Future war in cities : rethinking a liberal dilemma /
This book is the first full-length study of a key security issue confronting the West in the 21st century: urban military operations, as undertaken by US and UK forces in Iraq. It relates operations in cities to the wider study of conflict and.
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | London ; New York : Frank Cass, 2004. |
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Table of Contents:
- Rationalities
- Cities and Military Operations : Urban Operations ; The Operational Environment ; Future Conflict ; Expanding Understanding ; Key Assumptions ; Structure of Analysis
- Thinking about Urban Operations : Doctrine ; Characteristic Approaches to Urban Operations
- Technology and War : The Lure of Technology ; Airpower ; Multinational Urban Operations ; Technology's Supporting Role
- Wasteland
- Policing : Categorising Operations ; Environmental Challenges ; The Military Task ; The Limits of Policing ; Unanswered Questions
- Enforcement : Unpredictable Operations ; Tactical Skills
- Warfighting : Urban War ; Transitional Wars ; Gozny ; Enduring Features
- Reconstruction
- The Evolution of War : Defining Security ; Conflict and Development ; Expanding Operations ; Making War and Peace
- Controlling Non-combatants : Controlling Cities ; Targeting Civilians ; Control Variables ; Control and Infrastructure War
- The Intractable Nature of Urban Operations : Analytical Challenges ; Moral Challenges ; Controversy over Weapons ; Reconciling the Irreconcilable
- The Logic of Urban Operations : An Urban Operations Hypothesis ; Rebalancing Tactics and Strategy ; Future Operations ; Conclusions
- Afterword.