The Art of War in an Asymmetric World: Strategy for the Post-Cold War Era

ISBN-13: 9781628920888 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 352 str.

Barry Scott Zellen

Opis

The work examines the rise of the movements against globalization, modernization, and Western dominance that followed the collapse of the bipolar world and the end of the Cold War and that culminated with today's global jihadist movements. It describes how the U.S. had to adapt to this new, asymmetrical world of conflict with its strategic, doctrinal and theoretical responses to the threats of terrorism and insurgency that defined the Global War on Terror (GWOT).Unique in the breadth of its scope, the book connects movements from the Zapatista uprising to Al Qaeda's global jihad within a broader historical framework, connecting pre and post-9/11 conflicts under the unifying theme of a struggle against the forces of modernization. Featuring the works of key theorists such as John Arquilla, Thomas P.M. Barnett, Arthur K. Cebrowski, Jim Gant, Samuel P. Huntington, Robert D. Kaplan, David J. Kilcullen, William H. McRaven, and David Ronfeldt, this book bridges the fields of counterinsurgency, homeland security, counterterrorism, cyberwarfare, and technology of war, and will be a must-read for academics, policymakers and strategists.

Recenzje

Zellen has once again created a masterpiece. With a unique and penetrating view of the world and human behavior, Zellen has penned another stirring analysis of our modern condition. You don't have to agree with him, but you cannot ignore him. Alan Tidwell, Director, Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies, Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, USA

Spis treści

Foreword by David A. Anderson, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College1. Global Disorder: The Post-Cold War Era: The Bipolar Collapse and the Rise of Global Entropy 2. Asymmetrical Conflict and the Information Age: From Globalization to Global Rebellion3. The Global War on Terror: Restoring Order in the Post-9/11 World 4. The Art of War in an Asymmetric World 5. The Tribal Foundations of Order: Restoring Order, One Tribe at a Time

O autorze

Barry Scott Zellen is a senior research scholar at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, USA, where he is Director of the Project on Climate and Conflict and Editor-in-Chief of The Culture and Conflict Review and The Climate and Conflict Review journals. He has published several books, including State of Doom: Bernard Brodie, the Bomb, and the Birth of the Bipolar World (Continuum, 2011). Barry Scott Zellen is the research director of the Arctic Security Project at the Center for Contemporary Conflict at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, where he is also the deputy editor of Strategic Insights.Barry Scott Zellen is editor of the Strategic Insights Journal and the Culture and Conflict Review at the Naval Postgraduate School, where he also serves as research director of the Arctic Security Project.