Shadow Wars (ePub)
Chasing Conflict in an Era of Peace
(Sprache: Englisch)
Warfare's evolution, especially since 2001, has irrevocably changed the meaning of war. In the twentieth century-humankind's bloodiest-231 million people died in armed conflicts. Battlefield deaths since then have been steadily declining, despite the wars...
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Warfare's evolution, especially since 2001, has irrevocably changed the meaning of war. In the twentieth century-humankind's bloodiest-231 million people died in armed conflicts. Battlefield deaths since then have been steadily declining, despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and by 2012 less than 1 person in a million dies in war every year. This drastic change has led some academics to label our era one of peace, recalling the erroneously named "Hundred Years' Peace" or "Pax Britannica" of the nineteenth century, which nonetheless saw many violent conflicts. But war hasn't gone extinct. It has merely evolved. In Shadow Wars, journalist David Axe tells the story of the new war era-one of insurgents and counterinsurgents, terrorists and their hunters, pirates, mercenaries, smugglers, and slavers wreaking havoc on regions where conditions are brutal, people are poor, governments are weak, and the world rarely pays attention. Axe shows us what war has become in our era of peace. The mainstream media, meanwhile, ignores it. This book profoundly challenges readers' conceptions of war and peace in the twenty-first century.
Autoren-Porträt von David Axe
David Axe is a freelance war correspondent based in Columbia, South Carolina. Since 2005 he has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, East Timor, Somalia, Congo, and Chad, among other conflict zones. His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines and newspapers, including the Washington Times, the Village Voice, Popular Mechanics, Wired, Popular Science, Salon, and the Columbia Journalism Review. Axe has appeared on BBC Radio, C-SPAN, and PBS, and is the author of several books, including the graphic novel War Is Boring: Bored Stiff, Scared to Death in the WorldÆs Worst War Zones with Matt Bors (NAL, 2010) and From A to B: How Logistics Fuels American Power and Prosperity (Potomac Books, 2012).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Axe
- 2013, 256 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: University of Nebraska
- ISBN-10: 1612345719
- ISBN-13: 9781612345710
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2013
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