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Since Clausewitz, was has been considered a rational extension of politics by nations seeking to advance their interests. Now, in this sweeping reassessment of the ends and means of war, Martin van Creveld advances a new understanding of what was is today, and for what that it's fought.

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A ghost is stalking the corridors of general staffs and defense departments all over the "developed" world-the fear of military impotence, even irrelevance.

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