04457oam 2200769I 450 991045939730332120200520144314.01-134-12414-71-134-12415-51-282-58608-497866125860880-203-08927-810.4324/9780203089279 (CKB)2670000000013750(EBL)496292(OCoLC)609858855(SSID)ssj0000360603(PQKBManifestationID)11231429(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000360603(PQKBWorkID)10326453(PQKB)10905886(SSID)ssj0001145317(PQKBManifestationID)12373944(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001145317(PQKBWorkID)11122630(PQKB)11499611(MiAaPQ)EBC496292(Au-PeEL)EBL496292(CaPaEBR)ebr10382392(CaONFJC)MIL258608(OCoLC)711583054(EXLCZ)99267000000001375020180706d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGlobal insurgency and the future of armed conflict debating fourth-generation warfare /edited by Terry Terriff, Aaron Karp and Regina KarpLondon :Routledge,2008.1 online resource (314 p.)Routledge Global Security StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-77837-9 0-415-41357-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Warfare8 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?; IndexThis 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 firsRoutledge Global Security StudiesCounterinsurgencyWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009Electronic books.Counterinsurgency.War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.355.02/18Cowen Karp Regina907170Karp Aaron907171Terriff Terry1953-907172MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459397303321Global insurgency and the future of armed conflict2029586UNINA