Review Article Target Practice: Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006; xv + 822 pp; $50.00 hbk; ISBN 13: 9780199262136 Matthew Hughes and William J. Philpott (eds), Modern Military History, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; ix + 289 pp; 19.99 pbk; ISBN 13: 9781403917683 G.C. Peden, Arms, Economics and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007; xiii + 384 pp; 55.00 hbk; ISBN 13: 9780521867481 Hew Strachan (ed.), Big Wars and Small Wars: The British Army and the Lessons of War in the Twentieth Century, London: Routledge, 2006; xi + 186 pp; $150.00 hbk; ISBN 10: 0415361966