Rethinking Warfare In The 21st Century

Author : Iulian Chifu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009355260
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Warfare in the 21st Century written by Iulian Chifu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to critically review and evaluate the changes and consistencies in how warfare is interpreted and represented by academics, mass media outlets and political actors in the 21st century. The authors suggest that it is essential to understand the evolution and transformation of contemporary warfare's conceptualisation and practice in order to make sense of the current global geopolitical transformations that are in process, from a unipolar to multipolar global order. They therefore examine the various key actors in international relations from conceptual, theoretical and empirical perspectives through thematic chapters that demonstrate the increasingly central role played by intangible factors in the representation and management of contemporary armed conflict. The book stresses the need to reflect and rethink the potentially highly problematic trajectory of the global community within the framework of 21st century warfare's political and informational influence and effects.

Author : Doctor Amy Eckert
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848137710
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the 21st Century written by Doctor Amy Eckert and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking the 21st Century brings much needed context and perspective to the security problems we face today. In recent years, the 'Bush Doctrine' - that the security threats we now face are entirely unprecedented - has echoed around the world. Global security and stability is now challenged not only by states and nuclear war, but by insurgency, disease, environmental degradation and military privatisation. Yet this creates a deep sense of disconnect in the way we perceive politics, and can be dangerously stark and ahistorical. The chapters here show that, far from being a clean break, the 'new' problems faced today might actually have 'old' solutions. What can Locke tell us about terrorists? What does Bentham have to say about sanctions? What are the ethics of outsourcing war to private companies? By looking back to decades and even centuries of ethical analysis and political theory, this book provides fascinating insight into all these questions.

Author : Isabelle Duyvesteyn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415354625
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Nature of War written by Isabelle Duyvesteyn and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretations of war as driven by politics and state rationale, formulated most importantly by the nineteenth-century practitioner Carl von Clausewitz, have received strong criticism. Political explanations have been said to fall short in explaining conflicts in the Balkans, Africa, Asia and the attacks of September 11 2001 in the United States. This book aims to re-evaluate these criticisms by not only carefully scrutinising Clausewitz's arguments and their applicability, but also by a careful reading of the criticism itself. In doing so, the contributions on this book present empirical evidence on the basis of several case studies, addressing various aspects of modern war, such as the actors, conduct and purposes of war. The book concludes that while the debate on the nature of war has far from run its course, the interpretation of war as postulated by Clausewitz is not as inapplicable as some have claimed.

Author : Gregory Simons
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317039017
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Face of Warfare in the 21st Century written by Gregory Simons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study discusses salient trends demonstrated by contemporary warfare of these first years of the 21st century. The authors reinforce previous notions of Fourth Generation Warfare, but most importantly explore the workings of new components and how these have modified the theory and practice of warfare beyond the basic divisions of conventional and unconventional warfare as witnessed in the preceding century. Throughout history there has been a close interaction between politics, communication and armed conflict and a main line of investigation of this book is to track changes that are presumed to have occurred in the way and manner in which armed conflicts are waged. Using cogent examples drawn variously from conflicts of the Arab Spring, the Islamic State and Russian adventurism in South Ossetia, Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, the authors demonstrate the application of Information Warfare, the practice of Hybrid Warfare, and offensive use of diplomacy, communications, economics and international law to obtain political and military advantages against the status quo states of the international community. The authors combine a theoretical framework with concrete empirical examples in order to create a better understanding and comprehension of the current events and processes that shape the character of contemporary armed conflicts and how they are informed and perceived in a highly mediatised and politicised world.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428911596
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armed Conflict in the 21st Century: The Information Revolution and Post-Modern Warfare written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ann Hironaka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107175119
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tokens of Power written by Ann Hironaka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What motivates going to war? This book reexamines how leaders make decisions based on appearances of power over military reality.

Author : Lawrence Grinter
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781478361886
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battlefield of the Future - 21st Century Warfare Issues written by Lawrence Grinter and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about strategy and war fighting. It contains 11 essays which examine topics such as military operations against a well-armed rogue state, the potential of parallel warfare strategy for different kinds of states, the revolutionary potential of information warfare, the lethal possibilities of biological warfare and the elements of an ongoing revolution in military affairs. The purpose of the book is to focus attention on the operational problems, enemy strategies and threat that will confront U.S. national security decision makers in the twenty-first century.

Author : Barry R. Schneider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battlefield of the Future written by Barry R. Schneider and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of the essays in this book focus on issues relating to strategy and war fighting as the world moves into the twenty-first century. In these ten essays, the authors examine the debate over the future of airpower, the unique threat of biological warfare, the impact of the information revolution on warfare, and how changes in military technology might require a rethinking of the principles of warfare. These authors address whether new military technologies, new organization for warfare, and new strategies for employing forces on future battlefields will produce a revolution in military affairs.

Author : Barry R. Schneider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780898757897
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battlefield of the Future written by Barry R. Schneider and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of the essays in this book focus on issues relating to strategy and war fighting as the world moves into the twenty-first century. In these ten essays, the authors examine the debate over the future of air power, the unique threat of biological warfare, the impact of the information revolution on warfare, and how changes in military technology might require a rethinking of the principles of warfare. These authors address whether new military technologies, new organization for warfare, and new strategies for employing forces on future battlefields will produce a revolution in military affairs.

Author : Steven Metz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armed Conflict in the 21st Century written by Steven Metz and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: