The first three editions of A Quick and Dirty Guide to War not only
provided essential tools for understanding wars and hot spots around the
world, they delivered remarkably accurate projections on the outcomes of
each conflict. War-game simulation specialists James F. Dunnigan and
Austin Bay have revised their highly regarded analyses, bringing up to
date not only the many conventional conflicts around the world today but
the new battlegrounds that have emerged since the previous edition was
published more than a decade ago--the Global War on Terror,
counterinsurgency struggles around the world and the latest frontier of
modern combat: cyber war.
This fourth edition takes up where the last edition left off and
analyzes the monumental events that have occurred since 1996--September
11, the toppling of Saddam Hussein and the ongoing wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq--while guiding listeners through dozens of other significant
developments around the globe, including the tinderbox situation with
Iran and oil flow through the Persian Gulf; the final disintegration of
Yugoslavia; the struggle for regional influence between Brazil, Colombia
and Hugo Chvez's Venezuela; Israel's attempts to deal with a fragmented
Palestine Liberation Organization; China and India's growing influence
in Asia and beyond; ongoing chaos and suffering on the Horn of Africa;
Russia's struggle to reassert itself on the world stage; and much more.
Dunnigan and Bay present an enormous amount of information in a series
of concise, insightful briefings coupled with their shrewd projections
of potential outcomes, making A Quick and Dirty Guide to War a
thought-provoking reference on the face of war in the 21st century.
