Mary Kaldor's Top Book Recommendations
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Mary KaldorThere is a long history of literature on what counts as a just war. (Source)
Cécile FabreI should say that I disagree with many of the claims that Walzer makes in the book (Source)
In The Accidental Guerrilla, Kilcullen provides a remarkably fresh perspective on the War on Terror. Kilcullen takes us "on the ground" to uncover the face of modern... more
Mary HabeckKilcullen writes from both a theoretical and an experiential point of view. (Source)
Mary KaldorCounter-insurgency, according to Kilcullen, is about protecting people and about separating the accidental guerrillas from the real Al-Qaida people. (Source)
Blending historic evidence with interviews from the field, Singer vividly shows that as these technologies... more
Daniel H WilsonIn terms of science fiction becoming real, this book just blows you away. (Source)
Mary KaldorIn 2004 there were 150 robots being used in Iraq. By 2008 there were 12,000. (Source)
Drawing on his vast experience as a commander during the first Gulf War, and in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Northern Ireland, General Rupert Smith gives us a probing analysis of modern war. He demonstrates why today’s conflicts must be understood as intertwined political and military events, and makes clear why the current model of total war has failed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other recent campaigns. Smith offers a compelling contemporary vision for how to secure our world... more
Mike MaclayWhat Smith sees is that making war has increasingly had to encompass the disciplines usually understood in diplomacy. (Source)
Mary KaldorThe era of industrial war, of Clausewitzian war, is over, that war is not fought by soldiers against other soldiers any more. (Source)
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Except for a brief stint in 1812 when he served in the Russian army, Clausewitz spent his whole career, from the age of...
Reid HoffmanReid read Carl von Clausewitz and Sun Tzu as a boy, which informed his strategic thinking. (Source)
Ryan HolidayI know this will offend many strategy purists, but for most audiences I recommend these two books only with a pretty strong disclaimer. While both are clearly full of strategic wisdom, they are hard to separate from their respective eras and brands of warfare. As budding strategists in business and in life, most of us are really looking for advice that can help us with our own problems. The... (Source)
Mary KaldorThis is the sort of Bible of military strategists. (Source)
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