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Modern War and the Utility of Force - Challenges, Methods and Strategy (Paperback)
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Modern War and the Utility of Force - Challenges, Methods and Strategy (Paperback)
Series: Cass Military Studies
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This book investigates the use and utility of military force in
modern war. After the Cold War, Western armed forces have
increasingly been called upon to intervene in internal conflicts in
the former Third World. These forces have been called upon to carry
out missions that they traditionally have not been trained and
equipped for, in environments that they often have not been
prepared for. A number of these 'new' types of operations in
allegedly 'new' wars stand out, such as peace enforcement,
state-building, counter-insurgency, humanitarian aid, and not the
least counter-terrorism. The success rate of these missions has,
however, been mixed, providing fuel for an increasingly loud debate
on the utility of force in modern war. This edited volume poses as
its central question: what is in fact the utility of force? Is
force useful for anything other than a complete conventional defeat
of a regular opponent, who is confronted in the open field? This
book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, war
and conflict studies, counter-insurgency, security studies and IR.
Isabelle Duyvesteyn is an Associate Professor at the Department of
History of International Relations, Utrecht University in the
Netherlands. Jan Angstrom is a researcher at the Swedish National
Defence College.
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