The Changing Character of War

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Cover Contents List of Contributors Introduction: The Changing Character of War Part I: The Need for a Historical Perspective: What Has Changed? 1. The Changing Character of War 2. Had a Distinct Template for a ‘Western Way of War’ been Established before 1800? 3. Changes in War: The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 4. The Change from Within 5. ‘Killing is Easy’: The Atomic Bomb and the Temptation of Terror 6. The ‘New Wars’ Thesis Revisited 7. What is Really Changing? Change and Continuity in Global Terrorism Part II: The Purpose of War: Why Go to War? 8. Humanitarian Intervention 9. Democracy and War in the Strategic Thought of Giulio Douhet 10. Religion in the War on Terror 11. The Changing Character of Civil Wars, 1800–2009 12. Crime versus War Part III: The Changing Identities of Combatants: Who Fights? 13. War without the People 14. The Changing Character of Private Force 15. Who Fights?—A Comparative Demographic Depiction of Terrorists and Insurgents in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 16. Warlords 17. The European Union, Multilateralism, and the Use of Force 18. Robots at War: The New Battlefield Part IV: The Changing Identities of Non-combatants 19. The Civilian in Modern War 20. Killing Civilians 21. The Status and Protections of Prisoners of War and Detainees 22. The Challenge of the Child Soldier Part V: The Ideas which Enable us to Understand War 23. American Strategic Culture: Problems and Prospects 24. Morality and Law in War 25. Target-Selection Norms, Torture Norms, and Growing US Permissiveness 26. The Return of Realism? War and Changing Concepts of the Political 27. Strategy in the Twenty-First Century Conclusion: Absent War Studies? War, Knowledge, and Critique Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z