The Impenetrable Fog of War: Reflections on Modern Warfare and Strategic Surprise
by Cronin, Patrick M.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-07-30
Publisher(s): Greenwood Pub Group
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Summary
Current trends suggest that the fog of war continues to make strategy an opaque enterprise notwithstanding enormous U.S. investments in high-tech weapons, intelligence capabilities, and homeland defense. This edited volume includes essays originally presented at the IISS Global Strategic Review, which was held in Geneva on September 7-9, 2007.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: The Fog of War | p. 1 |
| The Spectrum of Conflict | |
| Modern War | p. 15 |
| Managing Global Security and Risk | p. 25 |
| New Forms of Violence | p. 31 |
| Civil Resistance in Strategic Perspective | p. 47 |
| Limited War and Counterinsurgency | |
| Strategy and the Limitation of War | p. 67 |
| On Counterinsurgency | p. 85 |
| Thoughts on the Character of Future Conflict | p. 97 |
| Enduring Elements of Military Strategy | p. 107 |
| The Need for Neoclassical Counterinsurgency Theory | p. 117 |
| Postmodern Challenges for Modern Warriors | p. 129 |
| Intelligence and Strategic Surprise | |
| Intelligence, Policy, and the Failure to Forecast Risk | p. 153 |
| Tracking Asia's Black Swans | p. 165 |
| Reflections on Strategic Surprise | p. 177 |
| Index | p. 187 |
| About the Editor and Contributors | p. 193 |
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