Global Insurgency and the Future of Armed Conflict: Debating Fourth-Generation Warfare
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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 first time since the Vietnam War ended, the problems of insurgency have leapt to the top of the international security agenda and virtually all countries are struggling to protect themselves against terrorist threats. Coalition forces in Afghanistan and Iraq are bogged down by an insurgency, and are being forced to rely on old warfare tactics rather than modern technologies to destroy their adversaries. These theorists argue that irregular warfare―insurgencies and terrorism―has evolved over time and become progressively more sophisticated and difficult to defeat as it is not centered on high technology and state of the art weaponry. [From Amazon.com]
ISBN
9780415413572
Publication Date
2008
Publisher
Routledge
City
Abingdon, United Kingdom
Keywords
Armed conflict, International security, Guerrilla warfare, Insurgencies, Terrorism, Military strategy
Disciplines
International Relations | Military and Veterans Studies | Peace and Conflict Studies | Terrorism Studies
Recommended Citation
Terriff, Terry (Editor); Karp, Aaron (Editor); and Karp, Reginia (Editor), "Global Insurgency and the Future of Armed Conflict: Debating Fourth-Generation Warfare" (2008). Political Science & Geography Faculty Books. 32.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/politicalscience_geography_books/32