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Edges of War

Edges of War

Harrowell, Crispin

Paperback

Series: Fault Lines, Book 2

Weaponry & Vehicles

ISBN13: 9798242197732
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 1 2026
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Wars don't always start with a single, unmistakable blow. Sometimes they start with a weekend of ambiguity and a decision that can't wait for certainty.

In Edges of War, Crispin Harrowell examines how modern conflict is being reshaped by a brutal combination: cheap precision, constant watching, and a faster public clock than verification can match. When small actions are easy to launch and hard to attribute, rivals are pushed into reacting on partial information-while every pause is judged as weakness.

This isn't a book about gadgets. It's about decision environments. Harrowell follows the quiet mechanisms that turn containable incidents into stacked escalations: surveillance saturation that distorts intent, retaliation that normalises itself, and learning loops that spread battlefield habits far beyond the front line. Ukraine sits at the centre of this story-not as spectacle, but as a place where adaptation runs at industrial speed and the costs fall unevenly.

Along the way, Edges of War shows why deterrence can become a performance trap, why automation tempts institutions when time is scarce, and why small error rates become dangerous when applied at scale. The question is not whether leaders want stability. It's whether the systems they govern still leave room to confirm, to pause, and to step back without paying a political penalty.

Clear-eyed and humane, Edges of War offers a grounded way to think about escalation before it feels inevitable-and the guardrails that can keep verification headroom alive when the clock is loud.

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