Future War in Cities - Rethinking a Liberal Dilemma

Informationen zum Autor Alice Hills is a lecturer at the UK Joint Services Commission and Staff College, Shrivenham. She was awarded a PhD in War Studies by King's College London in 1975. She is author of Policing Africa: Internal Security and the Limits of Liberalization (2000) and Britain and the Occupation of Austria, 1943-45 (2000), as well as numerous journal articles. Zusammenfassung This book is the first full-length study of a key security issue confronting the West in the 21st century: urban military operations, as undertaken by US and UK forces in Iraq. It relates operations in cities to the wider study of conflict and Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Rationalities 1. Cities and Military Operations 2. Thinking About Urban Operations 3. Technology and War Part 2: Wasteland 4. Policing 5. Enforcement 6. Warfighting Part 3: Reconstruction 7. The Evolution of War 8. Controlling Non-Combatants 9. The Intractable Nature of Urban Operations 10. The Logic of Urban Operations

Product details

• Authors: Alice Hills, Hills Alice
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2004
• EAN: 9780714684949
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-8494-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), HISTORY / Military / Strategy, Military tactics, Military and defence strategy