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YS(also)K about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Von_Clausewitz - his book "On War" laid the foundations for the academic study of warfare. Many (many) years later, Herman Kahn wrote "On Thermonuclear War", an amazing book, as a follow-on.
For those interested in this most morbid of subjects, I can recommend:
For an antidote, Joanna Bourke's superb Fear: A Cultural History may also be enjoyed.
The Utility of Force is a great book on the evolution of modern military tactics: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Utility-Force-Art-Modern-World/dp/014102044X
The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World by General Rupert Smith is a fairly interesting work regarding the historical use of military force and the various perspectives upon how and why to use it.
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>a treatise on modern warfare that explains why the best military forces in the world win their battles but lose the wars. This is due to the paradigm change in military activity, from industrial war to the paradigm identified in the book as "war among the people" -- a situation in which an outcome cannot be resolved directly by military force.