![]() War has always been a topic of deep intrigue. In The Culture of War van Creveld argues that there is much more to war than just soldiers killing one another for whatever reason. Presidio Press/Ballantine Books: New York 2008 501 pp. Van Creveld criticized this philosophy as too narrow and state-focused, thus inapplicable to the study of those conflicts involving one or more non-state actors. Clausewitz’s trinitarian model of war (a term of van Creveld’s) distinguishes between the affairs of the population, the army, and the government. In this treatise of military theory, van Creveld developed what he calls the non-trinitarian theory of warfare, which he juxtaposes to the famous work by Clausewitz. ![]() Van Creveld’s 1991 book The Transformation of War was of particular significance. ![]() ![]() A controversial but respected scholar, Martin van Creveld is the author of 17 books on military history and strategy of which Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton (1977), Command in War (1985), The Sword and the Olive (1998) and The Rise and Decline of the State (1999) are among the best known. ![]()
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