Global insurgency and the future of armed conflict : debating fourth-generation warfare / / edited by Terry Terriff, Aaron Karp and Regina Karp

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818238903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Routledge, , 2008
• ISBN: 1-134-12414-7; 1-134-12415-5; 1-282-58608-4; 9786612586088; 0-203-08927-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Collana: Routledge Global Security Studies
• Altri autori (Persone): Cowen KarpRegina; KarpAaron; TerriffTerry <1953->
• Disciplina: 355.02/18
• Soggetti: Counterinsurgency; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part I Introduction; 1 The Fourth Generation Warfare debate; Part II The re-discovery of Fourth Generation Warfare; 2 The changing face of war: Into the fourth generation; 3 War evolves into the fourth generation; Part III Evaluating Fourth Generation Warfare theory; 4 Politics with guns: A response to T.X. Hammes' "War evolves into the fourth generation"; 5 A brief note on "Fourth Generation Warfare"; 6 It will continue to conquer and spread; 7 Deconstructing the theory of Fourth-Generation Warfare; 8 Elegant irrelevance revisited: A critique of Fourth Generation Warfare9 Generations at war?; 10 War evolves into the fourth generation: A comment on Thomas X. Hammes; 11 Fourth Generation: A 'new' form of 'warfare'?; 12 The mythology of fourthgeneration warfare: A response to Hammes; 13 The will doesn't triumph; 14 Response; Part IV Fourth Generation wars; 15 America in Peril: Fourth generation warfare in the twenty-first century; 16 Fourth Generation Warfare in ; Afghanistan; 17 The end of Israeli omnipotence?; 18 Fourth Generation Warfare in Africa: Back to the future?; Part V The implications of Fourth Generation Warfare19 Combating Fourth Generation Warfare; 20 Information operations in 4GW; 21 The flight to irrelevance?: Air power and Fourth Generation Warfare; 22 Venus calling: Can NATO cope with 4GW?; 23 Transforming NATO for a Fourth Generation Warfare world; 24 Fighting Fourth Generation wars: The Indian experience; Part VI Conclusion; 25 Can we adapt to Fourth Generation Warfare?; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume covers a timely debate in contemporary security studies: can armed forces adjust to the rising challenge of insurgency and terrorism, the greatest transformation in warfare since the birth of the international system? Containing essays by leading international security scholars and military professionals, it explores the Fourth-Generation Warfare thesis and its implications for security planning in the twenty-first century.No longer confined to the fringes of armed conflict, guerrilla warfare and terrorism increasingly dominate world-wide military planning. For the firs