The Postmodern Military

Author : Charles C. Moskos
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780195133288
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Postmodern Military written by Charles C. Moskos and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2000 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses contemporary civil-military trends by looking at specific areas in the US military. This book provides the student and defense professional with a foundation on which to base organizational and personal policies. It also tells readers about what life is really like in military, and how it is both the same and different around the world.

Author : Chris Hables Gray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317972929
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern War written by Chris Hables Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodern War poses an urgent challenge to the ways we conceptualize and actually wage war in our high technology age. Computerization and artificial intelligence have brought about a revolution in warfare spawning both increasingly powerful weapons and a rhetoric which disguises their apocalyptic potential in catch phrases like smart weapons and bloodless combat. Postmodern War examines: * contemporary practices of war, defining and critiquing trendy military doctrines hidden behind phrases like Infowar and Cyberwar * the roles of those who manipulate high technology, those who are manipulated by it, and those who are increasingly merging with it * the role of peace activists and socially responsible scientists in countering dangerous assumptions made by a postmodern military. Far from opposing technological change, however, Gray finds new hopes for peace in the twenty-first century. Provocative and far-reaching in its scope, the book argues that postmodern war has left us poised between the most dreadful and most utopian of alternatives: we may eradicate either the human race or war itself.

Author : James Burk
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Military In New Times written by James Burk and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What role will armed forces play in a world that is turbulent yet no longer organized by the bipolar conflict of East and West? In this volume, leading experts from several disciplines assess the rapidly changing global strategic and cultural landscape, examining how this will affect the responsibilities and social standing of the modern military." "There are provocative disagreements among the contributors, especially over whether we should expect and prepare for another global war. However, the contributors generally agree on several broad themes that guide their analysis. Arguing that the Cold War has masked basic trends that have been reshaping the international system for a long time, they suggest that the sovereign states' dominance of the international system is rapidly coming to an end, as multinational ethnic, regional and religious groups - to name a few - increasingly affect the course of global affairs." "In the absence of a clear "enemy," the military faces an identity crisis. In the postmodern atmosphere of this multicentric global order, authority is fragmented, and the exercise of any one authority is subject to greater scrutiny and challenge. The military has become more accepting of a variety of values, life-styles, and attitudes toward its tasks. At the same time, support for the military's mission is difficult to win, requiring endless justification." "The authors believe that the principal missions for the military in these new times are peacekeeping, peacemaking, and humanitarian assistance. They examine the prospects for successful operations in these areas, taking into account the cultural lag between world structures that favor increased multinational peacekeeping forces and individual nations that supply token resources to support such efforts. This volume provides a sophisticated and thought-provoking perspective on the future role of the military in the coming decades. It is sure to enrich the vigorous debate surrounding these issues."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Philip Hammond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113418834X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media, War and Postmodernity written by Philip Hammond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing theorists including Baudrillard and Virilio and covering conflicts including the two Gulf Wars, Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, Rwanda, Kosove, Afhanistan, and the War on Terror, this book investigates the new character of modern warfare, and why media presentation of conflict is so central to both Western military operations and terrorists.

Author : Ralph Peters
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811700849
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Baghdad written by Ralph Peters and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and accessible work, one of America's most provocative writers on strategy recounts the liberation of Iraq and analyzes its implications for the future of U.S. military strategy and foreign policy.

Author : Michael Bibby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vietnam War and Postmodernity written by Michael Bibby and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederic Jameson once characterized the Vietnam War as "the first terrible postmodernist war, " suggesting that it embodied or reflected the sensibility of an emerging historical epoch. But does it make sense to place a military conflict within a category of cultural and aesthetic periodization? Is it possible to see the Vietnam War as an expression and reflection of postmodernity -- what Jameson calls "the cultural logic of late capitalism"?

Author : Todd F. Davis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791482138
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kurt Vonnegut's Crusade; or, How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism written by Todd F. Davis and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I've worried some about why write books when presidents and senators and generals do not read them, and the university experience taught me a very good reason: you catch people before they become generals and senators and presidents, and you poison their minds with humanity. Encourage them to make a better world." — Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut's desire to save the planet from environmental and military destruction, to enact change by telling stories that both critique and embrace humanity, sets him apart from many of the postmodern authors who rose to prominence during the 1960s and 1970s. This new look at Vonnegut's oeuvre examines his insistence that writing is an "act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen." By exploring the moral and philosophical underpinnings of Vonnegut's work, Todd F. Davis demonstrates that, over the course of his long career, Vonnegut has created a new kind of humanism that not only bridges the modern and postmodern, but also offers hope for the power and possibilities of story. Davis highlights the ways Vonnegut deconstructs and demystifies the "grand narratives" of American culture while offering provisional narratives—petites histoires—that may serve as tools for daily living.

Author : Dean Karalekas
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787564827
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil-Military Relations in Taiwan written by Dean Karalekas and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study uses the postmodern military model to measure how public perception of the military is influenced by self-identification in Taiwan. It unveils the schism that exists between military and society, contributing to low morale and a lack of esprit de corps that puts the island’s forces at risk from an increasingly confident China.

Author : Jeff Geraghty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Warfare written by Jeff Geraghty and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The idea that warfare is changing drastically has garnered significant attention over the past few decades. Some commentators contend that such change is revolutionary, that warfare is entering a new era. Indeed, many historians, sociologists, and even practitioners of warfare argue that the entire history of human kind is entering a new era. A plethora of descriptors exist to describe such change, including terms such as the information age, the end of history, fourth generation warfare, or the postmodern epoch. Current events often serve as the basis for pundits to sound these calls of change. New technologies, developments in international politics, and changes in civil - military relationships seem to arrive quickly and promise unending alterations to society. However, a proper assessment of these developments must rely on a theory - based analysis. Furthermore, this assessment must be cognizant of great historical continuities in war and politics. These diverse descriptors of change have certain elements in common that deserve such a rigorous analysis grounded in theory. Namely, they tend to include discourse about postmodernist relativism, post - nationalism, and post - industrialism. This discourse often revolves around the nature of conflict itself, changes in global politics and civil - military relations, and novel technological innovation. Such changes can be more easily understood and assessed if they are bundled into a clear, coherent concept of postmodern warfare. Postmodern warfare clarifies the meaning of postmodernism and its war - related dimensions, and applies theory to current developments in order to understand them and make appropriate judgments. Postmodern warfare is comprised of identity - based politics, post - national global political structures, and post - industrial technology. Despite ubiquitous clamors of revolutionary change, postmodern warfare is out of sight, beyond the horizon. Nonetheless, a clear understanding of what postmodern warfare is helps leaders develop a plan for action and decision. "--Abstract.

Author : Philip Hammond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134188331
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media, War and Postmodernity written by Philip Hammond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media, War and Postmodernity investigates how conflict and international intervention have changed since the end of the Cold War, asking why Western military operations are now conducted as high-tech media spectacles, apparently more important for their propaganda value than for any strategic aims. Discussing the humanitarian interventions of the 1990s and the War on Terror, the book analyzes the rise of a postmodern sensibility in domestic and international politics, and explores how the projection of power abroad is undermined by a lack of cohesion and purpose at home. Drawing together debates from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, Philip Hammond argues that contemporary warfare may be understood as 'postmodern' in that it is driven by the collapse of grand narratives in Western societies and constitutes an attempt to recapture a sense of purpose and meaning.