Full Description
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.
Contents
1. The Fog of War Patrick M. Cronin 2. Modern War Thomas G. Mahnken 3. Managing Global Security and Risk Jaap de Hoop Scheffer 4. New Forms of Violence Keith Krause 5. Civil Resistance in Strategic Perspective Peter Ackerman 6. Strategy and the Limitation of War Hew Strachan 7. On Counterinsurgency Martin van Creveld 8. Thoughts on the Character of Future Conflict H.R. McMaster 9. Enduring Elements of Military Strategy Antulio J. Echevarria II 10. The Need for Neo-Classical Counterinsurgency Theory Frank G. Hoffman 11. Post-Modern Challenges for Modern Warriors John Kiszely 12. Intelligence, Policy and the Failure to Forecast Risk Hugh White 13. Tracking Asias Black Swans James Shinn 14. Reflections on Strategic Surprise Chester A. Crocker 15. War and Intelligence in the 21st Century Patrick M. Cronin The Authors
