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Has any war in history gone according to plan? Monarchs, dictators and elected leaders alike have a dismal record on military decision-making, from over-ambitious goals to disregarding intelligence, terrain, or enemy capabilities. This not only wastes the lives of civilians, the enemy and one’s own soldiers, but also fails to achieve geopolitical objectives, and usually lays the seeds for more wars.
Conflict scholar and former soldier Mike Martin takes the reader through the hard logic to fighting a conclusive interstate war that solves geopolitical problems and reduces future conflict. He outlines how to orchestrate military forces, from infantry and information to strategy and tactics.
Martin explains the unavoidable art of using violence to force your enemies to do what you want. It should be read by everyone seeking to understand today’s wars, and those wishing to lead us through future conflicts.
Has any war in history gone according to plan? Monarchs, autocrats
and elected leaders alike have a dismal record on launching and
prosecuting wars. From pursuing over- ambitious goals, to making
decisions without considering intelligence, terrain, morale or the
enemy's capabilities, they have all erred. This not only wastes the
lives of civilians, the enemy and one's own soldiers, but also
means a failure to accomplish your objectives. Conflict scholar and
former soldier Mike Martin takes the reader through the hard,
elegant logic of how to fight an interstate war on land, including
the factors that are often overlooked: the importance of
psychology, training, getting the logistics right, and maintaining
your esprit de corps. He then explains how to orchestrate the
building blocks of military force--from infantry, artillery and air
support, to information and cyber warfare-- in order to prevail
over your adversary. 'How to Fight a War' explains in cool and
precise prose the art of using extreme violence to convince your
enemy that they should submit. It should be read by everyone who
seeks to understand today's conflicts and those to come--and by all
those who wish to lead us through the next decade of wars.
The world of the 2020s is one where instability, war and societal
breakup seem close. But, surely, we have learnt the lessons of the
past? Surely, peace will continue? Are you sure? Do you even know
what causes wars? Mike Martin argues that we don't understand what
causes violence and conflict, let alone how to go about solving
these problems. But there is a way to make sense of war and
society: linking the evolution of our brains with our history of
social development, 'Why We Fight' shows how political dynamics,
violence between individuals and, above all, war between groups are
all caused by deep-seated, unconscious urges to seek status and
belonging. Weaving together evolution, personal experiences of war,
and more than a decade of studying conflicts around the world, 'Why
We Fight' will change the way you think about society, about war,
and about yourself. It is a blueprint for the turbulent 2020s.
'An Intimate War' tells the story of the last thirty-four years of
conflict in Helmand Province, Afghanistan as seen through the eyes
of the Helmandis. In the West, this period is often defined through
different lenses -- the Soviet intervention, the civil war, the
Taliban, and the post-2001 nation-building era. Yet, as experienced
by local inhabitants, the Helmand conflict is a perennial one,
involving the same individuals, families and groups, and driven by
the same arguments over land, water and power. This book -- based
on both military and research experience in Helmand and 150
interviews in Pashto -- offers a very different view of Helmand
from those in the media. It demonstrates how outsiders have most
often misunderstood the ongoing struggle in Helmand and how, in
doing so, they have exacerbated the conflict, perpetuated it and
made it more violent -- precisely the opposite of what was intended
when their interventions were launched. Mike Martin's oral history
of Helmand underscores the absolute imperative of understanding the
highly local, personal, and non-ideological nature of internal
conflict in much of the 'third' world.
Although many aspects of fluid cognition decline with advancing
age, simple observation in the wild suggests that older adults,
generally speaking, do very well in their day-to-day life. The
study of the orchestration of cognitive, social, and motivational
compensatory mechanisms in the service of effective and healthy
aging provides a meaningful challenge to traditional ways of
examining developmental changes in cognitive performance. An
additional impetus comes from recent discoveries in the
neuroscience of aging, all demonstrating substantial amounts of
functional modifiability, compensation, and plasticity of the human
brain, even in very old age. Furthermore, the discovery of string
relationships between engagement in mentally enriching and socially
stimulating activities and cognitive health and longevity has
sparked a new generation of training studies aimed at improving or
sustaining cognitive fitness in old age. This book examines the
role of compensatory mechanisms in such diverse facets of cognitive
processing as perceptual processes, text comprehension, dual-task
processing, and episodic and prospective memory. This ensemble of
studies compellingly shows that older adults' everyday cognitive
life is governed not by the decline in elementary cognitive
processes as measured in the lab, but by a multitude of
compensatory mechanisms, most of which are of the
social/motivational variety. Much of this compensatory behavior can
be elicited with no or only little experimental prodding,
underscoring the self-organizing or self-initiated nature of this
type of behavior, even in advanced old age. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Aging, Neuropsychology
and Cognition.
Although many aspects of fluid cognition decline with advancing
age, simple observation in the wild suggests that older adults,
generally speaking, do very well in their day-to-day life. The
study of the orchestration of cognitive, social, and motivational
compensatory mechanisms in the service of effective and healthy
aging provides a meaningful challenge to traditional ways of
examining developmental changes in cognitive performance. An
additional impetus comes from recent discoveries in the
neuroscience of aging, all demonstrating substantial amounts of
functional modifiability, compensation, and plasticity of the human
brain, even in very old age. Furthermore, the discovery of string
relationships between engagement in mentally enriching and socially
stimulating activities and cognitive health and longevity has
sparked a new generation of training studies aimed at improving or
sustaining cognitive fitness in old age. This book examines the
role of compensatory mechanisms in such diverse facets of cognitive
processing as perceptual processes, text comprehension, dual-task
processing, and episodic and prospective memory. This ensemble of
studies compellingly shows that older adults' everyday cognitive
life is governed not by the decline in elementary cognitive
processes as measured in the lab, but by a multitude of
compensatory mechanisms, most of which are of the
social/motivational variety. Much of this compensatory behavior can
be elicited with no or only little experimental prodding,
underscoring the self-organizing or self-initiated nature of this
type of behavior, even in advanced old age. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Aging, Neuropsychology
and Cognition.
The 5th Edition of Ethics in Engineering is the first text to
systemically discuss the global dimension of engineering ethics and
includes tools for training students on global ethical competency.
It continues the text's strong emphasis on the role of technology
and design in shaping ethical decision-making in engineering.
Ethics in Engineering provides an introduction to the issues in
engineering ethics by placing those issues within a philosophical
framework, and it seeks to exhibit their social importance and
intellectual challenge. The goal is to stimulate reasoning and to
provide the conceptual tools necessary for responsible decision
making. The 5th Edition will offer McGraw Hill Connect (R) for the
first time, with eBook.
More than half of all everyday memory problems concern the delayed
execution of an intended action, e.g. forgetting to give someone a
call. This type of memory task has been labelled prospective memory
and interest in this rather new field of cognitive psychology is
growing. There are at least three reasons why research in
prospective remembering is highly relevant. Firstly, prospective
memory is of great relevance for everyday life. Secondly,
prospective memory is of enormous clinical relevance. Thirdly,
prospective memory research is of tremendous theoretical relevance.
The six research papers in this special issue are paradigmatic
examples of current approaches in this new and relevant field of
cognitive psychology. Specifically, the question of to what extent
is prospective memory similar to and to what extent is it different
from the traditional topic of memory research is discussed. In
addressing this question, concepts of cognitive functioning in
general are being advanced. In addition, the mechanisms of
neuropsychological impairments in prospective remembering as well
as possible strategies of rehabilitation are investigated. Finally,
a third focus is on the life-span development of prospective
remembering. Investigating age-effects and possible underlying
mechanisms, the influence of executive functioning, the specific
nature of memory for intentions, and the role of motivational
aspects are examined. Overall, this special issue convenes experts
from several psychological disciplines in a collaborative effort to
explore why humans so frequently have difficulties actually
executing intentions that have been previously formed.
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