8246 Lecture 7: Week 7 - The Changing Nature of War and Conflict
20 Jun 2018
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Week 7 - The Changing Nature of War and Conflict
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the Utility of Force "war no longer exists"
Industrial interstate was has given way to war among the people
Generational Warfare
1st Massed armies of the states
2nd Armies of the state with weapons of increased range and accuracy
3rd Firepower and manoeuvre to achieve speed and surprise
4th The lines between war and conflict, the state and non-state actors are blurred
Lind
The state has lost the monopoly of warfare
States fighting non-state actors
Asymmetric Operations
Relative strength of standing armies
The proliferation of weapons of all types beyond the nation state
The rise of international conflicts such as ethnic, religious and socio political conflict
Global scale
Pervasive and persistent
Impacts all aspects of society
Negate the advantages of technology to the nation state
Involve the active manipulation of pervasive media
Will be the norm
Eg, 911, war in Afghanistan
Hybrid War
Multiple types if warfare used simultaneously
Gates: "the categories of warfare are blurring"
6 major trends
The ends of war are changing to malleable objectives to deal with individuals and societies
that are not states
The media are taking a central role as they are taking the war to the people.
Conflicts tend to be timeless. Northern Ireland.
We have begun to fight so as not to lose rather than use all resources to win.
New uses are being found for old weapons.
The sides are mostly non state and we are arranged into coalitions or alliances
Success
War reflects the technological, political etc of our time
Success will be people who adapt
Other changes
Globalisation
Urbanisation
Consequence
Victory
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