Book Review: Clausewitz on Small War Christopher Daase and James W. Davis (eds) and Rebooting Clausewitz: On War in the 21st Century Christopher Coker

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R. Gerald Hughes is Reader in Military History and Director of the Centre for Intelligence and International Security Studies at Aberystwyth University. He is the author of The Postwar Legacy of Appeasement: British Foreign Policy Since 1945 (2014); and Britain, Germany and the Cold War: The Search for a European Detente, 1949-1967 (2007). A reviews editor of Intelligence and National Security, Hughes is the author of a number of book chapters and articles (including, most recently, ‘“Fear has large eyes”: The History of Intelligence in the Soviet Union’ in the Journal of Slavic Military Studies; and ‘Between Man and Nature: The Enduring Wisdom of Sir Halford J. Mackinder’ in the Journal of Strategic Studies). He has also edited, or co-edited, a number of scholarly volumes. These include The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Critical Reappraisal (2016); Intelligence and International Security: New Perspectives and Agendas (2011); Intelligence, Crises and Security: Prospects and Retrospects (2008); and Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquiries into the Secret State (2008). R. Gerald Hughes is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.