Future Wars

by Trevor N. 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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Military Fiction

256 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 20, 1993

About the author

Trevor Dupuy attended West Point, graduating in the class of 1938. During World War II he commanded a U.S. Army artillery battalion, a Chinese artillery group, and an artillery detachment from the British 36th Infantry Division. He was always proud of the fact that he had more combat time in Burma than any other American, and received decorations for service or valour from the U.S., British, and Chinese governments. After the war Dupuy served in the United States Department of Defense Operations Division[1] from 1945 to 1947, and as military assistant to the Under Secretary of the Army from 1947 to 1948. He was a member of the original Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) staff in Paris under Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Matthew Ridgway from 1950 to 1952.

It is as a military historian and a theorist that Trevor Dupuy would make a lasting mark on the world. He is perhaps best known for his massive book The Encyclopedia Of Military History (co-written, like many of his books, with his father R. Ernest Dupuy). Starting from the beginning of history and going up the present day the book tries to cover all the major (and minor) military conflicts in world history. Usually each entry (arranged chronologically and by region) gives little more than the names of the commanders and (often) very rough estimates for the size of the forces involved in the campaigns. Dupuy was not afraid of expressing an opinion and he classified some of his subjects as Great Captains (such as Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Frederick II of Prussia and Napoleon). Like most Western reference works it spends far more time dealing with wars in Europe and the United States than the rest of the world, but it does at least try to cover the entire world. The Encyclopedia Of Military History has been revised (and updated) several times, most recently in 1993. It can be found in the reference section of most American libraries.