Future war in cities [[electronic resource] ] : rethinking a liberal dilemma / / Alice Hills

• Autore: Hills Alice <1950->
• Pubblicazione: London, : Frank Cass, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.426
• Soggetto topico: Urban warfare; Political violence
• 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
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is the first full-length study of a key security issue confronting the west in the twenty-first century, urban military operations - as currently being undertaken by US and UK forces in Iraq. It relates military operations in cities to the wider study of conflict and security in an era of urbanisation, expeditionary warfare and new power conflicts; its central process is urban operations, but its context is the changing security environment, whose features are revealed in conflicts within cities.Within a framework analysing conventional operations, the author identifies the c
• Titolo autorizzato: Future war in cities
• ISBN: 0-429-23025-7; 1-280-07723-9; 0-203-32312-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783864403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II