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Record Nr.

UNINA9910693549903321

Titolo

Challenging the United States symmetrically and asymmetrically [[electronic resource] ] : can America be defeated? / / edited by Lloyd J. Matthews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carlisle Barracks, Pa. : , : U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, , [1998]

Altri autori (Persone)

BlankStephen <1950->

DoughtyRobert A

DunlapCharles J., Jr.

GlabusEdmund M

GuilmartinJohn F., Jr. <1940-2016.> (John Francis)

KinnanTimothy A

MatthewsLloyd J

MrozekDonald J

PelletiereStephen C

PetersRalph <1952->

ScalesRobert H. <1944->

SchakeKori N

SloanStephen <1936->

SteeleRobert D

WilliamsJohn Allen <1945->

Soggetti

National security - United States

War - Forecasting

World politics - 1989-

United States Defenses

United States Military policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"July 1998."

An outgrowth of the U.S. Army War College's Ninth Annual Strategy Conference, held at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, March 31-April 2, 1998.



Title from title screen.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary observations: asymmetrical warfare and the western mindset / Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. -- Technology and asymmetrics in modern warfare / John F. Guilmartin, Jr. -- Myth of Blitzkrieg / Robert A. Doughty -- Asymmetric response to American air supremacy in Vietnam / Donald J. Mrozek -- Takedown : targets, tools, and technocracy / Robert D. Steele -- Information peacekeeping : the purest form of war / Robert D. Steele -- Terrorism and asymmetry / Stephen Sloan -- Metaphors and modern threats : biological, computer, and cognitive viruses / Edmund M. Glabus -- Our new old enemies / Ralph Peters -- How we will lose the war with Russia : a critique of U.S. military strategy / Stephen J. Blank -- Regional state competitors : the case of Iraq / Stephen C. Pelletiere -- Beyond Russia and China : a survey of threats to U.S. security from lessor states / Kori N. Schake -- Roundtable on Future Responses : John Allen Williams, Timothy A. Kinnan, and Robert H. Scales, Jr.