A Quick & Dirty Guide to War: Briefings on Present and Potential Wars (Paperback)

by James F. Dunnigan (Author), Austin Bay (Author)

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Product Description
A completely revised and updated guide to the wars, insurgencies, and hot spots facing the world in the 1990s and beyond includes analyses of the situations in the former Yugoslavia, the Persian Gulf, and China. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author
James F. Dunnigan is the author of many books and over a hundred historical simulations. He has been a lecturer to the State Department, the CIA, and the U.S. Army War College. He lives in New York City. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 639 pages
• Publisher: Quill/William Morrow; Rev Sub edition (August 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688100333
• ISBN-13: 978-0688100339
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,931,235 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dated but Factual, May 11, 2004

By	Avid Reader (Franklin, Tn) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This is more than a book on weapons and wars. It is also one on strategy, politics, ideology and power. It concentrates on the military end but does not neglect all the accompanying subject matter.

Several of the conflicts are still ongoing - in fact almost all of them are: Sri Lanka, India-Pakistan, Burma, the almost endless conflicts in Africa (the Sudan and Zairre lead the pack with total deaths so far), the Mideast conflict. This is pre-breakup of the Soviet Union though that was strongly suggested.

He also discusses future possiblities of outbreaks, many of which are still pertinent today. What is missing is ideology, the driving force behind the greatest mass murders in human history - China, Russia, Germany, Zairre, Sudan, Rwanda...in some ways the problems are unsolvable, dependent upon geography and resource allocation. One only wishes that the book could be updated to the presetn.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the only book on FUTURE history., July 24, 2001

By	Bruce D. Clayton (Mariposa, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a book about future wars. Who will fight, where, over what, how it will probably turn out, and when it might happen, for fifty or more perpetual hots spots around the world. People fighting in the Balkans have been repeating the same war for 1300 years and nobody ever wins. Roughly the same for Iraq and Iran, England and France, France and Germany, Japan and Korea... you name it. Peace is only an interlude while the endless war sleeps for a while. It will break out again, in the same place, over the same issues, with the same results. It is only a matter of time.

I wish they had taught us about this in high school. Every American should read this book and keep it handy.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Modern history indeed., January 24, 2003

By	Russ (CA United States) - See all my reviews

This book when I first read it as a young analyst seemed like fiction, but as the events in especially Africa have unfolded in the last decade, it seems now almost prophetic in its nature. I have read this text again and again, each time I extract something that is relevant today as well as possibilities for our world tomorrow. I also reccomend Race to the Swift, by Simpkin.