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Why do people go to war? Is it rooted in human nature or is it a late cultural invention? How does war relate to the other fundamental developments in...
The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism
A groundbreaking study of the foundations of nationalism, exposing its antiquity, strong links with ethnicity and roots in human nature....
From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars
After theorists around 1960 proclaimed the 'death of ideology', ideological divides and clashes have reemerged with renewed intensity throughout the w...
From the Enlightenment to the Cold War
From the ideas of Clausewitz to contemporary doctrines of containment and cold war, this is a definitive history of modern military thought. A one-vol...
But Will War Rebound?
The causes of war - why people fight - is one of the big questions of human existence. Azar Gat's book, ranging from the beginning of prehistory to th...
From Blitzkrieg to Unconventional Terror
This volume brings together some of Professor Azar Gat's most significant articles on the evolution of strategic doctrines and the transformation of w...
The Nineteenth Century
In this scholarly and original study of military thought during the nineteenth century Azar Gat continues and expands the themes he explored in his pr...
Or the Emperor's New Clothes
Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) is, by far, the most celebrated military theorist, whose prestige has reached new heights. However, this book argues...
Revising the Revisionists
In this meticulously researched book, Azar Gat overturns recent historiographical trends in the study of British and German armor developments between...
Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and how it is Still Imperiled
Azar Gat provides a politically and strategically vital understanding of the peculiar strengths and vulnerabilities that liberal democracy brings to t...
From the Enlightenment to Clausewitz
This book sheds new light on the origins and nature of modern military thinking. The ideas of Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)--which remain at the cor...
Fuller, Liddell Hart, Douhet, and Other Modernists
Showing how theories of mechanized war in the air and on land developed throughout the industrial world in the first decades of the 20th century, this...
What Is Strategy All About?
The question of whether there is a general, universal theory for the conduct of war has long preoccupied military thinkers, army personnel and student...