Today's warfare has moved away from being an event between massed
national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using
high-tech weaponry. The editors of and contributors to the timely
collection Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World
show that this shift reflects changes in the technological,
strategic, ideological, and ethical realms. The essays in this
volume discuss: *the waning connection between citizenship and
soldiering; *the shift toward more reconstructive than destructive
activities by militaries; *the ethics of irregular or asymmetrical
warfare; *the role of novel techniques of identification in
military settings; *the stress on precision associated with
targeted killings and kidnappings; *the uses of the social sciences
in contemporary warfare. In his concluding remarks, David Jacobson
explores the extent to which the contemporary transformation of
warfare is a product of a shift in the character of the combatants
themselves. Contributors include: Ariel Colonomos, Roberto J.
Gonzalez, Travis R. Hall, Saskia Hooiveld, Rob Johnson, Colonel C.
Anthony Pfaff, Ian Roxborough, and the editors
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