I have just started reading
The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History
Has anyone else read this? If so, could you give us a review?
In the Prolog, the author starts out by saying,
We are at a moment in world affairs when the essential ideas that
govern statecraft must change. For five centuries it has taken
the resources of a state to destroy another state: only states
could muster the huge revenues, conscript the vast armies, and
equip the divisions required to threaten the survival of other
states. Indeed posting such threats, and meeting them, created
the modern state. In such a world, every state knew that its
enemy would be drawn from a small class of potential adversaries.
This is no longer true, owing to advances in international
telecommunications, rapid computation, and weapons of mass
destruction. The change in statecraft that will accompany these
developments will be as profound as any that the State has thus
far undergone.
What do you think? Is the author right?
The Shield of Achilles
by Philip Bobbit
Random House, Knopf edition, 2002: ISBN 0-375-41292-1
Random House, Anchor Books edition, 2003: ISBN 0-385-72138-2
US$20
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