The Revenge of the Melians - Asymmetric Threats and the Next QDR (Paperback)

CONTENTS Foreword Introduction What is Asymmetric Warfare? Defining Asymmetry -- Characteristics: Disparity of Interest -- Targeting the Will of the Opponent -- Attaining Strategic Effect on All Levels of War -- The Importance of Effectiveness -- The Threat-Response Dynamic -- A Final Example: The Gulf Tanker War -- Conclusions A Typology of Asymmetry: What, Who, and When? The What: The Range of Potential Asymmetric Threats -- The Who: Regional, Rogue, and Nonstate Actors -- The When: Likelihood During Phases of a Crisis --Conclusions Looking in the Mirror: Where Are Our Asymmetric Vulnerabilities? Measuring Conventional Military Superiority --Examining the Homeland --Quantifying the Homeland: What Are the Targets? --Examining Potential Vulnerabilities Categorizing the Threats What Are the Ten Asymmetric Threats? --Conclusions An Option of Difficulties --Countering Asymmetric Threats Current Initiatives: The State of Play Today -- Summarizing Current Initiatives -- Doing Better: Beginning with Three Ideas -- Policy Recommendations -- An Option of Difficulties? Conclusions: The Uneasy Athenians Endnotes

General

Imprint:	University Press of the Pacific
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	Kenneth McKenzie
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	124
ISBN-13:	978-1-4102-1941-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
LSN:	1-4102-1941-0
Barcode:	9781410219411

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