The Utility of Force is now the book which redefines the future of warfare.
General Sir Rupert Smith is one of the most senior international practitioners in the use of force. In his forty year career in the British Army he commanded the UK Armoured Division in the 1990-91 Gulf War, was GOC Northern Ireland, commanded the UN forces in Bosnia in 1995, and served as Deputy Commander of NATO. All of this experience informs his book. He retired in 2002.
"One of the most important books on modern warfare in the last
decade. We would be better off if the United States had a few more
generals like him." --The Washington Post Book World "An impressive
and absorbing work of military analysis. . . . Smith is the
Clausewitz of low-intensity conflict and peacekeeping operations. .
. . He brilliantly lays bare the newfound limits of Western
military power." --The New York Times Book Review "It is hard to
overstate the devastating nature of this book as an indictment of
almost everything the West has done in recent years, and is doing
today." --The Sunday Telegraph
"A closely argued, searching textbook on strategy and the efficient
use of military power in the post-Cold War era." --The New York
Times
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