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Understanding Modern Warfare has established itself as the leading introduction to the issues, ideas, concepts and context necessary to understand the theory and conduct of warfare in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is an invaluable text for military professionals and students of military history. Key features include: incisive coverage of the debates surrounding contemporary and future warfare; accessible, yet sophisticated, discussion across the land, sea, and air environments; and coverage of contemporary topics such as drones, cyber warfare, and hybrid warfare.

The book makes extensive use of text boxes to explain key concepts and to reference extended examples, and it includes annotated guides to further reading and key questions to promote the reader's further thinking. This second edition has been fully revised and updated to take into account new debates and recent events in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine, and it has also been restructured to further improve its usefulness as a teaching tool.

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Understanding Modern Warfare har etablerat sig som den ledande introduktionen till de frågor, idéer, koncept och sammanhang som krävs för att förstå krigföringens teori och utförande under 1900- och 2000-talen. Det är en ovärderlig text för militära yrkesverksamma och studenter i militärhistoria. Viktiga egenskaper inkluderar: skarp täckning av debatterna kring samtida och framtida krigföring; tillgänglig, men ändå sofistikerad, diskussion över land-, sjö- och luftmiljöer; och täckning av aktuella ämnen som drönare, cyberkrigföring och hybridkrigföring.

Boken använder sig i stor utsträckning av textrutor för att förklara nyckelbegrepp och hänvisa till utökade exempel, och den innehåller kommenterade guider till vidare läsning och nyckelfrågor för att främja läsarens vidare tänkande. Denna andra upplaga har reviderats och uppdaterats för att ta hänsyn till nya debatter och de senaste händelserna i Syrien, Irak och Ukraina, och den har också strukturerats om för att ytterligare förbättra dess användbarhet som ett undervisningsverktyg.

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James D. Kiras shows how a number of different special operations, in conjunction with more conventional military actions, achieve and sustain strategic effect(s) over time. In particular, he argues that the root of effective special operations lies in understanding the relationship existing between moral and material attrition at the strategic level. He also presents a theoretical framework for understanding how special operations achieve strategic effects using a unique synthesis of strategic theory and case studies.

This study shows how the key to understanding how special operations reside in the concept of strategic attrition and in the moral and material nature of strategy. It also highlights major figures such as Carl von Clausewitz, Hans Delbrück, and Mao Zedong, who understood these complexities and were experts in eroding an enemy’s will to fight. These and other examples provide a superb explanation of the complexities of modern strategy and the place of special operations in a war of attrition

James D Kiras

Kurslitteratur av James D Kiras