building a Multilateral Civilian Surge
- 41: Radha Kumar: Demography and Warfare
- 42: Jamie Shea: Communicating War: The Gamekeeper's Perspective
- 43: Caroline Wyatt: Communicating War: The Poacher
- 44: Michael Clarke: Does War have a Future?
- Conclusion: The Fatal Fatalism of War?
About the author
Julian Lindley-French is a member of the Atlantic Council of the United States as well as Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) and Senior Associate Fellow of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. He is Head of the Commander's Initiative Group (CIG) for NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) in which he is leading efforts to operationalise the Comprehensive Approach, as well as a member of the Strategic Advisory Group in Washington. He was formerly a Course Director at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and European Co-Chair of the US-European Working Group on Stabilisation and Reconstruction Missions for CSIS and Project Leader for the Atlantic Council's Stratcon 2010 project on the NATO Strategic Concept. He is Eisenhower Professor of Defence Strategy at the Netherlands Defence Academy, and Special Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of Leiden.
Dr Yves Boyer is Professor at Ecole polytechnique, the most prestigious French Grande Ecole, teaching "Geopolitics and Strategy". The Deputy Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS) in Paris, he is a former senior researcher at the French Institute for International Affairs (IFRI), at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS-London) and a Woodrow Wilson Scholar (Washington D.C.). He is also the vice-president of the board of the Comité d'Etude de Défense Nationale (Paris), a member of the editorial boards of the Annuaire Français de Relations Internationales, the Revue de Géoéconomie (Paris) and Questions Internationales (Paris).
Summary
Covering all aspects of war in the modern era The Oxford Handbook of War will be the definitive study in this area for years to come.
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The incidence of war and its casualties have dramatically declined in the last thirty years. That, however, is not the perception of a public used to the dramas of 24/7 media coverage of what is still happening on the world's battlefields. Never has it been more timely for a volume like this to appear and to enlighten the global population to the changed and increasingly complex nature of modern warfare.
Report
This Handbook is not just timely but an outstanding contribution to the understanding of war at the start of the twenty-first century. As such the Handbook considers war in the broadest sense at the end of one epoch and the beginning of another. Bruno Racine, President of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and President of the Board of Directors of the Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique in Paris
