The Changing Character of War

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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
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