Deals with the subject of War Studies. This title covers such topics as: Strategic Theory and the History of War, The Uses and Abuses of Clausewitz (Eric Alterman), Victory Misunderstood - what the Gulf War Tells Us About the Future of Conflict (Stephen Biddle), Early American Ways of War - 1600-1815 (John Shy) and Was the Civil War a Total War.
'This is an interesting and, on occasion, stimulating collection because it does not just contain essays on various aspects of the subject but papers looking at the field itself.'