Modern War and the Utility of Force
This book investigates the use and utility of military force in modern war.
After the Cold War, Western armed forces have increasingly been called upon to intervene in internal conflicts in the former Third World. These forces have had to carry out missions that they traditionally have not been trained and equipped for, in environments that they often have not been prepared for. A number of these new types of operations in allegedly new wars stand out, such as peace-enforcement, state-building, counter-insurgency, humanitarian aid, and not the least, counter-terrorism. The success rate of these missions has, however, been mixed, providing fuel for an increasingly loud debate on the utility of force in modern war. This edited volume poses as its central question: what is in fact the utility of force? Is force useful for anything other than a complete conventional defeat of a regular opponent who is confronted in the open field?
This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, war and conflict studies, counter-insurgency, security studies and IR.
Jan Angstrom is a researcher at the Swedish National Defence College.
Isabelle Duyvesteyn is Associate Professor at the Department of History of International Relations, Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
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Leaders in War
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Modern War and the Utility of Force
Challenges, methods and strategy
Edited by Jan Angstrom and Isabelle Duyvesteyn