War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History

The author Max Boot appears to be a journalist who wrote a book on war and as a result got a position on a think-tank. This is his next effort.

I loved this book. I can't really remember what it said (which is the reason for the following review), but I found it fascinating and insightful, although in retrospect not of the highest order of insight. Perhaps it was just me, but I felt that the magic was in the first three fifths of the book.

It was highly readable. Scholarly, well researched, but accessible to the layman and spiced up (but not over-spiced) with colloquialisms.