Emphasizes battles and leaders more than administration and doctrine. Conclusions and balanced
Serves as an atlas of current affairs that reflects developments in political geography and international relations. This seventh edition includes thematic maps. It is useful for exploring the concept of geopolitics and the crucial relationships between geography and world politics.
"With nuclear stalemate holding the superpowers in check during the Cold War, violence proliferated in the Third World. Sometimes this took the form of colonial liberation wars as the old European empires disintegrated after the Second World War (Algeria 1954-1962 or Kenya 1952-1959); sometimes the violence was between Third World countries such as the Iran-Iraq War, and sometimes it involved t…
Discusses the importance of sixteen famous battles including the Marne, Jutland, Cambrai, the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain, Midway, Stalingrad, El alamein, Normandy, Chongchon, Dien Bien Phu, Tet, and the Yom Kipper War
Professor Kagan reveals the common threads that connect the ancient confrontations between Athens and Sparta and between Rome and Carthage with the two calamitous world wars of our own century