The Transformation of War
by gmoke
Thu Sep 21, 2006 at 09:26:22 PM PDT
We are in a new world of warfare where small groups can commit acts of disproportionate damage. This is called asymmetric warfare and is the kind of conflict we will be engaged in for the foreseeable future, unless, God help us, we begin to use nuclear bombs.
There are a few people who know this and are writing about it. In the US, John Robb of http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/ and, from a somewhat different point of view, Thomas Barnett of http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/...
One name that keeps on coming up is Martin van Creveld, an Israeli. His book, The Transformation of War, was published in 1991 and is prescient and pertinent. I wonder if they read him in the Pentagon. I hope we will read him here on dailykos. My (extensive) notes from the book follow.
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