| Description |
1 online resource (314 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Global Security Studies, 3 |
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Routledge Global Security Studies, 3
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
Covers a 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, this work explores the Fourth-Generation Warfare thesis and its implications for security planning in the 21st century |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Counterinsurgency.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
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Counterinsurgency
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Karp, Regina
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Terriff, Terry
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| ISBN |
9780203089279 |
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0203089278 |
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1282586084 |
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9781282586086 |
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