The Clash of The Trinities

Though taken for granted, there is a meaningful difference between conflict-specific, or era-particular, modes of warfare and the general nature of war.In this monograph, Major Daniel Maurer, author of Crisis, Agency, and Law in U.S. Civil-Military Relations, philosophically reflects on the fundamental nature of war and sets out to reinvigorate its study by emphasizing that no examination of warfare s trend lines and character can be complete without first establishing a common universal reference for what war itself is a question that seems unassuming, but is actually without a consensus among those that study or engage in combat. Only with an updated and thoughtful understanding of war s nature, he argues, will warfare in its many guises and forms be properly placed in a theoretical framework that illuminates deviances from norms or expectations, and which accounts for the phenomenon of war across time, place, and culture.