War in an Age of RiskISBN: 978-0-7456-4288-8
Paperback
188 pages
February 2009, Polity
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RUSI Journal
"Christopher Coker is in a class by himself. His nimble, even
dazzling arguments are buttressed by a rich body of quotations,
allusions and references to English, French and German philosophy,
cinema and literature, to the natural sciences and pop-sociology,
and sometimes even to more esoteric specialties."
Survival
"War in an Age of Risk is an imaginative and penetrating
study of the new strategic context by one of Britain's most
creative and thoughtful strategic analysts. It is an outstanding
work."
Philip C. Bobbitt, University of Texas
"Christopher Coker, perhaps the most incisive philosopher of war
of our time, explains how the evolution of Western societies has
influenced how those societies perceive and wage war. It is likely
that historians, with the benefit of hindsight, will consider
War in an Age of Risk an unusually perspicacious and seminal
work."
Dr H. R. McMaster, Colonel, US Army
"Drawing on philosophy and sociology as well as military
history, Christopher Coker presents a clear vision of what war will
be all about in years to come. When historians of the future try to
understand how wars of modern mass armies developed into the
never-ending conflicts of risk societies they will read War in
an Age of Risk. Commanders and policy-makers have the good
fortune to be able to read it today."
Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, Head of the Danish Institute for
Military Studies, University of Texas