Second Edition.
A classic work, updated and expanded with important new material to take account of the world's most recent wars.
Not until the Enlightenment of the 18th century did war come to be regarded as an unmitigated evil; only after the massive slaughter of two world wars did peace become the declatory objective of "civilised" states. This book, already regarded as a classic, is reissued with the author's reflections on the latest failure of peace: the war in Afghanistan.
