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    The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
    The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
    The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
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    The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder

    Written by Sean McFate

    Narrated by Joe Knezevich

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    ""Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu."" -Admiral James Stavridis (retired), former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO

    An Economist Book of the Year 2019

    An urgent, fascinating exploration of warfare—past, present and future—and what we must do if we want to win today from an 82nd Airborne veteran, former private military contractor, and professor of war studies at the National Defense University.

    War is timeless. Some things change—weapons, tactics, technology, leadership, objectives—but our desire to go into battle does not. We are living in the age of Durable Disorder—a period of unrest created by numerous factors: China’s rise, Russia’s resurgence, America’s retreat, global terrorism, international criminal empires, climate change, dwindling natural resources, and bloody civil wars. Sean McFate has been on the front lines of deep state conflicts and has studied and taught the history and practice of war. He’s seen firsthand the horrors of battle and understands the depth and complexity of the current global military situation.

    This devastating turmoil has given rise to difficult questions. What is the future of war? How can we survive? If Americans are drawn into major armed conflict, can we win? McFate calls upon the legends of military study Carl von Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and others, as well as his own experience, and carefully constructs the new rules for the future of military engagement, the ways we can fight and win in an age of entropy: one where corporations, mercenaries, and rogue states have more power and ‘nation states’ have less. With examples from the Roman conquest, World War II, Vietnam, Afghanistan and others, he tackles the differences between conventional and future war, the danger in believing that technology will save us, the genuine leverage of psychological and ‘shadow’ warfare, and much more. McFate’s new rules distill the essence of war today, describing what it is in the real world, not what we believe or wish it to be.

    Some of these principles are ancient, others are new, but all will permanently shape war now and in the future. By following them he argues, we can prevail. But if we do not, terrorists, rogue states, and others who do not fight conventionally will succeed—and rule the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJan 22, 2019
    ISBN9780062866974
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    Sean McFate

    Sean McFate is a professor of strategy at the National Defense University and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank. He served as a paratrooper in the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and then worked for a major private military corporation, where he ran operations similar to those in this book. He is the author of The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order, and holds a BA from Brown University, a MA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He lives with his wife in Washington, DC.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent information. He made it logical and real. I didn’t agree with everything but who am I to question.
    • 4/5
      The author makes a compelling argument about the future of warfare but overstates his case as the wars in Ukraine and Israel show.
    • 1/5
      Too much “spin” to be enjoyable. The author should be an anchor for Fox News.
    • 5/5
      Through provoking treatment of the shifting paradigms needed to be successful in today's world.
    • 4/5
      This is a very well thought out and researched book though I will say I have heard similar concepts before though the bit about the revival of mercenaries was a very interesting subject.
    • 5/5
      Amazing insights, full of revolutionary ideas. If you don’t know the contents of this book, you will be handicapped in assessing any modern political situation.
    • 5/5
      It Should be required for anyone in the armed forces, department of defense and especially politicians so they might make the changes necessary to ensure our survival in future conflicts. Great book.
    • 5/5
      The modern mercenary and this book were awesome reads, he should write more books like this.
    • 4/5
      Interesting insights into what, why and how nations must evolve to win future wars!