Conflict: The Evolution Of Warfare From 1945 To Gaza

Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to Gaza by General David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts is a wide-ranging study of how warfare has changed since the end of the Second World War, and what those changes mean for the conflicts still to come. Drawing on Petraeus’s experience commanding US-led coalitions in Iraq and Afghanistan, alongside Roberts’s work as a historian, it traces major post-1945 wars and the recurring patterns of success, failure and adaptation. The book looks at how leaders and militaries respond, and sometimes fail to respond, to new technologies, doctrines and battlefield realities, from conventional state-on-state wars to insurgencies and guerrilla campaigns. Conflicts discussed include the Arab-Israeli wars, Korea and Vietnam, the Gulf wars, the Balkan wars, Afghanistan under both Soviet and Coalition forces, and wars in Africa and South America. This updated edition includes new material on the Israel and Gaza conflict, and takes the story through to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and what it suggests about the future of war.

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Author: General David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts

Edition note: Fully updated to include new material on the Israel and Gaza conflict