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Can War be Eliminated? (Paperback)
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Can War be Eliminated? (Paperback)
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Loot Price R586
Discovery Miles 5 860
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Review: This brilliant work cannot fail to stimulate debate and
advance understanding. It is gloriously replete with arguments from
and about philosophy, biology, sociology and the course of our all
too human history. The reasons for the grim longevity of war have
rarely been more cogently explained or better illustrated by
telling anecdote. Colin Gray, director of the Centre for Strategic
Studies at the University of Reading A wide-ranging meditation on
the embeddedness of war- in our cultures, our minds and our
expectations - and its evolution by one of the subject's most
erudite, informed and reflective scholars. Philip Bobbitt, author
of The Shield of Achilles Christopher Coker's new book is a
masterpiece of erudite concision in which I learned something new
on every page. He is not only Britain's leading philosopher of
warfare, but a prolific historian who puts the competition to
shame. Michael Burleigh, author of Small Wars, Faraway Places:
Global Insurrection and The Making of the Modern World From
pre-modern city-state to post-modern cyberspace, Christopher Coker
reminds us that war is a natural part of our human condition. Both
idealists and realists will benefit from reading this small gem of
a book from an outstanding scholar of the role of war in the
history of ideas. Michael Evans, General Sir Francis Hassett Chair
of Military Studies, Australian Defence College With searingly
elegant prose, Professor Coker brings a vast array of ideas and
events to bear on one of the most pressing issues of this or any
other time. A must-read book. Steven Metz, Director of Research,
U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.
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