The Great Illusion; A Study Of The Relation Of Military Power To National Advantage

What if the greatest victories of nations were won not on battlefields but at the ledger? In The Great Illusion, Norman Angell demolishes the old myths of conquest with lucid moral force and economic clarity. A landmark national advantage study and military power analysis, this book argues that modern war is anachronistic: the economic impact of war, the intertwined fortunes of trade, and the costs to political power dynamics make military conquest self-defeating. Angell blends sharp histor...