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by Gwynne Dyer

Author:	Gwynne Dyer
Subcategory:	Politics & Government
Language:	English
Publisher:	Carroll & Graf; 1st Carroll & Graf Ed edition (April 10, 2005)
Pages:	496 pages
Category:	Politics
Rating:	4.1
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War : The Lethal Custom is fact. It is a history of human kind's that does not glorify or berate our violent past, merely presenting facts and their reasoning culled from Dyer's own knowledge and referenced from other great historians, the great John Keegan being an especially prevalent source.

War : The Lethal Custom is fact. This is an important, exceptional book.

War: The Lethal Custom. While modern science ponders whether human beings are programmed toward belligerence and warfare, there is no doubt that war has been humanity's constant companion since the dawn of civilization, and that we have become all too proficient in its conduct.

War: The Lethal Custom (2005). Dyer interviewed on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Podcast. The Mess They Made on YouTube, a clip of Dyer answering questions about the book. The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq (2007). Pakistan: Obama's Vietnam? Gwynne Dyer on "Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats" - video report by Democracy Now! A Response to Gwynne Dyer, "Ethiopia: Population, Famine and Fate, 1 September 2009". In Conversation: We Ain't Seen Nothing Yet: Gwynne Dyer, In Conversation with Robert S. Eshelman, The Brooklyn Rail. Works by Gwynne Dyer at Internet Archive.

Gwynne Dyer has served in the Canadian, British and American navies. in war studies from the University of London, has taught at Sandhurst and served on the Board of Governors of Canada& Royal Military College. Gwynne Dyer has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster, filmmaker, and lecturer on international affairs for more than twenty years but he was originally trained as an historian

War: the lethal custom. Gwynne Dyer has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster, filmmaker, and lecturer on international affairs for more than twenty years but he was originally trained as an historian. Born in Newfoundland in 1943, he earned degrees from Canadian, American, and British universities, finishing with a P. in Military and Middle Eastern History from the University of London.

Implicit in Dyer's argument is the idea that, in war, humans have become increasingly subjugated to the increasingly awesome power of their machines, so that the nuclear stalemate of the Cold War becomes a logical extension of the deadlock of WWI trench warfare. Dyer is an accomplished military historian who bolsters his extensive knowledge with a rhetorical style that is at once invisible and entirely convincing

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Поиск книг BookFi BookSee - Download books for free. 1 Mb. Three Major Plays. Vega Lope de, Edwards Gwynne. GWYNNE DYER has served in the Canadian, British and American navies. Читати огляд повністю. in war studies from the University of London, has taught at Sandhurst and served on the Board of Governors of Canada's Royal Military College. Dyer writes a syndicated column that appears in more than 175 newspapers around the world.

Read WAR, by Gwynne Dyer online on Bookmate – This modern classic by international journalist and military historian Gwynne Dyer is widely acknowledged as one of the most compelling analyses of arm. This modern classic by international journalist and military historian Gwynne Dyer is widely acknowledged as one of the most compelling analyses of armed conflict throughout the ages. Dyer traces the growth of organised warfare from the earliest days of humankind, arguing – with neither despair nor false optimism – that war as an act of mass violence has remained unchanged. The only real change has been technological.

While modern science ponders whether human beings are programmed toward belligerence and warfare, there is no doubt that war has been humanity’s constant companion since the dawn of civilization and that we have become all too proficient in its conduct. In War, noted military historian and award-winning journalist Gwynne Dyer ranges from the tumbling walls of Jericho to the modern advent of total war. He shows how the martial instinct has evolved over the human generations and among our close primate relations. Dyer confronts the reality of war, and the threat of nuclear weapons, but does not despair that war is our eternal legacy. He likes and respects soldiers, even while he knows their job is to kill; he understands the physics and the psychology of battles, but is no war junkie. Dyer surveys the fiery battlefields of human history, never losing sight of the people caught up in war. He actually believes there is hope that war, like slavery, can be abolished. This brilliant book explores the human past to imagine a different future.Abundantly illustrated, with sources from Egyptian pyramid paintings to searing photos from today's news magazines, War is a telling account of mankind’s most destructive tradition.

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Tehn

This is an old book on war from the 1980s when the cold war was looming and the threat of nuclear war seemed real. The book is a fascinating discussion of various macro and micro aspects of war such as how limited professional wars in the pre-19th century era developed into all-annihilating total wars of the 20th century; how armies train their recruits and officer corps;, how nuclear war theory has evolved, etc. Insightful macro trends are very well illustrated with specific examples and with many eye opening facts and figures. I first read this book when I was in college in the 1980s and have since read it about 4 times over the past 30 years. It's that interesting and enlightening.

Grillador

Tom Clancy once observed that a war of agression is armed robbery writ large--"they've got it, we want it, let's go get it." That's a simplistic if accurate observation, but it only describes war in only one incarnation. This book was written during the last few years of the Cold War, when very few "experts" on the issue could be described as objective. Back then, only two camps were being heard from. One was the "gung ho" school of thought that admitted that war might not be very desirable, but when your country got a slap in the face from someone "over yonder", those responsible had to be taught a lesson. That of course is the product of nationalism having been confused with patriotism--the terms are not identical. The other was the pacifist school of thought, which maintained that any enemy can be reasoned with and should be at all costs, and that anyone in uniform is by definition a bloodthirsty human predator. The first is the product of a bottomless naiivete about human nature and ignorance of how societies other than one's own think--the second forgets that it's the criminal, not the soldier, who's a predator in human vesture. Out of curiosity, I viewed the PBS series based on this book. I found myself intrigued by Dyer's observation that the way to make a fighting man out of a young man raised to believe that killing people is wrong is to strongly imply the enemy aren't really people. When you get right down to it, that is borne out by the historical wartime habit of referring to the enemy by demonizing the enemy and referring to him in subhuman terms. Another of Dyer's comments that interested me was the observation that a nation that piles up stockpiles of weapons in preparation for war will sooner or later get that war. Dyer of course isn't the only writer who's been able to look at war in such terms--Herman Wouk postscripted "War and Remembrance" with the comment that either war is finished or we are. The sad irony of our age is that some of us may be able to view war with this level of objectivity, but most of us still haven't outgrown nationalism--a phenomenon which Dyer correctly identifies as the root cause of war.

Samardenob

This book is a must read for anyone. Dyer is not a man with an agenda, he does not attempt to sway one over to this psychologist's thinking, or that historians take or other such nonsense that tends to fill the books of non-historians doing works of this scale and sheer Epic scope. Dyer is one of today's great realists - a mature, smart man who holds no sides but the rational one.

War : The Lethal Custom is fact. It is a history of human kind's that does not glorify or berate our violent past, merely presenting facts and their reasoning culled from Dyer's own knowledge and referenced from other great historians, the great John Keegan being an especially prevalent source.

This is an important, exceptional book. I was extraordinarily happy to see it stocked as a mandatory book in my University's bookshop. I was only saddened that this was a year after I had to purchase my copy on Amazon - even our local bookshops were sold out of this work for long enough to make me purchase it online. These very things alone turn me toward optimism. This is a life changing book.

If you are reading reviews, unsure whether or not to purchase it, then read this; Buy It. It will be one of the most important books you will have ever purchased, no matter your politics or beliefs.

And it is all fact.

Wal

This book has some very interesting topics within its pages. I rented this book for college and could have been more pleased with the speed of shipping and the ease of returning the book back.

Frei

The best book ever written to the purpose of explaining the nature of modern warfare for the general reader.

Hanad

Best analysis of the history and psychology of warfare I have encountered. Sobering given we now have nuclear weapons.

Jark

Dyer at his best.

I was given this book by my son in law and started to read it out of obligation thinking it would be just another super liberal anti war book. BOY WAS I WRONG. This is the most well researched even handed book on the history of war that I have ever seen. It is in fact an anti war book but a reasoned one rather than a simple regurgitation of liberal nonsense. This is a must read for anyone who cares about the world we live in. I wish there were a way to get the CBC to release the video. I would buy it in a minute.

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