Hills Future War In Cities

Rethinking a Liberal Dilemma
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-75440-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

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 conflicts; its central process is urban operations, but its context is the changing security environment, whose features are revealed in conflicts within cities.

Within a framework analysing conventional operations, the author identifies the contextual factors that affect operations in urban environments. She advances an explanation as to why questions of theoretical understanding and policy response are as important as tactical concerns, and why cities will represent a politically significant area in the future. In doing so, Alice Hills demonstrates that urban operations present a unique set of political and moral challenges to both policy-makers and military commanders. Future War in Cities offers a rethinking of the liberal dilemma associated with the use of force across the spectrum of conflict, from terrorist attacks to major conventional operations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hills, Alice

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Rationalities 1. Cities and Military Operations 2. Thinking About Urban Operations 3. Technology and War
Part 2: Wasteland 4. Policing 5. Enforcement 6. Warfighting Part 3: Reconstruction 7. The Evolution of War 8. Controlling Non-Combatants 9. The Intractable Nature of Urban Operations 10. The Logic of Urban Operations

Über Autor(innen)

Alice Hills is a lecturer at the UK Joint Services Commission and Staff College, Shrivenham. She was awarded a PhD in War Studies by King's College London in 1975. She is author of Policing Africa: Internal Security and the Limits of Liberalization (2000) and Britain and the Occupation of Austria, 1943-45 (2000), as well as numerous journal articles.