War and Anti-War (Record no. 28322)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0316850241
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780316850247
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 355
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Alvin Toffler
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title War and Anti-War
Remainder of title Survival at the Dawn of the 21st Century
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc U.S.A
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Little Brown & Co
Date of publication, distribution, etc c1993
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 302 Pages
Other physical details Hardcover
Dimensions 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc re 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 needed, they say, is a parallel revolution in the way we make peace. War and Anti-War describes how the U.S. military went from drug-drenched defeat and demoralization in Vietnam to high performance in the Gulf - a story with lessons for many businesses today as they, too, restructure in preparation for the twenty-first century. When America is groping for new strategies, when its defense industries are in crisis, and when peacemakers are being outsmarted and outgunned around the world, this book tells us why we seem bent on violence - and what to do about it. The forms of war, the Tofflers tell us, have changed throughout history: the agrarian age gave us the hoe and the sword, the industrial age gave us mass production and mass destruction. Tomorrow, as information and knowledge become the core of advanced economies, they say, we will see the triumph of "software over steel." Just as the theories of military strategist Carl von Clausewitz foreshadowed the industrialized war of the past two centuries - the bloodiest form of war ever - this book lays the basis for the "knowledge strategies" that will increasingly dominate military thinking from now on. The "smart bombs" used in the Gulf War provided only a pale hint of a not-too-distant world in which chameleon camouflage changes to match any terrain ... in which robots might make key military decisions... in which precision genetic weaponry can be programmed to attack a specific ethnic or racial group ... in which "virtual reality" weapons are
Keyword Politics, Science
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Personal name Heidi Toffler
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Item type Books
Koha issues (borrowed), all copies 5
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date last borrowed Copy number Price effective from Koha item type Public Note
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Military Senior Library Senior Library Warfare & Weapons 2013-12-07 Rare Book 100.00 6 355 133001203 2024-10-25 2022-10-21 1 2013-12-07 Books Warfare & Weapons - Military

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