Michael Mann's On Wars

Michael Mann's masterful and monumental new book shows how destructive and delusional attempts to achieve their goals through war have been throughout human history.

< p>Mann looks at the history of war throughout the centuries and around the world - from ancient Rome to Ukraine, from imperial China to the Middle East, from Japan and Europe to Latin and North America.

He explores the reasons why groups going to war, the different forms of war, how the conditions of warfare have changed and how they have remained the same, and the surprising ways in which seemingly powerful countries lose wars. Masterfully combining ideological, economic, political, and military analysis, Mann offers new insight into the multiple consequences of choosing war.

Michael Mann is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge.