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Todayâs warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using high-tech weaponry. The editors of and contributors to the timely collection Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World show that this shift reflects changes in the technological, strategic, ideological, and ethical realms. The essays in this volume discuss:· the waning connection between citizenship and soldiering; · the shift toward more reconstructive than destructive activities by militaries; · the ethics of irregular or asymmetrical warfare; · the role of novel techniques of identification in military settings; · the stress on precision associated with targeted killings and kidnappings; · the uses of the social sciences in contemporary warfare.  In his concluding remarks, David Jacobson explores the extent to which the contemporary transformation of warfare is a product of a shift in the character of the combatants themselves. Contributors include: Ariel Colonomos, Roberto J. González, Travis R. Hall, Saskia Hooiveld, Rob Johnson, Colonel C. Anthony Pfaff, Ian Roxborough, and the editors
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9781439913123 | Temple Univ Pr, June 3, 2016, cover price $99.50
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9781439913130 | Reprint edition (Temple Univ Pr, June 3, 2016), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Todayâs warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using high-tech weaponry.
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9781594204982 | Penguin Pr, October 16, 2014, cover price $27.95
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9780143127765 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, October 13, 2015), cover price $17.00
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9781612518077 | Naval Inst Pr, March 15, 2015, cover price $21.95
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9781107067172 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 29, 2014, cover price $85.00
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9781107637139 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 30, 2014, cover price $29.99
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9780804788465 | Stanford Univ Pr, October 2, 2013, cover price $27.95
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9780804786591 | Stanford Univ Pr, October 2, 2013, cover price $95.00
Product Description: Changes in the 21st century security environment require new analytic approaches to support strategic deterrence. Because current adversaries may be deterred from the use of nuclear weapons differently than were Cold War adversaries, the Air Force needs an analytic process and tools that can help determine those Air Force capabilities that will successfully deter or defeat these new nuclear-armed adversaries and assure U...read more
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9780309285476 | Natl Academy Pr, May 31, 2013, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Changes in the 21st century security environment require new analytic approaches to support strategic deterrence.
Product Description: This provocative book seeks to answer a most crucialâand embarrassingâquestion concerning the U.S. military: why the United States is so often stymied in military confrontations with seemingly weaker opponents, despite its "superpower" status...read more
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9780313395826 | Praeger Pub Text, November 30, 2011, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: This provocative book seeks to answer a most crucialâand embarrassingâquestion concerning the U.
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9781600142789 | Bellwether Media, August 1, 2009, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A Marine Expeditionary Unit is a small, quick reaction force used to immediately respond to any crisis.
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9780160832192 | Congressional Budget Office, June 16, 2009, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A CBO study.
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9781597972628, titled "National Security Dilemmas: Challenges & Opportunities" | Potomac Books Inc, January 9, 2009, cover price $60.00
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9781597972635, titled "National Security Dilemmas: Challenges & Opportunities" | Potomac Books Inc, January 9, 2009, cover price $29.95
Product Description: An Industrial Age model continues to shape the way the Army approaches its recruiting, personnel management, training, and education. This outdated personnel management paradigmâdesigned for an earlier eraâhas been so intimately tied to the maintenance of Army culture that a self-perpetuating cycle has formed, diminishing the Army's attempts to develop adaptive leaders and institutions...read more
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9780313345623 | Praeger Security Intl, October 30, 2008, cover price $83.00 | About this edition: An Industrial Age model continues to shape the way the Army approaches its recruiting, personnel management, training, and education.
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9780833041890 | Rand Corp, October 15, 2007, cover price $23.00
Product Description: Now that the initial patriotic euphoria over the spectacular "Desert Storm" campaign has settled down, people are looking for more sophisticated accounts of the war and what it can teach us for the future. The editors of this volume have assembled the world's foremost military authorities to reexamine the nature of warfare in the wake of the Persian Gulf War...read more
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9780813322926 | Westview Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Now that the initial patriotic euphoria over the spectacular "Desert Storm" campaign has settled down, people are looking for more sophisticated accounts of the war and what it can teach us for the future.
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9780892061785 | Center for Strategic & Intl studies, July 1, 1991, cover price $14.95
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9780887386145 | Transaction Pub, June 1, 1985, cover price $30.95
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