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Conceptualising Modern War (Hardcover)
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Conceptualising Modern War (Hardcover)
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Since the end of the Cold War, scholars, military historians and
analysts have struggled to agree a workable definition of
contemporary warfare with reference to the conflicts that have
erupted since 1989, whether in the former Yugoslavia, Iraq or
Afghanistan, to name only a few.
Among the many attempts to hit the right conceptual note are
asymmetrical war, 'Fourth Generation War' and, perhaps the most
influential of all, 'New Wars'.
In addition to these attempts to define war, the West's military
establishments, with the Pentagon in the vanguard, have worked hard
to map out new strategic and tactical concepts in order to try to
win these wars. Two of the more influential from recent years are
Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) and Effects-Based Operations (EBO).
The contributors to Conceptualising Modern War contend that very
few of these terms and concepts are particularly useful when it
comes to defining war or to creating a winning strategy. On that
basis it is easy to ridicule every one of these terms and concepts,
but the aim of the contributors to this book - who include Hew
Strachan, David Kilcullen, Steven Metz, Helen Dexter and Ian
Beckett - is instead to search for meaning where meaning can be
found. Can these terms and concepts tell us something about the
development of war and how wars can be won?
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