Suchergebnisse

This handbook will examine the context of war from the scholarly discipline's key theoretical perspectives and analyse the contemporary conduct of war at strategic, military, civilian, and organisational levels. In addition to examining the role war plays in the shifting and shaping of global norms, values, and structures, it will assess the machinery behind the war, in particular the defence and technological base of war as well as the mechanisms necessary to successfully govern victory and defeat. In addition to the classical Western approach the volume will incorporate perspectives from around the globe

Julian Lindley-French and James Townsend describe the potential path and pitfalls in pursuing an optimal effect for NATO, with one of the main recommendations being clearer focus. Energy competition, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, global reach terrorism, pandemics, global warming, cyber-defense, critical infrastructure disruption and destruction and, the continuing conflict in Afghanistan all provide the sober backdrop to a series of summits that will take place over the 2008-2010 period. Figures. Adapted from the source document.