War From the Ground Up: Twenty-First-Century Combat as Politics

摘要

In War From the Ground Up, Emile Simpson reports on his struggle to reconcile the complex war he found in Afghanistan with what he identifies as the traditional binary conception of war. Simpson, formerly a captain in the British army, attended Oxford, was commissioned into the Royal Gurkha Rifles in 2006, and served three tours in Afghanistan. Though Simpson provides glimpses of his time as a soldier, this book is primarily about Simpson's intellectual exploration of war rather than a story of adventure or an analysis of types of conflict and policy options for meeting them.