Global insurgency and the future of armed conflict : debating fourth-generation warfare / edited by Terry Terriff, Aaron Karp and Regina Karp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Karp, Aaron.

Cowen Karp, Regina.

Terriff, Terry, 1953-

Series:

Routledge global security studies . 2.

Routledge global security studies ; . 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Counterinsurgency.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

Physical Description:

ix, 303 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Contents:

1 The Fourth Generation Warfare debate / Aaron Karp, Regina Karp, Terry Terriff 3

Part II The re-discovery of Fourth Generation Warfare 11

2 The changing face of war: into the fourth generation / William S. Lind, Colonel Keith Nightengale (USA), Captain John F. Schmitt (USMC), Colonel Joseph W. Sutton (USA), Lieutenant Colonel Gary I. Wilson (USMCR) 13

3 War evolves into the fourth generation / Thomas X. Hammes 21

Part III Evaluating Fourth Generation Warfare theory 45

4 Politics with guns: a response to T.X. Hammes' "War evolves into the fourth generation" / James J. Wirtz 47

5 A brief note on "Fourth Generation Warfare" / Edward Luttwak 52

6 It will continue to conquer and spread / Martin van Creveld 54

7 Deconstructing the theory of Fourth-Generation Warfare / Antulio J. Echevarria II 58

8 Elegant irrelevance revisited: a critique of Fourth Generation Warfare / Michael Evans 67

9 Generations at war? / John Ferris 75

10 War evolves into the fourth generation: a comment on Thomas X. Hammes / Lawrence Freedman 78

11 Fourth Generation: a 'new' form of 'warfare'? / Rod Thornton 87

12 The mythology of fourth-generation warfare: a response to Hammes / David S. Sorenson 95

13 The will doesn't triumph / William S. Lind 101

14 Response / Thomas X. Hammes 105

Part IV Fourth Generation wars 113

15 America in peril: fourth generation warfare in the twenty-first century / Colonel Chet Richards (USAF, Retired), Lieutenant-Colonel Greg Wilcox (USA, Retired), Colonel G.I. Wilson (USMC, Retired) 115

16 Fourth Generation Warfare in Afghanistan / Warren Chin 132

17 The end of Israeli omnipotence? / Avi Kober 147

18 Fourth Generation Warfare in Africa: back to the future? / Paul Jackson 165

Part V The implications of Fourth Generation Warfare 175

19 Combating Fourth Generation Warfare / F.G. Hoffman 177

20 Information operations in 4GW / Thomas X. Hammes 200

21 The flight to irrelevance? Air power and Fourth Generation Warfare / Donald A. Maccuish 208

22 Venus calling: can NATO cope with 4GW? / Colonel Dr. Frans Osinga 226

23 Transforming NATO for a Fourth Generation Warfare world / Diego A. Ruiz Palmer 243

24 Fighting Fourth Generation wars: the Indian experience / Rajesh Rajagopalan 260

25 Can we adapt to Fourth Generation Warfare? / Terry Terriff, Regina Karp, Aaron Karp 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415413575

9780415413572

0203089278

9780203089279

OCLC:

77821429

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