Are we plunging into a decade of bloody wars? Can they he prevented? In this highly original new book, Alvin and Heidi Toffler, two of the world's leading social thinkers and futurists, train their sights on a subject that has haunted humanity since history began: war and peace. Their premise is that the way we make wealth is the way we make war - that today's revolutionary changes in business are being mirrored in the world's armies and the future of war itself. What is.

Unexpected encounter -- The end of ecstasy -- A clash of civilizations -- The revolutionary premise -- First wave war -- Second wave war -- Airland battle -- The way we make wealth -- Third wave war -- A collision of war-forms -- Niche wars -- Space wars -- Robot wars -- Da Vinci dreams -- War without blood? -- The knowledge warriors -- The future of the spy -- Spin -- Ploughshares into swords -- The genie unleashed -- The zone of illusion -- A world trisected -- About peace-forms -- The next peace-form -- The twenty-first century global system.