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Another bloody century future warfare

Colin S. Gray has advised governments on both sides of the Atlantic about military affairs, and he looks into the future to provide some intriguing answers about the ways Western armed forces-which have traditionally been trained to fight conventional, not guerrilla, warfare-may have to evolve.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gray, Colin S. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, UK Phoenix 2005
Subjects:
Military art and science > Forecasting
World politics > 21st century
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Table of Contents:
  • pt.1. Basics
  • 1. Back to the Future
  • On war and warfare
  • Perils of prediction
  • Continuities and discontinuities
  • 2. Context, Context, Context
  • A war-prone future
  • The political driver
  • Society and culture
  • 3. Technology and War
  • Technophiles and technophobes
  • From RMA to transformation
  • pt.2. Warfare in the Twenty-First Century
  • 4. Grand Narratives of War, 1800-2100
  • The rise and fall of total war
  • The obsolescence of major interstate war
  • 'Old wars' and 'new wars', into the fourth generation
  • A new security agenda
  • Revolutions in military affairs (RMAs)
  • Technology
  • The expanding geography of war
  • Terrorism
  • Weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
  • The decline of war
  • History: our past is our future
  • 5. Regular Warfare
  • Varieties of warfare
  • Yesterday's problem?
  • Wars between states
  • Dilemmas of a defence planner
  • The shape of things to come
  • 6. Irregular Warfare and Terrorism
  • An old story meets post-modernity
  • An asymmetrical future
  • Terrorism as irregular warfare
  • Irregular regulars
  • 7. Old Rules for New Challenges
  • I. Weapons of Mass Destruction
  • Silver bullets and combined arms
  • Weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
  • Nuclear weapons
  • Biological weapons
  • Chemical weapons
  • A strategic perspective
  • 8. Old Rules for New Challenges
  • II. Warfare in Space and Cyberspace
  • Theory for new geography
  • Clausewitz in orbit
  • Cyberwarfare is still warfare
  • pt.3. Taming the Beast
  • 9. The Control of Wars
  • Is war useful?
  • Grand solutions, or ventures in futility
  • Haw are wars controlled? Treatments that work (sometimes)
  • Conclusions: A Warlike Future: The Long-running Story
  • Coping with ignorance
  • Themes
  • The argument

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