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. Klappentext 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 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, Alice (Leeds University Hills, Hills Alice
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.05.2004
• EAN: 9780714656021
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-5602-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, military history, Defence strategy, planning & research, Politics & government, Politics and government, Military and defence strategy, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science