This volume covers a timely debate in contemporary security
studies: can armed forces adjust to the rising challenge of
insurgency and terrorism, the greatest transformation in warfare
since the birth of the international system? Containing essays by
leading international security scholars and military professionals,
it explores the Fourth-Generation Warfare thesis and its
implications for security planning in the twenty-first century. No
longer confined to the fringes of armed conflict, guerrilla warfare
and terrorism increasingly dominate world-wide military planning.
For the first time since the Vietnam War ended, the problems of
insurgency have leapt to the top of the international security
agenda and virtually all countries are struggling to protect
themselves against terrorist threats. Coalition forces in
Afghanistan and Iraq are bogged down by an insurgency, and are
being forced to rely on old warfare tactics rather than modern
technologies to destroy their adversaries. These theorists argue
that irregular warfare insurgencies and terrorism has evolved over
time and become progressively more sophisticated and difficult to
defeat as it is not centred on high technology and state of the art
weaponry. Global Insurgency and the Future of Armed Conflict will
be of interest to students of international security, strategic
studies and terrorism studies.
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