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American Nuclear Monopoly
arms control policy
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Britain's Nuclear Forces
Britain’s Nuclear Forces
British Nuclear Deterrent
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Chinese Nuclear Deterrent
Clausewitz's Doctrine
conflict escalation dynamics
Criticizing War Studies
cumulative war process analysis
deterrence theory
disarmament
Drawn Back
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escalation theory
Express Trains
Family Happiness
Force De Frappe
Human Involves
Liberal International Idealists
military strategy
Minor Nuclear Powers
Nuclear Disarmament
Nuclear Forces
Nuclear Peril
Nuclear Problem
Opponent's Capacity
Peace Studies
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Unilateral Nuclear Disarmers
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Product details
- ISBN 9780415056403
- Weight: 136g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 13 Dec 1990
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1990. With the exception of Clausewitz, no reflective thinker has seriously engaged with the concept of war - with its persistent changeability and the dominant direction of its changes. The results of this failure are seen in the extreme logical weakness of most debates, during the last two centuries, on the possibility of eliminating war and, since 1945, on the possibility of eliminating nuclear weapons. Orderly, clear, and reflective, Understanding War develops two main theses: first, that the horrendous escalation of war's destructiveness in this century is primarily the result of the inherently cumulative character of war itself rather than of the application to war of recent science-based technologies; and second, that the irreversible destructiveness of nuclear weapons suggests how joint action by the superpowers could prevent their being used in any future war.
W. B. Gallie is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Cambridge. He has taught and written widely in philosophy, politics and the history of ideas – including military ideas – and saw over five years’ military service in World War II.
