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War and violent conflict

Andreas Herberg-Rothe (Fulda): Clausewitz’s “Wondrous Trinity” as a Coordinate System of War and Violent Conflict. A review of 7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century by Andrew Krepinevich. A panel on The Science of War by Michael O'Hanlon. An interview with Jeff McMahan, author of Killing in War. The first chapter from War Stories: The Causes and Consequences of Public Views of War by Matthew Baum and Tim Groeling. A farewell to victory: Wars once ended with winners and losers — then it got complicated. The global phenomenon of war distorts our ongoing attempts to build peace in conflict after conflict and in many different ways. A review of Buddhist Warfare (and more on monks with guns). A review of Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History by Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll. Is military power becoming obsolete? Joseph Nye investigates. A review of Jungle of Snakes: A Century of Counterinsurgency Warfare from the Philippines to Iraq by James Arnold. Can a colonialist strategy be reinvented?: A review of The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual and David Kilcullen's The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One. A review of The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual: Or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society by Network of Concerned Anthropologists. A review of The Insurgent Archipelago by John Mackinlay. A review of A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War by Daniel Sutherland. The environmental consequences of war: Why militaries almost never clean up the messes they leave behind. A wife looks to the Greeks when her husband is called away to war.