Full Description
For the United States, asymmetric warfare has emerged as the "new normal." The large-scale conventional campaigns that typified U.S. military engagements for much of the 20th Century are increasingly things of the past. Instead, the quarter-century since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the U.S.-Soviet balance of power has seen irregular war truly come of age, with more and more hostile nations pursuing asymmetric means in order to secure the strategic advantage vis-à-vis the United States. In this volume, a group of leading national security practitioners and subject matter experts comes together to analyze the asymmetric strategies being pursued today by America's main state-based adversaries—Russia, China, Iran and North Korea—and to explore how U.S. policymakers can respond more effectively to them.
Contents
Introduction: Thinking about Asymmetry, by Ilan Berman
Chapter 1: The Chinese Way of Asymmetric War, by Larry M. Wortzel
Chapter 2: Russia's Asymmetric Strategy for Contemporary and Future War, by Stephen Blank
Chapter 3: The Strategies and Methods of Iranian Asymmetric War, by Ladan Yazdian
Chapter 4: The Asymmetric Strategies of the DPRK, by Daniel A. Pinkston
Conclusion: Adapting to Asymmetry, by Ilan Berman
List of Contributors
