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Martin Van Creveld's Books
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Technology and WarIn this impressive work, van Creveld considers man's use of technology over the past 4,000 years and its impact on military organization, weaponary,...Read More
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Transformation of WarAt a time when unprecedented change in international affairs is forcing governments, citizens, and armed forces everywhere to re-assess the question...Read More
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Sign and Sight, October 25, 2011
...it's all about drilling soldiers into slavish obedience. This is also described by the Israeli military historian Martin van Creveld: a WWII Wehrmacht soldier was ten times stronger in terms of fighting abilities than an American. So war has nothing to...
CHUD, October 21, 2011
...director and studio to no avail. Finally, he points out that the film likely pilfered its title from Martin Van Creveld’s book The Land of Blood and Honey: The Rise of Modern Israel, which was published last year (amazon link). It’s true that I...
Yahoo! News, October 5, 2011
...the same title, but without the "in"), which was published in 2010. This book, by Israeli military historian Martin Van Creveld, outlines the history of Israel from "its Zionist beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century through the past sixty,...
Tom Dispatch, May 23, 2011
...in their ruins, A Paradise Built in Hell, or to mention just a few others on my mind, Martin Van Creveld’s history of air war, The Age of Airpower (which I’m in the middle of), Beverly Gologorsky’s heartbreaking stories about Vietnam Vets, their...
Isegoria, October 9, 2011
...cultural cesspool. History has not been kind to Kaiser Wilhelm, unfairly in my view (an assessment in which Martin van Creveld agrees with me). He may have been the brightest chief of state in early 20th century Europe. His chief fault was yielding too...
Uprooted Palestinians, September 10, 2011
...within its womb the seeds of its own demise.In 2003, the theorist and historian "Israeli" military strategist, Martin van Creveld declared the following:" "We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all...
Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist, July 27, 2011
...state, and the state does not want to admit that its own legitimacy has come into question. As Martin van Creveld said to me a decade or more ago, “Everyone can see it except the people in the capital cities.” In larger part, they ignore the reality...
Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist, July 27, 2011
...state, and the state does not want to admit that its own legitimacy has come into question. As Martin van Creveld said to me a decade or more ago, “Everyone can see it except the people in the capital cities.” In larger part, they ignore the reality...
Fabius Maximus, July 9, 2011
...simply represent the military returning to its roots. Young captain of Marines, I will again refer you to Martin van Creveld who wrote that decentralized command and control was: . . . bitterly opposed by headquarters, especially higher headquarters, who...
Eunomia, July 7, 2011
...has led to escalation. The result has usually been a lot more dead civilians. ~ Richard Overy on Martin van Creveld’s The Age of Airpower This is relevant to the current war in Libya for obvious reasons. The Libyan war has dragged on now for 110 days...
Smithsonian Libraries, June 27, 2011
...Air and Space Museum Library has seven new titles to share with you. The Age of Airpower by Martin van Creveld. PublicAffairs, New York, New York, 2011. UG630. V285 2011 Ballooning: A History, 1782-1900 by S.L. Kotar and J.E. Gessler. ...
