The Risk Society at War : Terror, Technology and Strategy in the Twenty-First Century

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
1 Introduction......Page 11
2 Strategy, strategic studies and risk......Page 22
Stratos and modernity......Page 24
Clausewitz......Page 27
The twentieth century and strategic studies......Page 30
The end of the Cold War and strategic studies......Page 37
Risk strategies......Page 43
Management......Page 45
The presence of the future......Page 47
The boomerang effect......Page 49
Conclusions......Page 51
3 Technology: the revolution in military affairs......Page 53
Managing the revolution......Page 55
Strategic management......Page 62
A’new kind of strategy......Page 73
The presence of the future......Page 75
It\'s about the future: capability-based defence planning......Page 76
Peers?......Page 79
Fighting the future......Page 82
The boomerang effect......Page 83
The RMA calculus of war......Page 84
Risk strategies: who dares wins......Page 89
Conclusions......Page 96
4 Doctrines: precautionary principles and anticipatory defence......Page 101
Management......Page 105
From predictability to unpredictability......Page 106
The risks of globalisation......Page 109
How to manage an unpredictable environment......Page 116
The presence of the future......Page 124
Iraq, anticipatory defence and judging risks......Page 126
Precautionary principles......Page 133
The boomerang effect......Page 139
Living with terrorism......Page 141
Pre-emption makes it worse......Page 143
Conclusions......Page 146
5 Agents: the UN approach and the terrorist approach to warfare......Page 151
Management......Page 154
Bureaucracy I: outlawing war......Page 156
Bureaucracy II: predictability......Page 160
Bureaucracy III: professionalism......Page 163
The continuation of law by other means......Page 167
The presence of the future......Page 168
Protean man......Page 169
Who are you and who is your enemy?......Page 171
New terrorists, new rationalities......Page 173
Irrational......Page 174
A different rationality......Page 176
Evil-doers......Page 178
The risks of defining enemies......Page 181
Whom do you expect to fight?......Page 183
The boomerang effect......Page 184
Bureaucracy I: the professionals......Page 185
Bureaucracy II: predictability......Page 192
Bureaucracy III: rules......Page 193
Non-UN warfare......Page 196
Conclusions......Page 197
6 Conclusions......Page 201
Bibliography......Page 217
Index......Page 233