{"title":"Edward N. Luttwak","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdward N. Luttwak's works delve deeply into the intricacies of military strategy and political power. His books, such as \u003cem\u003eCoup d'État\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Military Innovation\u003c\/em\u003e, offer incisive analyses on how empires and states navigate complex conflicts and strategic challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in the intersection of history, politics, and warfare will find Luttwak’s exploration of grand strategies, including those of the Byzantine Empire, both thought-provoking and richly detailed. His writings illuminate the enduring principles behind military and political manoeuvres throughout history.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-art-of-military-innovation-by-eitan-shamir-9780674660052","title":"The Art of Military Innovation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA world-leading military strategist and an IDF insider explain the improbable success of the Israeli armed forces.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the Israel Defense Forces was established in May 1948, it was small, poorly equipped, and already at war. Lacking sufficient weaponry or the domestic industrial base to produce it, the newborn military was forced to make do with whatever it could get its hands on. That spirit of improvisation carried the IDF to a decisive victory in the First Arab-Israeli War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToday the same spirit has made the IDF the most powerful military in the Middle East and among the most capable in the world. In \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Military Innovation\u003c\/em\u003e, Edward N. Luttwak and Eitan Shamir trace the roots of this astounding success. What sets the IDF apart, they argue, is its singular organisational structure. From its inception, it has been the world's only one-service military, encompassing air, naval, and land forces in a single institutional body. This unique structure, coupled with a young officer corps, allows for initiative from below. The result is a nimble organisation inclined toward change rather than beholden to tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe IDF has fostered some of the most significant advances in military technology of the past seventy years, from the first wartime use of drones to the famed Iron Dome missile defence system, and now the first laser weapon, Iron Beam. Less-heralded innovations in training, logistics, and human resources have been equally important. 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In addition to these detailed instructions, Edward Luttwak's revised handbook offers an altogether new way of looking at political power—one that considers, for example, the vulnerability to coups of even the most stable democracies in the event of prolonged economic distress.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe world has changed dramatically in the past half century, but not the essence of the coup d'état. It still requires the secret recruitment of military officers who command the loyalty of units well placed to seize important headquarters and key hubs in the capital city. The support of the armed forces as a whole is needed only in the aftermath, to avoid countercoups. Mass support is largely irrelevant, although passive acceptance is essential. To ensure it, violence must be kept to a minimum. The ideal coup is swift and bloodless. Very violent coups rarely succeed, and if they trigger a bloody civil war, they fail utterly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLuttwak identifies conditions that make countries vulnerable to a coup, and he outlines the necessary stages of planning, from recruitment of coconspirators to post-coup promises of progress and stability. But much more broadly, his investigation of coups—updated for the twenty-first century—uncovers important truths about the nature of political power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423983878380,"sku":"9780674737266","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674737266.jpg?v=1774769506"},{"product_id":"strategy-by-edward-n-luttwak-9780674007031","title":"Strategy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If you want peace, prepare for war.\" \"A buildup of offensive weapons can be purely defensive.\" \"The worst road may be the best route to battle.\" \u003ci\u003eStrategy\u003c\/i\u003e is made of such seemingly self-contradictory propositions, Edward Luttwak shows—they exemplify the paradoxical logic that pervades the entire realm of conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this widely acclaimed work, now revised and expanded, Luttwak unveils the peculiar logic of strategy level by level, from grand strategy down to combat tactics. Having participated in its planning, Luttwak examines the role of air power in the 1991 Gulf War, then detects the emergence of \"post-heroic\" war in Kosovo in 1999—an American war in which not a single American soldier was killed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of Carl von Clausewitz, \u003ci\u003eStrategy\u003c\/i\u003e goes beyond paradox to expose the dynamics of reversal at work in the crucible of conflict. As victory is turned into defeat by over-extension, and as war brings peace by exhaustion, ordinary linear logic is overthrown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCiting examples from ancient Rome to our own days, from Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor down to minor combat affrays, from the strategy of peace to the latest operational methods of war, this book by one of the world's foremost authorities reveals the ultimate logic of military failure and success, of war and peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47932465971436,"sku":"9780674007031","price":92.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674007031-strategy.jpg?v=1783863695"},{"product_id":"the-grand-strategy-of-the-byzantine-empire-by-edward-n-luttwak-9780674062078","title":"The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the more familiar western Roman empire, eight hundred years by the shortest definition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis extraordinary endurance is all the more remarkable because the Byzantine empire was favoured neither by geography nor by military preponderance. Yet it was the western empire that dissolved during the fifth century. The Byzantine empire so greatly outlasted its western counterpart because its rulers were able to adapt strategically to diminished circumstances, by devising new ways of coping with successive enemies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt relied less on military strength and more on persuasion—to recruit allies, dissuade threatening neighbours, and manipulate potential enemies into attacking one another instead. Even when the Byzantines fought—which they often did with great skill—they were less inclined to destroy their enemies than to contain them, for they were aware that today's enemies could be tomorrow's allies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in the fifth century when the formidable threat of Attila's Huns was deflected with a minimum of force, Byzantine strategy continued to be refined over the centuries, incidentally leaving for us several fascinating guidebooks to statecraft and war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire\u003c\/em\u003e is a broad, interpretive account of Byzantine strategy, intelligence, and diplomacy over the course of eight centuries that will appeal to scholars, classicists, military history buffs, and professional soldiers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47933307715820,"sku":"9780674062078","price":85.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674062078-the-grand-strategy-of-the-byzantine-empire.jpg?v=1783865686"},{"product_id":"the-art-of-military-innovation-by-edward-n-luttwak-9780674305014","title":"The Art of Military Innovation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRich with rare detail, much of it a result of the authors' access to the IDF's inner sanctums and their intimate knowledge of grand strategy and military history. -\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA world-leading military strategist and an IDF insider explain the improbable success of the Israeli armed forces.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the Israel Defense Forces was established in 1948, the emerging Jewish state lacked sufficient weaponry and the capacity to produce it. 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