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Author Zellen, Barry Scott

Title Art of War in an Asymmetric World : Strategy for the Post-Cold War Era
Published London : Continuum International Publishing, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (361 pages)
Contents Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; 1. Global Disorder: The Post-Cold War Era; The Bipolar Collapse and the Rise of Global Entropy; The Myth of Global Chaos; Toward a Neo-Medieval Era?; The Return of Ancient Times; 2. Asymmetrical Confl ict and the Information Age; War against Modernity: The Zapatista Uprising--From Tribal Insurgency to Netwar; From Globalization to Global Rebellion-- The Zapatista Effect; Anatomy of a Netwar; Netwar Comes of Age; Technology Strikes Back: Harnessing Disruption--Strategy for the Information Age
Info Warfare in the Age of Asymmetry: The Disruptive Technology FrameworkStrategic Disruption: William H. McRaven's Theory of Special Operations; Doctrinal Disruption: Arthur K. Cebrowski's Vision of Force Transformation; Tactical Disruption: John R. Boyd's OODA Loop; War in the Information Age: From Realpolitik to Cyberpolitik; 3. The Global War on Terror; Restoring Order in the Post-9/11 World; Two Sides of the COIN: America, Insurgency, and Counterinsurgency; Learning and Adaptation at War: The Heart of FM 3-24; FM 3-24: Drawing the Wrong Lessons from America's Vietnam Experience
The Cult of the COINdinistas: Counterinsurgency's Journey from Theory to DogmaThe Soup of War: Knives versus Spoons--A Debate; Netcentric versus Population-Centric War: Debate or Dialectic?; 4. The Art of War in an Asymmetric World; Gap versus Core: Digital Divide as New Boundary Line between Order and Chaos; Complexity Theory: Fortuna's Return; Insurgency in an Age of Complexity; Complexity and COIN: An Organic Systems Model of Insurgency; Counterinsurgency Redux: The Flip Side of the COIN; A Trinity of Counterinsurgency Warfare; Twenty-Eight Articles: From Theory to Practice
Reducing Complexity to Actionable Maxims5. The Tribal Foundations of Order; Restoring World Order, One Tribe at a Time; Order in the Vacuum of "Ungoverned" Spaces; The Art of War in the Tribal Zone; Tribe-State Confl ict and the War on Terror: A Persistent Fault Line of Confl ict; The Tribe: Both a New and an Old Foundation of World Order; Arab Spring: Glimmer of an Emergent Order; Rethinking the Subcomponents of World Order; Foundations of a New Trinity: The Organic, Synthetic, and Ethereal; Bibliography; Index
Summary The work examines the rise of the movements against globalization, modernization, and Western dominance that followed the collapse of the bipolar world and the end of the Cold War and that culminated with today's global jihadist movements. It describes how the U.S. had to adapt to this new, asymmetrical world of conflict with its strategic, doctrinal and theoretical responses to the threats of terrorism and insurgency that defined the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Unique in the breadth of its scope, the book connects movements from the Zapatista uprising to Al Qaeda's global jihad within a broa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Military art and science -- History -- 21st century
War.
World politics -- 1989-
Armed Conflicts
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
Military art and science
Military policy
War
World politics
SUBJECT United States -- Military policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140379
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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