The Conduct of War in the 21st Century

Kinetic, Connected and Synthetic
Herausgegeben:Johnson, Rob; Kitzen, Martijn; Sweijs, Tim

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the key dimensions of 21st century war, and shows that orthodox thinking about war, particularly what it is and how it is fought, needs to be updated.

Accelerating societal, economic, political and technological change affects how we prepare, equip and organise for war, as well as how we conduct war - both in its low-tech and high-tech forms, and whether it is with high intensity or low intensity. The volume examines changes in warfare by investigating the key features of the conduct of war during the first decades of the 21st century. Conceptually centred around the terms 'kinetic', 'connected' and 'synthetic', the analysis delves into a wide range of topics. The contributions discuss hybrid warfare, cyber and influence activities, machine learning and artificial intelligence, the use of armed drones and air power, the implications of the counterinsurgency experiences in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, as well as the consequences for law(fare) and decision making.

This work will be of much interest to students of military and strategic studies, security studies and International Relations.

Chapters 1, 2, 5, and 19 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Advances in Defence Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9780367515287
• ISBN-10: 0367515288
• Artikelnr.: 67441476

Autorenporträt

Rob Johnson is the Director of the Changing Character of War Research Centre at the University of Oxford, UK. Martijn Kitzen is Associate Professor at the Netherlands Defence Academy, Breda. Tim Sweijs is the Director of Research at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and a Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Defence Academy.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Frank Hoffman Part I: Introduction: The Conduct of War in the 21st
Century 1. Introduction, Rob Johnson, Tim Sweijs and Martijn Kitzen 2.
Strategic Underperformance: The West and Three Decades of War, Frans Osinga
Part II: New Strategies in the Conduct of Contemporary Warfare 3. Hybrid
Warfare and Counter-Coercion, Rob Johnson 4. Strategies for Communicating
Information and Disinformation in War: Managing and Exploiting Uncertainty
in Social Media, Filippo Tansini and Yakov Ben Haim 5. Control from the
Ground Up: Embedding Influence Activities in the Conduct of War, Rick
Breekveldt and Martijn Kitzen Part III: New Technologies and their Impact
on Warfare 6. Humans and Hardware: An Exploration of Blended Tactical
Workflows using John Boyd's OODA Loop, Dave Blair, Joseph O. Chapa, Scott
Cuomo and Jules Hurst 7. Cyber Countermeasures for Democracies at War,
Nori Katagiri Part IV: War from Above 8. Air Power 2010-2020: from Helmand
to Hypersonics, Johnny Stringer 9. Armed Drones, Technological Momentum,
and the Character of War, Johannes G. Postma Part V: War from the Ground Up
10. The Challenge of Territory-governing Insurgencies on War and Peace
Strategies, Paula Cristina Roque 11. Security Force Assistance as a
Preferred Form of 21st Century Warfare: The Unconventional Becomes the
Conventional, Jahara Matisek and Ivor Wiltenberg 12. Learning and
Forgetting Counterinsurgency, Martijn van der Vorm Part VI: Law and War
13. Fighting A War Without Violence: The Rules of International
Humanitarian Law for Military Operations Below the Threshold of 'Attack',
Bart van der Bosch 14. Cyber Operations and Targeting Rules, Raïssa van den
Essen 15. Contemporary Urban Warfare: Does International Humanitarian Law
offer Solutions?, Jeroen van den Boogaard 16. The Conduct of Lawfare: The
Case of the Houthi Insurgency in the Yemeni Civil, Sandra de Jongh and
Martijn Kitzen Part VII: Decision Making and War 17. Command in the
Operational Dimension: Challenges of the Information Age, Rob Johnson 18.
The Emotions of Adversarial Interaction, Lukas Milevski Part VIII:
Conclusion: Lessons for Thinking About War 19. Conclusion: Assessing Change
and Continuity in the Character of War, Tim Sweijs, Rob Johnson and Martijn
Kitzen