Today s warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using high-tech weaponry. The editors of and contributors to the timely collection "Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World "show that this shift reflects changes in the technological, strategic, ideological, and ethical realms.The essays in this volume discuss: . the waning connection between citizenship and soldiering;. the shift toward more reconstructive than destructive activities by militaries;. the ethics of irregular or asymmetrical warfare;. the...

Today s warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using high-tech weaponry. The editors of and contributors to the timely collection "Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World "show that this shift reflects changes in the technological, strategic, ideological, and ethical realms.The essays in this volume discuss: . the waning connection between citizenship and soldiering;. the shift toward more reconstructive than destructive activities by militaries;. the ethics of irregular or asymmetrical warfare;. the...