Why war is fought – the motivations of the individual soldier.What war is fought for – whether to enhance national power or as an end to itself.How war is fought – issues of strategy and tactics.What is war all about – the relationships between the actors, and between them and the non-combatants.By whom war is fought – whether by states or by non-state actors.Instead, he proposes five key issues of war: Van Creveld criticizes this philosophy as too narrow and state-focused, thus inapplicable to the study of those conflicts involving one or more non-state actors. Ĭlausewitz's trinitarian model of war (a term of van Creveld's) distinguishes between the affairs of the population, the army, and the government. In this treatise of military theory, van Creveld develops what he calls the non-trinitarian theory of warfare, which he juxtaposes to the famous work by Clausewitz, On War. Of particular significance is his 1991 book The Transformation of War (UK: On Future War), which was translated into French, German (New German edition in 2004), Russian, and Spanish. Van Creveld has lectured or taught at numerous civilian and military institutes of higher learning all over the world. Van Creveld is the author of thirty-three books on military history, strategy, and other topics, of which Command in War (1985), Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton (1977, 2nd edition 2004), The Transformation of War (1991), The Sword and the Olive (1998) and The Rise and Decline of the State (1999) are among the best known. Van Creveld has been married twice and has three children. In 2007, he retired from teaching at Hebrew University, and began teaching at Tel Aviv University's Security Studies Program. The Balkan Clue.' After completing his PhD in 1971, van Creveld returned to Israel and began teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Van Creveld's doctoral dissertation on Hitler's strategy in the Balkans during the early years of World War II was published as a book in 1973: 'Hitler's Strategy, 1940–41. His thesis was titled Greece and Yugoslavia in Hitler's strategy, 1940–1941. From 1969 to 1971, he studied history at the London School of Economics and received a PhD. From 1964 to 1969, he studied history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and earned an M.A. In 1950, his family immigrated to Israel, and Creveld grew up in Ramat Gan. His parents, Leon and Margaret, were staunch Zionists who had managed to evade the gestapo during World War II. Van Creveld was born in the Netherlands in the city of Rotterdam to a Jewish family. Martin Levi van Creveld ( Hebrew: מרטין ון קרפלד born 5 March 1946) is an Israeli military historian and theorist.

Greece and Yugoslavia in Hitler's strategy, 1940–1941 (1971)

Martin van creveld fighting power