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Informationen zum Autor Anthony King is Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter. Since 2003 he has been conducting intensive research on the armed forces, observing military training, exercises and operations and has developed close relations with the armed forces at the highest levels. He has co-written parts of Britain's new counter-insurgency doctrine and is working for NATO's Regional Command South Headquarters in Kandahar. On the basis of this work, he has contributed to public debates about security and defence policy, appearing on the BBC and in the Guardian, Prospect and RUSI. Klappentext This book explores the transformation of Europe's military forces as they prepare for global intervention missions. Zusammenfassung Europe's armed forces have been re-organising themselves to prepare for 'new wars' around the world. Examining operational headquarters and rapid reaction brigades! this book explores how Europe's forces are concentrating themselves into smaller but more capable professional forces which are co-operating ever more closely with each other across national borders. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Strategic Context: 1. Towards a sociology of military transformation; 2. Europe's new military; 3. The capacity for autonomous action?; Part II. Operational Transformation: 4. The operational network; 5. The operational renaissance; 6. Operational art; Part III. Tactical Transformation: 7. The empowered brigade; 8. Elitism; 9. Cohesion; 10. Co-ordination; 11. The future of Europe's armed forces.
