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Terry Thiele

Challenging what you think you know

Beoordeeld in de Verenigde Staten 🇺🇸 op 12 februari 2021

Some writers pretend to be scholars and regurgitate the deep thinking of others without adding anything to it. Some scholars take the deep thinking of others and layer on their own thoughts unencumbered by any actual experience. Mike Martin is the rare scholar who has thought deeply about what he has actually experienced. Leavened by impressive scholarship, he presents a compelling analysis of why Homo sapiens behave the way we do. While conflict is his touchstone, the questions he raises about free will are far broader in their implications for our future as a species. If anything, he may understate how truly appalling our proven capacity is to--over and over again--kill others who are outside of our family/tribe/group. It challenges what you think you know for certain about yourself as well as the leaders you trust. The book is well documented, well written, and an easy read.

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Richard Lum

Clear and Deeply Researched Thinking on a Timeless Topic

Beoordeeld in de Verenigde Staten 🇺🇸 op 29 oktober 2020

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Why We Fight offers a compelling argument for some of the deep-seated reasons why humans do violence and war with one another. Martin argues that long evolutionary history has predisposed humans to pursue certain deep needs through a variety of subconscious mechanisms, mediated through socially constructed frameworks such as ideology and religion. While many of us tend to see these frameworks as the cause of conflicts, Martin argues that, while certainly important, these social and intellectual constructs rather provide justification for the deep-seated impulses that are actually driving our behaviors.

Written in a refreshingly clear and easy-to-follow structure, Why We Fight should earn a place on the shelf of analysts and thinkers working on the problems and conflict and security.

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Neil McLachlan

But an excellent and revelatory read

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk 🇬🇧 op 13 juni 2018

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Lucid and impeccably argued analysis of the scientific reasons why the human (male) animal fights other human (male) animals, whether in a bar over a spilled pint or in a war zone. The only reason I haven't given it five stars is that it's so rigorously and dispassionately scientific that I occasionally found myself longing for a bit more colour, a relaxing of the stringently academic tone. But an excellent and revelatory read, notwithstanding. There's an excellent short film of the author discussing the real reasons for the Afghan conflict (in which he soldiered for Britain) on Youtube, by the way.

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Becky Austin

The start of an essential conversation

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk 🇬🇧 op 8 augustus 2018

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I've been waiting for someone to write a book like this. For years I've worked in conflict-affected countries, as a contractor, as a soldier and for government, and for years I've been frustrated by the disconnect between the academic theory and the reality on the ground; the stove piping of fields of study, a lack of willingness to critically examine our assumptions about why people participate in conflict and the lack of robustness of the theories on violent extremism. Mike Martin has brought together academic rigour and his own personal experience in a highly convincing and fascinating book.
There are real policy and operational implications from the findings and I hope that others pick up this thread and attempt to answer the pertinent questions they raise. This should be the start of an essential conversation.

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Grant

A highly recommend read

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk 🇬🇧 op 19 september 2018

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Whether you are an ex service person like me searching for answers to why he signed up for HM Armed Forces or a person trying to make sense of the conflicts and wars that are so prevalent in today's news media this book will stop and make you think. A thoroughly thought provocing read and actually, having read it I now see conflict in a totaly different persective.

A fascinating read cover to cover and, surprisingly a read that at first challenges and then changes my view of conflict.

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Peter

Taking the understanding of conflict to first principles

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk 🇬🇧 op 23 oktober 2018

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This was a fascinating examination of the biological drivers of conflict. The analysis of what drives people in war is so refreshing in that it is entirely lacking in the stale and intellectually lazy approaches found in books seeking to explain motivation in war.

A clear sighted explanation of how thousands of people continue to fight in futile conflict whilst each party justifies their actions via mutually exclusive narratives. Essential reading for professional military education and those interested in a more fundamental analysis.

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ann

Came from Ireland

Beoordeeld in Canada 🇨🇦 op 6 februari 2020

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I was very happy when this book arrived from Ireland. It was not overly late either.

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AM

V interesting book for both interested non-experts and also students/scholars of violence

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk 🇬🇧 op 21 juli 2021

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Arrived promptly and in perfect condition/packaging

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Andrew

Interesting But Flawed Analysis of Combat, War, and Human Nature

Beoordeeld in de Verenigde Staten 🇺🇸 op 5 november 2018

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I read an early review for this book, and it's been an interesting take on why, at the psychological level, we seek conflict. Ultimately though the author bogs himself down by the nihilistic determinism that is the product of his repeatedly professed atheism.

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Oliver Berthoud

Awesome book - best read of last year!

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk 🇬🇧 op 6 maart 2019

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Why do humans fight wars? Through answering this question the book also gives answers to so many of humanity's characteristics - Why nation states? Why Monogamy? Why religion? And, most importantly, why peace? All this in a wholely readable book! Great!

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