1st Edition

Dragonwars Armed Struggle and the Conventions of Modern War

Edited By J. Bowyer Bell Copyright 1999
474 Pages
by Routledge

474 Pages
by Routledge

455 Pages
by Routledge

For centuries international order has been troubled by small wars, insurrections, and revolts--low intensity conflicts. With the implosion of the Soviet empire many thought such violence could be eradicated through the growth of democracy, open societies, and increased productivity and education. Instead the world remains filled with turmoil, pogroms, famine, civil war, rebellion, and terror,... Read more
I: Introduction to Dragonwars; 1: The Revolutionary Ecosystem and the Armed Struggle; 2: Dragonworld: Lebanon; II: The Dynamics of the Underground; 3: The Dragonworlds: Revolutionary Ecosystems; 4: The Design and Determinants of the Dragonworld; 5: The Dynamics of the Armed Struggle; 6: Responses to the Armed Struggle; III: America and the Dragonwars; 7: America and the Conventions of War; 8: Unconventional War, the Cold War, and the American Way of War: Greece to Vietnam, 1945-1966; 9: Vietnam and the American Way of War, 1967-1972; 10: Conflict on the Margins of the Cold War; 11: The Postmodern World and Dragonwars: Into the Next Century; Epilogue; Sources

Biography

J. Bowyer Bell