cover image Future Wars: The World's Most Dangerous Flashpoints

Future Wars: The World's Most Dangerous Flashpoints

Trevor N. Depuy, Trevor Nevitt Dupuy. Grand Central Publishing, $28 (334pp) ISBN 978-0-446-51670-9

Military analyst and retired U.S. Army colonel Dupuy ( How to Defeat Saddam Hussein ) here offers scenarios of 10 possible near-future conflicts. They range from longstanding regional rivalries (India versus Pakistan) to post-Cold War situations (a Russian civil war) to such relatively remote prospects as a restored Sandinista government invading Honduras. Dupuy's underlying assumption is that war in the next five years will be conventional, mid-intensity and controlled by the governments involved. All of his projected situations end with a negotiated settlement, often under U.N. auspices. Dupuy's computer-assisted mathematical models contribute to generally plausible operational narratives of wars that might become tomorrow's headlines. (Jan.)