New Art of War: The Origins, Theory, and Future of Conflict

Colonel Geoffrey F. Weiss offers a new survey of war's nature, character, and future, combining philosophical and military concepts to reveal its origins and analyze its foundational ideas. He presents a framework and lexicon that characterize and clarify the relationships between humanity, politics, strategy, and combat, offers a methodology for forecasting future war, and ponders the permanence of war as a human activity.

Format: Hardback
Length: 470 pages
Publication date: 02 September 2021
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Many of the deadly failures of war can be attributed to ignorance resulting from a lack of contemporary, accessible theory to inform warfare, strategy, and policy. To address this issue, Colonel Geoffrey F. Weiss presents an ambitious new survey of war's nature, character, and future in the tradition of Sun Tzu and Clausewitz. He begins by merging philosophical and military concepts to reveal the origins of war and to analyze the foundational ideas of war theory.

Next, Colonel Weiss leverages science, philosophy, and the wisdom of war's master theorists to present a genuinely original framework and lexicon that characterizes and clarifies the relationships between humanity, politics, strategy, and combat; explains how and why war changes form; offers a methodology for forecasting future war; and ponders the permanence of war as a human activity.

The New Art of War is an indispensable guide for understanding human conflict that will revolutionize how we think and communicate about war.

Weight: 824g
Dimension: 162 x 235 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781108837644