The Impenetrable Fog of War: Reflections on Modern Warfare and Strategic Surprise

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Current trends suggest that the fog of war continues to make strategy an opaque enterprise notwithstanding enormous U.S. investments in high-tech weapons, intelligence capabilities, and homeland defense. This edited volume includes essays originally presented at the IISS Global Strategic Review, which was held in Geneva on September 7-9, 2007.

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Cronin (director, International Institute for Strategic Studies) has collected 13 fine essaysEach article is well written and researched. This collection deserves a spot in university and professional librariesRecommended. * Choice *

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Patrick M. Cronin is Director of Studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and previously directed research at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has published widely on American foreign and defense policy, Asian-Pacific security affairs, and conflict prevention including Double Trouble: Iran and North Korea as Challenges to International Security (Praeger Security International, 2007).