The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and Its Crisis in Iraq

by Martin Shaw

Book Overview

In this seminal new work, Martin Shaw, a leading expert on thesociology of war, argues that the new Western way of war is incrisis. He charts the development of a new warfare, after Vietnam, through the Falklands, the Gulf, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He arguesthat in the Iraq (mis)adventure (of which he provides a detailedanalysis) and the War on Terror, the US has consistently floutedthe key rules that enabled Western states to fight these earlierwars...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745634109
• ISBN13: 9780745634104
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"