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| | All Possible Wars? Towards a Consensus View of the Future Security Environment, 2001-2025 |
| | Sam Tangredi presents a set of assumptions and possible scenarios about the future security environment for the next 25 years. National Defense University, USA. McNair Paper No. 63, November 2000.
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| | Beyond vom Kriege: The Character and Conduct of Modern War |
| | An effort to understand war and the role of armed forces in modern societies, based on the last years experiences and the classic theories. Author: R.D.Hooker Jr., Parameters, US Army War College Quarterly , Summer 2005. [PDF]
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| | Bury Cold War Mindset: Fourth Generation Warfare Rewrites Military Strategy |
| | Article by Jack Shanahan, Chet Richards and Franklin Spinney, 2002. Describes fourth-generation warfare that pits nations against non-national organizations or networks that include not only fundamentalist extremists, but also ethnic factions, mafias and narcotics traffickers.
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| | The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation |
| | An article that intends to anticipate what the future conflicts will be like. Introduces the concept of fourth generation war. By William S. Lind, Keith Nightengale, John F. Schmitt, Joseph W. Sutton and Gary I. Wilson, published in Marine Corps Gazette, October 1989.
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| | Changing the Paradigm of the War |
| | A paper about the nature of fourth generation warfare and the form it may take in Middle East. By Steve Daskal, November 2003.
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| | Chemical and Biological Terrorism in the 21st Century |
| | The zigzag evolution of chemical and biological weapons in the 20th century give causes for both optimism and pessimism in the course it will take in the 21st, by Greg Goebel, Jun 2003.
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| | The Dangers of Warfare in a Media Age |
| | The author alerts about the dangers of the contemporary media age, in which events across the world are instantly brought before vast international audiences, for example, that tomorrow’s wars could be at risk of being overly influenced by the views of spectator audiences, at the expense of the considerations that ought to guide policy-makers, such as the assessment of the national interest. By Roger Howard, April 2003.
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| | Evolution of War |
| | A slide presentation showing the past, present and future of the war.
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| | Fighting in the Gray Zone. A Strategy to Close the Preemption Gap. |
| | The US 2002 National Security Strategy (NSS) identified the proliferation, privatization, and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction by terrorist groups and rogue states as the critical nontraditional threat of the 21st century. Published in September 2004, US Army War College. Authored by Joanne M. Fish, Samuel F. McCraw and Christopher J. Reddish.
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| | Fourth Generation Warfare |
| | Slide show that summarizes the key aspects of asymmetric conflicts, by Greg Wilcox and G.I. Wilson for Boyd Comference, 2002. [PDF]
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