Failed States and Casualty Phobia: Implications for Force Structure and Technology Choices

by Jeffrey Record

The emergence of failed states as the principal source of international political instability and the appearance of mounting casualty phobia among U.S. political and military elites have significant force structure and technology implications. Overseas, intra-state and often irregular warfare is displacing large-scale inter-state conventional combat. At home, there has arisen a new generation of political and military leadership that displays an unprecedented...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1288293194
• ISBN13: 9781288293193
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Biblioscholar
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.4" x 9.7"