War: a beginner’s guide [Book Review]

This book appears as part of Oneworld’s extensive and growing “Beginner’s Guide” series and provides an introduction to the academic study of war via a series of thematic chapters, rather than a definitive treatise on state conflict more generally. With the intended audience being undergraduate security studies students or officer cadets studying war as an academic concept or for the first time, the book successfully provides an interesting an engaging introductory overview of seven key themes relating to war studies.