Reality Fights: The Future Of War
June, 2007
A TALK WITH MILITARY THEORIST MARTIN VAN CREVELDPresident Bush and his military advisors can't say no one warned them the war in Iraq wouldn't be over when Saddam's army surrendered. Martin Van Creveld, an Israeli military theorist whose books are required reading for U.S. Army officers, has long argued that the wars of the future will be waged against "groups we today call terrorists." Van Creveld, who teaches at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and lectures around the world, believes...