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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/442985776 Title: The new western way of war : risk-transfer war and its crisis in Iraq Author: Martin Shaw Publisher: Cambridge ; Malden (MA) : Polity, 2007, cop. 2005. ISBN/ISSN: 9780745634111 0745634117 OCLC:442985776

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The new western way of war : risk-transfer war and its crisis in Iraq

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The new western way of war : risk-transfer war and its crisis in Iraq

Author:	Martin Shaw
Publisher:	Cambridge ; Malden (MA) : Polity, 2007, cop. 2005.
Edition/Format:	Book : English
Summary:	Illustrating the flaws in the US-led War on Terror, the author suggests that America has flouted the key rules that allowed Western states to fight earlier wars successfully, resulting in political failure and disaster in Iraq, as well as a loss of credibility for the very idea of Western warfare.
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Martin Shaw Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780745634111 0745634117
OCLC Number:	442985776
Description:	VII, 183 str. : tabele ; 24 cm.
Contents:	The new western way of war from Vietnam in Iraq -- Theories of the new western way of war -- The global surveillance mode of warfare -- Rules of risk-transfer war -- Iraq: risk economy of a war -- A way of war in crisis.
Responsibility:	Martin Shaw.
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Illustrating the flaws in the US-led War on Terror, the author suggests that America has flouted the key rules that allowed Western states to fight earlier wars successfully, resulting in political failure and disaster in Iraq, as well as a loss of credibility for the very idea of Western warfare.

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