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Title: Asymmetrical Warfare: Today's Challenge to US Military Power by Roger W. Barnett ISBN: 1-57488-563-4 Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: 27 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Re Unfettered Conventional Violence, NOT Asymmetric Warfare
Comment:
There is nothing objectionable about this thoughtful and well-documented book except its title. It is simply not about "asymmetric warfare" as Ralph Peters, G.I. Wilson, Bill Lind or any of a dozen other authors including myself might speak. This book provides a reasoned and respectable argument against limiting in any way the degree to which strategic nuclear and conventional forces might be utilized. The author systematically discusses operational, legal, and moral constraints that, if permitted to stand, could in effect give a challenger relying on asymmetric means something of an advantage.
The book does not, however, consider for a moment that our existing heavy metal military is anything other than the ideal blunt instrument with which to wreak our will. It does not discuss asymmetric challenges as a range, it does not evaluate the effectiveness or ineffectiveness (whether operationally, or in terms of cost and sustainability) of varying alternatives for dealing with asymmetric challenges (e.g. soft power including covert action), and therefore the book should more aptly have been titled "The Curtis Lemay Handbook for Squishing Mosquitoes with Multiple Nuclear Bombs" or even better, "Don Rumsfeld's Press Briefing on Why B-2 Bombers Were Called in Against 18 Taliban Guerrillas in Afghanistan."
Asymmetric warfare, this is not...
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Title: The Lessons of Afghanistan: War Fighting, Intelligence, and Force Transformation (Significant Issues Series, Vol 24, No. 4) by Anthony H. Cordesman ISBN: 089206417X Publisher: Center for Strategic and International Studies Pub. Date: 06 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century by Bruce D. Berkowitz ISBN: 0743212495 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 24 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Stray Voltage: War in the Information Age by Wayne M. Hall ISBN: 1591143500 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: Yellow Smoke: The Future of Land Warfare for America's Military (Role of American Military Power) by Robert H. Scales ISBN: 074251773X Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Terrorism, Afghanistan, and America's New Way of War by Norman Friedman ISBN: 1591142903 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: 30 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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