Future Wars

By Trevor Dupuy

In the coming decade the world will almost certainly experience a number of large-scale conventional wars. With the help of a team of experts, Trevor Dupuy, the distinguished and bestselling American military historian, has produced a unique and fascinating analysis of where such wars might happen, how they would be fought, and who will win.

Future Wars is in fact the product of the world’s foremost strategic forecasting group; the team that forecast not only the course and outcome of the recent Kuwait War – before it occurred – but also predicted the astonishingly low allied casualties. For this forecast, they used (as they are using for this book) a computerised combat simulation that permits sophisticated modelling of a variety of possible future situations with a proven accuracy of well over ninety per cent. There is a fascinating general introduction in which Trevor Dupuy not only explains his method of forecasting, but also provides a vivid and authoritative prediction of the nature of future conventional warfare.

Covering wars such as the Sixth Arab-Israeli War, The War for Transylvania and Egypt’s War with Libya and Sudan, Trevor Dupuy analyses the history of prior relations of contestants, the international implications of war, and the likely outcomes.

Trevor N. Dupuy is one of the leading military historians in the world today. He is the author or co-author of over 80 published books and of numerous articles in leading military journals. Colonel Dupuy has written extensively on the Arab-Israeli conflicts, most notably his book Elusive Victory, which is a military history of the Arab-Israeli wars from 1947 to 1974. Colonel Dupuy is perhaps best known as the co-author, with his father, of the classic Encyclopedia of Military History.