Use of Force for State Power

Michael Warner serves as an Historian in the U.S. Department of Defense and has written and lectured on intelligence and cyberspace history. John Childress is a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who has served as a ground commander in Iraq and Afghanistan and as an Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

• 1. Introduction: Tools for Sovereignty—Power and Force.- 2. Divide and Conquer: The Progress of Force to 1800.- 3. "The Civilizing Mission": European Dominance to 1914.- 4. The World Crisis: 1914–1953.- 5. A Frozen World, 1953–1990.- 6. A Liberal Order?.- 7. Information Wars.- 8. Conclusion: Force and Trust in the Future.