The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and Its Crisis in Iraq
In this seminal new work, Martin Shaw, a leading expert on the sociology of war, argues that the new Western way of war is in crisis. He charts the development of a new warfare, after Vietnam, through the Falklands, the Gulf, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He argues that in the Iraq (mis)adventure (of which he provides a detailed analysis) and the War on Terror, the US has consistently flouted the key rules that enabled Western states to fight these earlier wars successfully. The results are not only political failure and a disaster in Iraq, but also a loss of credibility for the very idea of Western warfare.For Shaw, the new way of war focuses on c…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7456-3410-4
- EAN: 9780745634104
- Produktnummer: 1483597
- Verlag: Polity Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 183 S.
- Masse: H22.5 cm x B14.9 cm x D2.0 cm 386 g
- Gewicht: 386
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