 He is the author of "" (2005, ), a treatise on modern warfare that explains why the best military forces in the world win their battles but lose the wars.This is due to the paradigm change in military activity, from industrial warfare to the paradigm identified in the book as "war amongst the people"—a situation in which an outcome cannot be resolved directly by military force.The strategies for war amongst the people should be analysed as fighting and winning a linked series of confrontations rather than a series of battles.