Future War In Cities: Rethinking a Liberal Dilemma

by Alice Hills

Overview

This book is the first full-length study of a key security issue confronting the west in the twenty-first century, urban military operations - as currently being undertaken by US and UK forces in Iraq. It relates military operations in cities to the wider study of conflict and security in an era of urbanisation, expeditionary warfare and new power.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135754402
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/27/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Alice Hills

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations, Abbreviations and Glossary, Preface, PART I: Rationalities, 1. Cities and Military Operations, 2. Thinking about Urban Operations, 3. Technology and War, PART II: Wasteland, 4. Policing, 5. Enforcement, 6. Warfighting, PART III: Reconstruction, 7. The Evolution of War, 8. Controlling Non-combatants, 9. The Intractable Nature of Urban Operations, 10. The Logic of Urban Operations, Afterword, Appendices, Select Bibliography, Index