Cass Military Studies

<p>This volume brings together some of Professor Azar Gat''s most significant articles on the evolution of strategic doctrines and the transformation of war during the 20th and early 21st centuries.</p><p>It sheds new light on the rise of the German Panzer arm and the doctrine of Blitzkrieg between the two world wars; explores the factors behind the formation of strategic policy and military doctrine in the world war era and during the cold war; and explains why counterinsurgency has become such a problem. The book concludes with the spread of peace in the developed world, challenged as it is by the rise of the authoritarian-capitalist great powers – China and Russia – and by the chilling prospect of unconventional terrorism. This last essay summarizes the author''s latest research and has not previously been published in article form.</p><p>This collection will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, military history, and international relations. </p>