{"product_id":"how-to-fight-a-war-9781787389304","title":"How to Fight a War","description":"Has any war in history gone according to plan? Monarchs, dictators and elected leaders alike have a dismal record on military decision-making, from over-ambitious goals to disregarding intelligence, terrain, or enemy capabilities. This not only wastes the lives of civilians, the enemy and one's own soldiers, but also fails to achieve geopolitical objectives, and usually lays the seeds for more wars down the line. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConflict scholar and former soldier Mike Martin takes the reader through the hard, elegant logic to fighting a conclusive interstate war that solves geopolitical problems, and reduces future conflict. In cool and precise prose, he outlines how to orchestrate military forces, from infantry to information, and from strategy to tactics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMike Martin is Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, where he speaks and writes on conflict. His previous books are \u003cem\u003e An Intimate War\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003e Crossing the Congo\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003e Why We Fight. \u003c\/em\u003e He tweets about conflict and geopolitics as @ThreshedThought.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hurst \u0026 Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50651810398482,"sku":"9781787389304","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a042ed90-450c-45ff-9333-b6fbbbc27964.jpg?v=1733309974","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-to-fight-a-war-9781787389304","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}