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New Western Way of War: Risk Transfer and Its Crisis in Iraq

Paperback • 2005 • English

New Western Way of War: Risk Transfer and Its Crisis in Iraq

By Martin Shaw

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About the book

In this seminal new work, Martin Shaw, a leading expert on the sociology of war, argues that the new Western way of war is in crisis. He charts the development of a new warfare, after Vietnam, through the Falklands, the Gulf, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He argues that in the Iraq (mis)adventure (of which he provides a detailed analysis) and the War on Terror, the US has consistently flouted the key rules that enabled Western states to fight these earlier wars successfully. The results are not only p...Show more

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ISBN

9780745634111

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

New Western Way of War: Risk Transfer and Its Crisis in Iraq

Format

Paperback

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