{"product_id":"global-insurgency-and-the-future-aaron-karp-9780415413572","title":"Global Insurgency and the Future of Armed Conflict: Debating Fourth-Generation Warfare","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume covers a timely debate in contemporary security studies: can armed forces adjust to the rising challenge of insurgency and terrorism, the greatest transformation in warfare since the birth of the international system? Containing essays by leading international security scholars and military professionals, it explores the Fourth-Generation Warfare thesis and its implications for security planning in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo longer confined to the fringes of armed conflict, guerrilla warfare and terrorism increasingly dominate world-wide military planning. For the first time since the Vietnam War ended, the problems of insurgency have leapt to the top of the international security agenda and virtually all countries are struggling to protect themselves against terrorist threats. Coalition forces in Afghanistan and Iraq are bogged down by an insurgency, and are being forced to rely on old warfare tactics rather than modern technologies to destroy their adversaries. These theorists argue that irregular warfare--insurgencies and terrorism--has evolved over time and become progressively more sophisticated and difficult to defeat as it is not centred on high technology and state of the art weaponry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobal Insurgency and the Future of Armed Conflict\u003c\/em\u003e will be of interest to students of international security, strategic studies and terrorism studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Regina Karp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415413575\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415413572\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.52w x 0.89d","brand":"Regina Karp","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44966097322239,"sku":"9780415413572","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d33bbcb8-eaaa-44e6-8843-6b8786ae3987.jpg?v=1711158850","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/global-insurgency-and-the-future-aaron-karp-9780415413572","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}