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

By Martin Shaw

Book Overview

In this new work, Martin Shaw charts the development of a new warfare, after Vietnam, through the Falklands, the Gulf, Kosovo and Afghanistan, and argues that, in Iraq and the War on Terror, the USA has consistently flouted the key rules that enabled Western states to fight these earlier wars successfully.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745634117
• ISBN13: 9780745634111
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 8.5"