"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."--Provided by publisher.

British influence, the evolution of the Panzer arm, and the rise of Blitzkrieg -- Technology, national policy, ideology and strategic doctrine between the world wars -- Isolationism, appeasement, containment, limited war : the democracies' strategic policy from the modern to the "post-modern" era -- The "revolution in military affairs" (RMA) compared with earlier military-technological revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries -- Female participation in war : bio-cultural interactions -- Is democracy genocidal? -- Why counterinsurgency fails? -- The return of the authoritarian-capitalist great powers : is the democratic victory preordained? -- A compass to the Arab upheaval : what can nineteenth century Europe teach? -- The modernization peace and twenty-first century conflict.