CONFLICT

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades THE TIMES A hugely important book elegantly written and persuasively argued DAILY TELEGRAPH FULLY UPDATED TO INCLUDE NEW MATERIAL ON THE ISRAEL GAZA CONFLICT Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin s invasion of Ukraine and a penetrating analysis of what we must learn from the past and anticipate in the future in order to navigate an increasingly perilous world In this deep and incisive study General David Petraeus the former CIA director who commanded the US led coalitions in both Iraq and Afghanistan and the prize winning historian Andrew Roberts explore over seventy years of conflict drawing significant lessons and insights from their fresh analysis of the past Petraeus and Roberts show how often critical mistakes have been repeated time and again and explore the challenge for statesmen and generals alike of learning to adapt to various new weapon systems theories and strategies Among the conflicts examined are the Arab Israeli wars the Korean and Vietnam wars the two Gulf wars the Balkan wars in the former Yugoslavia and both the Soviet and Coalition wars in Afghanistan as wel