Impenetrable Fog of War: Reflections on Modern Warfare and Strategic Surprise

by Patrick M. Cronin

Overview

Current trends suggest that the fog of war continues to make strategy an opaque enterprise notwithstanding enormous U.S. investments in high-tech weapons, intelligence capabilities, and homeland defense. This edited volume includes essays originally presented at the IISS Global Strategic Review, which was held in Geneva on September 7-9, 2007.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313355813
Publisher:	Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/30/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	370 KB

About the Author

Patrick M. Cronin is Director of Studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and previously directed research at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has published widely on American foreign and defense policy, Asian-Pacific security affairs, and conflict prevention including Double Trouble: Iran and North Korea as Challenges to International Security (Praeger Security International, 2007).

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Fog of War   Patrick M. Cronin     1
The Spectrum of Conflict
Modern War   Thomas G. Mahnken     15
Managing Global Security and Risk   Jaap de Hoop Scheffer     25
New Forms of Violence   Keith Krause     31
Civil Resistance in Strategic Perspective   Peter Ackerman     47
Limited War and Counterinsurgency
Strategy and the Limitation of War   Hew Strachan     67
On Counterinsurgency   Martin van Creveld     85
Thoughts on the Character of Future Conflict   H. R. McMaster     97
Enduring Elements of Military Strategy   Antulio J. Echevarria II     107
The Need for Neoclassical Counterinsurgency Theory   Frank G. Hoffman     117
Postmodern Challenges for Modern Warriors   John Kiszely     129
Intelligence and Strategic Surprise
Intelligence, Policy, and the Failure to Forecast Risk   Hugh White     153
Tracking Asia's Black Swans   James Shinn     165
Reflections on Strategic Surprise   Chester A. Crocker     177
Index     187
About the Editor and Contributors     193

Editorial Reviews

Cronin (director, International Institute for Strategic Studies) has collected 13 fine essays…Each article is well written and researched. This collection deserves a spot in university and professional libraries…Recommended.” —Choice

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