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This book examines the challenges that military forces will face in multinational intervention operations in the 21st century, and how these can be addressed within a rapidly changing global context.
List of contents
1. Trends and Scenarios in International Military Operations, Per M. Norheim-Martinsen 2. Five Parameters for Analysing International Military Operations, Tore Nyhamar 3. Future High Intensity Conflict: A Possible NATO Counter-Regime Operation in Africa, Sverre Diesen 4. Counterinsurgency Operations Revisited, Robert Egnell and David Ucko 5. Military Advising and Assistance Operations, Guro Lien 6. Special Operations Forces – A Weapon of Choice for Future Operations?, Iver Johansen 7. The Future of UN Peacekeeping Operations, Stian Kjeksrud 8. The New Urban Operations, Per M. Norheim-Martinsen 9. Transnational Operations, Tore Nyhamar 10. Cyber Operations, Siw Tynes Johnsen 11. Protection of civilians as a New Objective in Military Operations, Alexander William Beadle 12. Conclusions: New Missions, New Tasks, Tore Nyhamar and Per M. Norheim-Martinsen
About the author
Per M. Norheim-Martinsen is senior research fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies in Oslo, Norway and author of The European Union and Military Force (2013).
Tore Nyhamar is senior researcher at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) and has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Oslo.
Summary
This book examines the challenges that military forces will face in multinational intervention operations in the 21st century, and how these can be addressed within a rapidly changing global context.
