A Quick & Dirty Guide to War: The Tools for Understanding the Global War on Terror, Cyber War, Iraq, the Persian Gulf, China, Afghanistan, the Balkans, East Africa, Colombia, Mex

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 readers 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 Chávez'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. Battle maps

About the Author :
James F. Dunnigan is a military historian and analyst and a designer of war-game simulations. He has been a lecturer to the U.S. State Department, CIA, and U.S. Army War College. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army, a graduate of Columbia University, and the author of several books, including The World War II Bookshelf, How to Make War, and three previous editions of A Quick and Dirty Guide to War. A resident of New York City, Dunnigan offers ongoing analysis of world events at his website, www.strategypage.com. Austin Bay is a military historian and analyst and a designer of war-game simulations. He writes a national security column for Creators Syndicate, his commentaries run on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, and he has appeared as a guest analyst on CNN, C-SPAN, and ABC News Nightline. Retired as a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, he was recalled to active duty and served in Iraq in 2004. Bay lives in Austin, Texas. His website is www.austinbay.net.