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4GW (Fourth Generation Warfare) is the only kind of war America has ever lost. And we have done so three times - in Vietnam, Lebanon, and Somalia. This form of warfare has also defeated the French in Vietnam and Algeria, and the USSR in Afghanistan...As the only Goliath left in the world, we should be worried that the world's Davids have found a sling and stone that work." - Chapter 1, The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century. The War in Iraq. The War on Terror. These types of "asymmetrical" warfare are the conflicts of the 21st century - and show how difficult it is for the world's remaining superpower to battle insurgents and terrorists who will fight unconventionally in the face of superior military power. This change in military conflict may seem sudden.

One of the most influential experts on military history and strategy has now written his magnum opus, an original and provocative account of the past hundred years of global conflict. The Changing Face of War is the book that reveals the path that led to the impasse in Iraq, why powerful standing armies are now helpless against ill-equipped insurgents, and how the security of sovereign nations may be maintained in the future. While paying close attention to the unpredictable human element, Martin van Creveld takes us on a journey from the last century''s clashes of massive armies to today''s short, high-tech, lopsided skirmishes and frustrating quagmires. Here is the world as it was in 1900, controlled by a handful of " great powers, " mostly European, with the memories of eighteenth-century wars still fresh. Armies were still led by officers riding on horses, messages conveyed by hand, drum, and bugle. As the telegraph, telephone, and radio revolutionized communications, big-gun battleships like the British Dreadnought, the tank, and the airplane altered warfare. Van Creveld paints a powerful portrait of World War I, in which armies would be counted in the millions, casualties- such as those in the cataclysmic battle of the Marne- would become staggering, and deadly new weapons, such as poison gas, would be introduced. Ultimately, Germany''s plans to outmaneuver her enemies to victory came to naught as the battle lines ossified and the winners proved to be those who could produce the most weapons and provide the most soldiers. The Changing Face of War then propels us to the even greater global carnage of World War II. Innovations inarmored warfare and airpower, along with technological breakthroughs from radar to the atom bomb, transformed war from simple slaughter to a complex event requiring new expertise- all in the service of savagery, from Pearl Harbor to Dachau to Hiroshima. The further development of nuclear weapons during the Cold War shifts nations from fighting wars to deterring them: The number of active troops shrinks and the influence of the military declines as civilian think tanks set policy and volunteer forces " decouple" the idea of defense from the world of everyday people. War today, van Crevald tells us, is a mix of the ancient and the advanced, as state-of-the-art armies fail to defeat sma

Analyzes who fights wars and why, and examines the inevitability of man''s need to "play" at war.

Esta obra está dirigida a mostrar la incidencia de los conflictos bélicos en la mentalidad colectiva de los súbditos de la Monarquía Hispánica durante el siglo XVIII.

Jacinto M. Arevalo MolinaEn el trágico otoño de 1936, diversos grupos de esquiadores, montañeros y excursionistas, consideraron que debido a sus conocimientos y especial preparación física, donde podian servir mejor a su patria, era en las altas cumbres que limitan Madrid por el noroeste. Para ello, se agruparon en las compañias que con el tiempo darian lugar al denominado Batallon Alpino del Guadarrama, unidad militar que permanecio durante tres inviernos y dos veranos, de forma casi permanente en esas montañas. Su historia, y la de los hombres que formaron ese batallon, permaneceran ya unidos de forma indisoluble a la Sierra de Guadarrama.

Origen y evolución de la artillería y diferentes asentamientos de materiales artilleros en el campo de Gibraltar, que han conformado la historia del Regimiento de Artillería de Costa n.º 5.