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War and Anti-War: Survival at the Dawn of the 21st Century
by Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Diane Pub Co (1993-01-01)
ISBN: 0788151770
EAN: 9780788151774
Dewy Decimal #: 320
Hardcover: 302 pages
SKU: 41489
Condition: Collectable Like New
Comments: THE HARDBACK BOOK! LITTLE, BROWN, 1993. THE UNABRIDGED 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT. HARDCOVER W/GILT LETTERING, DUST JACKET AND PAGES ARE FINE, LOOKS NEW! HAS A SHORT INSCRIBED NOTE "To Major General x..... from The Guam Air National Guard". RAPID SHIPPING W/FREE TRACKING, GREAT PACKAGING. Air Mail. BL, RD..
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The premise of this book is that the way we make wealth is the way we make war -- that today's revolutionary changes in business are being mirrored in the world s armies & the future of war itself. Describes how the U.S. military went from defeat & demoralization in Vietnam to high performance in the Gulf -- a story with lessons for many businesses today as they, too, restructure in preparation for the 21st century. When America is groping for new strategies, when its defense industries are in crisis, & when peacemakers are being outsmarted, this book tells us why we seem bent on violence -- & what to do about it.
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Customer Reviews
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what they didn't see coming in 1994
Rating  (4)
Date: 2003-11-10
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
everything in this book is here now, as well as some newer insidious developments. people no longer live private lives, what with a cell phone being able to track you around and all your conversations being heard and recorded, even if the phone is switched off. smart bombs, HAARP and atmospheric manipulation, every home infiltrated with myriad electromagnetic fields that disrupt human biological functions. Soon everyone in the world will have some sort of ID card or implant, that will tell any scanner who you are, and include your banking and credit data, personal data, nationality, and convictions-- all accessed by some sort of infrared device. the infrared devices now in use can tell how much paper money you have in your wallet, purse, or in the house of business, eventhough the scanner is inside of some car passing by your house on the street. No one is hidden anymore, video cameras scan just about any place, street, address, roadway, business, interior, exterior and can tell who goes where and what they do. Computer programs unknowingly downloaded onto your hard drive can realy just about anything about you and your habits that you would have just as sonn kept hidden.
This books gets you into the mindset, if you are so naive to think none of this is real, but only sci fi...NOT!
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Core Reading on Future of Warfighting AND Peacekeeping
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-04-08
2 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
900 copies of this book were handed out at OSS '94 when the Tofflers were our keynote speakers, and it's hard for me to do anything other than praise a book with a chapter on "The Future of the Spy" built around the concept of making better use of open sources of information. With that disclosure, I will offer the observation that this book, which has gotten enormous attention within the U.S. military, is an excellent companion to Brigadier Simpkin's book, and the two, perhaps with General Scale's book, could be used to drive any graduate-level course on structuring a future warfighting and peacekeeping force. Toffler brings us full circle, back to SunTzu: the acme of skill is to defeat the enemy without fighting. I predict that it will be last least ten years before the Department of Defense discovers that "stabilization and reconstruction" are the other side of the defense coin, and that early warning and peaceful preventive measures--as General Al Gray, Commandant of the Marine Corps emphasized in 1988, are the key to victory.
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