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The Art of War in the Modern World
Knopf
January 2007
On Sale: January 16, 2007
448 pages
ISBN: 0307265625
EAN: 9780307265623
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
“War no longer exists,” writes General Sir Rupert Smith,
powerfully reminding us that the clash of mass national
armies—the system of war since Napoleon—will never occur
again. Instead, he argues in this timely book, we must be
prepared to adapt tactics to each conflict, or lose the
ability to protect ourselves and our way of life. General Smith draws on his vast experience as a commander in
the 1991 Gulf War, in Bosnia, Kosovo and Northern Ireland,
to give us a probing analysis of modern war and to call for
radically new military thinking. Why, he asks, do we use
armed force to solve our political problems? And how is it
that our armies can win battles but fail to solve the problems? From Iraq to the Balkans, and from Afghanistan to Chechnya,
Smith charts a stream of armed interventions that have
failed to deliver on promises of resolution. He demonstrates
why today’s conflicts must be understood as intertwined
political and military events. He makes clear why the
current one-size-fits-all model of total war, fought out on
battlefields, that politicians still cling to must be
abandoned in favor of new strategies that take into account
the fact that wars are now fought among civilian
populations. And he offers a compelling new model for how to
fight these battles—and secure our world. Clear, incisive and provocative, The Utility of Force will
fundamentally change the way we understand war.
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