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Polemology --- MILITARY ART AND SCIENCE --- COUNTERINSURGENCY
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In 1993, a newly-appointed CIA director warned that Western powers might have 'slain a large dragon' with the fall of the USSR, but now faced a 'bewildering variety of poisonous snakes'. Since then, both dragons (state enemies like Russia and China) and snakes (terrorist and guerrilla organisations) have watched the US struggle in Iraq and Afghanistan, and mastered new methods in response; hybrid and urban warfare, political manipulation, and harnessing digital technology. In this book, the author reveals everything the West's opponents have learned from twenty-first century conflict and explains how their cutting-edge tactics and adaptability pose a serious threat to America and its allies, disabling the West's military advantage. The book is a compelling, counterintuitive look at the new, vastly complex global arena. The author reshapes our understanding of the West's foes, and shows how it can respond.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS --- MILITARY ART AND SCIENCE --- Polemology
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"From smart munitions and ground penetrating radar to autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence and drones, the mode of warfare is currently undergoing a rapid transformation, with modern technologies reshaping how armies fight in the twenty-first century. Modern Weapons and Tactics analyses the choices that armies confront as they try and combine old and new capabilities. Based upon extensive observation and practical experimentation with emerging systems, Jack Watling charts how the decisions armies make to seek advantage from novel technologies inevitably determine their effectiveness and success on the battlefield. At a time when defence spending across NATO is on the rise, and conflict with Russia raises new questions of what it means to fight a truly 'modern' war, Watling demonstrates how armies must fight, rather than simply assert what they will fight with"--
Tactics --- Strategy --- Military art and science --- Polemology
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A complete guide to modern warfare in all its different contexts and environments that introduces the issues, ideas, concepts and vocabulary necessary to develop an understanding of the strategy and conduct of modern warfare.
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Military art and science --- Strategy --- Military art and science. --- Strategy. --- Bedrijfsbeleid --- Clausewitz, von, Carl --- Business policy
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Hybrid War, Grey Zone Warfare, Unrestricted War. Traditional conflict - fought with guns, bombs, and drones - has become too expensive to wage, too unpopular at home, and too difficult to manage. In an age when America threatens Europe with sanctions, and when China spends billions buying influence abroad, the world is heading for a new era of permanent low-level conflict, often unnoticed, undeclared, and unending. The author provides a comprehensive and ground-breaking survey of the new way of war. Ranging across the globe, he shows how today's conflicts are fought with everything from disinformation and espionage to crime and subversion, leading to instability within countries and a legitimacy crisis across the globe. But rather than suggest that we hope for a return to a bygone era of 'stable' warfare, the author details ways of surviving, adapting, and taking advantage of the opportunities presented by this new reality.
MILITARY ART AND SCIENCE --- Military art and science --- World politics --- Polemology
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Polemology --- Military art and science --- Naval art and science --- Dictionaries.
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STRATEGY --- DECEPTION (MILITARY SCIENCE) --- MILITARY ART AND SCIENCE --- Polemology
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A sobering and fascinating study on war in the modern era, this book carefully explores strategies that militarily and politically disadvantaged nations might take in order to successfully attack a geopolitical superpower like the United States. American military doctrine is typically led by technology; a new class of weapon or vehicle is developed, which allows or encourages an adjustment in strategy. The authors argue that this dynamic is a crucial weakness in the American military, and that this blind spot with regard to alternative forms of warfare could be effectively exploited by enemies. This book concerns the many ways in which this might occur, and, in turn, suggests what the United States might do to defend itself. The traditional mentality that offensive action is limited to military action is no longer adequate given the range of contemporary threats and the rising costs - both in dollars and lives lost - of traditional warfare. Instead, the authors suggest the significance of alternatives to direct military confrontation, including international policy, economic warfare, attacks on digital infrastructure and networks, and terrorism. Even a relatively insignificant state can incapacitate a far more powerful enemy by applying pressure to their economic and political systems.
Polemology --- WAR--FORECASTING --- MILITARY ART AND SCIENCE--FORECASTING
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