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Summary of the current debate about the nature of modern conflict, which analysts have been struggling to define since the end of the Cold War

Since the end of the Cold War, scholars, military historians and analysts have struggled to agree a workable definition of contemporary warfare with reference to the conflicts that have erupted since 1989, whether in the former Yugoslavia, Iraq or Afghanistan, to name only a few.
Among the many attempts to hit the right conceptual note are asymmetrical war, 'Fourth Generation War' and, perhaps the most influential of all, 'New Wars'.
In addition to these attempts to define war, the West's military establishments, with the Pentagon in the vanguard, have worked hard to map out new...