General David Petraeus is a retired United States Army general and
widely respected as a leading warrior intellectual. He is currently
a Partner in a major investment firm and chairs that firm's Global
Institute. He previously served for 37 years in the US Army,
culminating his time in uniform with 6 consecutive commands as a
general officer. Following a Senate confirmation by a vote of 94-0,
he served as Director of the CIA.
Andrew Roberts took a first in modern history from Gonville & Caius
College, Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Institute of Napoleonic
Studies and has lectured on Napoleon in America, Canada and
Britain. Along with Colonel John Hughes-Wilson of the Corps of
Battlefield Guides, he conducts annual tours to Waterloo under the
auspices of Tours with Experts.
‘How has warfare evolved in the eight decades since 1945? And what
might it look like in the future? These are the questions posed by
the authorial dream team of David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts:
respectively a distinguished former US general and spy chief, and
one of Britain’s finest military historians. This brilliant history
shows how the wars of the future may go. Elegantly written and
persuasively argued, Conflict is a hugely important book that
explains why wars are still being fought and lost, what we can
learn from them, and how we can protect ourselves from malign
actors in the future’
DAILY TELEGRAPH, FIVE-STAR REVIEW ‘Timely, engaging and
instructive, Conflict is the best one-volume study of conventional
warfare in the nuclear age. It sets a new benchmark in
understanding modern war’
WALL STREET JOURNAL ‘The pairing of Roberts with Petraeus is an
engaging choice… conclusions are not offered as a means of
political score-settling. What gives these observations new
resonance is that they’re placed into the broader context of
warfare’s evolution and future. They spend little time imagining a
world without war, or even a world with less war. Their book – like
Clausewitz’s canonical text – is a primer for today’s strategists,
brimming with lessons about leadership, counter-insurgency, and
intelligence. It’s a guide to effectively prepare for and win wars
of the future, to achieve perpetual peace through perpetual
strength’
NEW STATESMAN ‘Stimulating … In David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts
we have two expert guides to the subject … This is an absorbing
book, replete with anecdotes, vivid images and often unexpected
facts and quotations’
Brendan Simms, Literary Review
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