1st Edition

Postmodern War The New Politics of Conflict

By Chris Hables Gray Copyright 1997
288 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Postmodern War poses an urgent challenge to the ways we conceptualize and actually wage war in our high technology age. Computerization and artificial intelligence have brought about a revolution in warfare spawning both increasingly powerful weapons and a rhetoric which disguises their apocalyptic potential in catch phrases like smart weapons and bloodless combat. Postmodern War examines: *... Read more
Introduction: From Sarajevo to Sarajevo, the USS Oklahoma to Oklahoma City; 1: The Present; 1: Real Cyberwar; 2: Computers at War: Kuwait 1991; 3: Military Computerdom; 4: The Uses of Science; 2: The Past; 5: The Art of War; 6: Modern War; 7: The Emergence of Postmodern War: World War II; 8: Postmodern Wars Imaginary and Real: World War III and Vietnam; 9: The Systems of Postmodern War; 3: The Future; 10: The Cyborg Soldier: Future/Present; 11: Future War: U.S. Military Plans for the Millennium; 12: Futue Peace: The Remaking of Scientists and Soldiers; 13: War and Peace 2000

Biography

Chris Hables Gray