TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gwynne Dyer 
AU  - DYER (Gwynne)
TI  - War: The Lethal Custom
SN  - 0786715383
U1  - 355.02 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Caroll & Graf Publishers
KW  - Military Science
KW  - War and Society
KW  - Military Art and Science
N2  - A revised edition of Dyer’s classic book, widely regarded as one of the most compelling analyses of the history of armed conflict.
“War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is one of the innovations that occurred between nine and eleven thousand years ago when the first civilized societies were coming into being. What has been invented can be changed; war is not in our genes.”
With this provocative statement, Gwynne Dyer launches his brilliant discussion of the history and nature of war. He traces the growth of organized warfare through history, showing conclusively that the basic tenet has remained unchanged — war is an act of mass violence applied against an enemy so that he will do what you want him to do. The only real change has been technological, permitting us to make war on a mass scale
ER  -