Trevor N Dupuy, Understanding War: History and Theory of Combat (New York: Paragon House, 1987).
“Students of military art and military science have long sought fundamental laws or theories that would explain the interactions of military forces in combat and the outcomes of battles” (xxi). This book attempts to highlight these patterns, as the authors believe that they occur regularly. The focus of the study is military history.
“Although no one can possibly know now what the next war will really be like, there can be no question that the emotional, conceptual and intellectual aspects of combat through the ages are basically the same in war after war…Over the past twenty-five years I have, I believe, identified thirteen unchanging operational features or concepts, which I call “The Timeless Verities of Combat” (1).
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