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This handbook provides a comprehensive, problem-driven and dynamic
overview of the future of warfare. The volatilities and
uncertainties of the global security environment raise timely and
important questions about the future of humanity’s oldest
occupation: war. This volume addresses these questions through a
collection of cutting-edge contributions by leading scholars in the
field. Its overall focus is prognostic rather than futuristic,
highlighting discernible trends, key developments and themes
without downplaying the lessons from the past. By making the past
meet the present in order to envision the future, the handbook
offers a diversified outlook on the future of warfare, which will
be indispensable for researchers, students and military
practitioners alike. The volume is divided into six thematic
sections. Section I draws out general trends in the phenomenon of
war and sketches the most significant developments, from the past
to the present and into the future. Section II looks at the areas
and domains which actively shape the future of warfare. Section III
engages with the main theories and conceptions of warfare,
capturing those attributes of contemporary conflicts which will
most likely persist and determine the dynamics and directions of
their transformations. The fourth section addresses differentiation
and complexity in the domain of warfare, pointing to those factors
which will exert a strong impact on the structure and properties of
that domain. Section V focuses on technology as the principal
trigger of changes and alterations in the essence of warfare. The
final section draws on the general trends identified in Section I
and sheds light on how those trends have manifested in specific
local contexts. This section zooms in on particular geographies
which are seen and anticipated as hotbeds where future warfare will
most likely assume its shape and reveal its true colours. This book
will be of great interest to students of strategic studies, defence
studies, war and technology, and International Relations.
Concerns for the lives of soldiers and innocent civilians have come
to underpin Western, and particularly American, warfare. Yet this
new mode of conflict faces a dilemma: these two norms have opened
new areas of vulnerability that have been systematically exploited
by non-state adversaries. This strategic behaviour creates a
trade-off, forcing decision-makers to have to choose between saving
soldiers and civilians in target states. Sebastian Kaempf examines
the origin and nature of this dilemma, and in a detailed analysis
of the US conflicts in Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq, investigates
the ways the US has responded, assessing the legal, moral, and
strategic consequences. Scholars and students of military and
strategic studies, international relations and peace and conflict
studies will be interested to read Kaempf's analysis of whether the
US or its adversaries have succeeded in responding to this central
dilemma of contemporary warfare.
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