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The Utility of Force. The Art of War in the Modern World.(Book review)
The Utility of Force. The Art of War in the Modern World. By General Rupert Smith. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007, 431 pages, $30.
Frances Fukuyam announced the end of history and General Rupert Smith the end of war, but both proclamations need to be expanded and clarified. What the general states is that industrial age war, with large conventional armies, is obsolete, and that it is now failing to meet its political objectives. The new paradigm is war amongst people, rather than between states. This creates a dissonance between the organization and training of existing forces and the demands of this new unstructured, amorphous, conflict. Despite the fact it is …
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Magazine article from: Military Review
Latham, Bill
July 1, 2007
700+ words
...THE UTILITY OF FORCE: The Art of War in the Modern World, General Rupert Smith, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2007, 430 pages, $45.00. If British General Rupert Smith is right, the United States and its allies...
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- The case of the lurking paradigm.(The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the...
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Magazine article from: Spectator
McIntyre, Ian
September 24, 2005
700+ words
THE UTILITY OF FORCE: THE ART OF WAR IN THE MODERN WORLD by Rupert Smith Allen Lane, 20 [pounds sterling], pp. 428...keeping and humanitarian intervention, General Sir Rupert Smith's has not been exactly uneventful. As a ...
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- A warhorse of a different color.(The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the...
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Magazine article from: The Wilson Quarterly
Bacevich, Andrew J.
March 22, 2007
700+ words
THE UTILITY OF FORCE: The Art of War in the Modern World. By Rupert Smith. Knopf. 448 pp. $30 NEARLY TWO DECADES AGO...the end of history." Now British general Sir Rupert Smith has set himself a similar task: to define the...
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- Not the days of Clausewitz.(The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern...
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Magazine article from: Naval War College Review
Bolia, Robert
March 22, 2006
700+ words
...The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World. London: Penguin, 2005. 428pp. 25 [pounds...The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World, by General Sir Rupert Smith. Smith certainly has the appropriate ...
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News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire
March 24, 2007
700+ words
...Independent) THE UTILITY OF FORCE - THE ART OF WAR IN THE MODERN WORLD By Rupert Smith Penguin, stGBP17JOHN BRUTONSince the atomic bomb...limits and the possibilities of military force in the modern world is a vital ...
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- The Utility of Force.(Brief article)(Book review)
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Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch
May 1, 2007
700+ words
...Utility of Force General Rupert Smith Alfred A. Knopf c/o...states author/general Rupert Smith, who spent some forty...THE ART OF WAR IN THE MODERN WORLD holds much hope for the modern world ...
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- Focus and convergence.(INSIDE: WORLD TRADE)
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Magazine article from: World Trade
Shister, Neil
May 1, 2007
700+ words
...proposition: "war no longer exists"! That's how General Rupert Smith, considered one of Britain's most distinguished soldiers...seminal new book The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World. Now retired, Smith commanded the British armored ...
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