Bøger af Edward N. Luttwak

Why is Israel¿s relatively small and low-budget military also the world¿s most innovative, technologically and logistically? Edward Luttwak and Eitan Shamir look to the IDF¿s unique structure: integrating army, air force, and navy in one service, under an officer class constantly refreshed by short tenures, the IDF is built for agility and change.

In this widely acclaimed work, now revised and expanded, Edward N. Luttwak unveils the peculiar logic of strategy level by level, from grand strategy down to combat tactics. In the tradition of Carl von Clausewitz, Strategy goes beyond paradox to expose the dynamics of reversal at work in the crucible of conflict.

One of America's most thoughtful and provocative strategists exposes the economic and cultural assumptions that have driven the U.S. to the brink of social and financial collapse. Edward Luttwak reveals a forceful new policy that can reverse America's decline.

This illuminating book remains essential to both ancient historians and students of modern strategy.

Articulates positions shared by military figures and political heroes. This work covers America at war and Bolshevism in Russia, ranging in place from the Middle East to Latin America and stops along the way to Byzantium. It examines military reform, great powers grown small, and drugs, crime and corruption as part of common culture of the West.

As the rest of the world worries about what a future might look like under Chinese supremacy, Luttwak worries about China's own future prospects. Applying the logic of strategy for which he is well known, he argues that the world's second largest economy may be headed for a fall unless China's leaders check their military ambitions.