Der Krieg Im 20. Und 21. Jahrhundert

War is a chameleon, as the famous Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz remarked in the nineteenth century. And war can in fact take on different outward forms. Particularly during the last 120 years, the modes and strategies of war have changed several times & from people=s war and total war, through the Cold War, to ?humanitarian= and asymmetric war. All of these forms of war also make statements about the social, political and economic conditions in the states that wage them. Studying war is therefore not merely a specialized discipline in military history, but rather an integral component of a critical view of history. Malte Riemann provides a concise introduction to the various forms of war and the way in which they have developed since the early twentieth century. He vividly discusses types of war, war technologies and military strategies. Beyond the narrow military field, the effects of war on societies and on the politics of the belligerent countries are also described. In...