This volume brings together some of Professor Azar Gat's most significant articles on the evolution of strategic doctrines and the transformation of war during the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Azar Gat is Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of eight books, including A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War (2001); War in Human Civilization (2006); Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is still Imperiled (2010); and The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound? (2017). His books have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Turkish, and Hebrew.