Emile Simpson: War From The Ground Up

Cover: 9781849049481 | War From The Ground Up | Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics

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As a British infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles Emile Simpson completed three tours of Southern Afghanistan. Drawing on that experience, and on a range of little-known case studies ranging from Nepal to Borneo, War From The Ground Up offers a distinctive perspective on contemporary armed conflict: while most accounts of war look down at the battlefield from an academic perspective, or across it as a personal narrative, the author looks up from the battlefield to consider the concepts that put him there, and how they played out on the ground. Simpson argues that in the Afghan conflict, and in contemporary conflicts more generally, liberal powers and their armed forces have blurred the line between military and political activity. More broadly, they have challenged the distinction between war and peace. He contends that this loss of clarity is more a response to the conditions of combat in the early twenty-first century, particularly that of globalisation, than a deliberate choice. The issue is thus not whether the West should engage in such practices, but how to manage, gain advantage from, and mitigate the risks of this evolution in warfare. War From The Ground Up draws heavily on personal anecdotes from the frontline, related to historical context and strategic thought, to offer a re-evaluation of the concept of war in modern conflict.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Conflict Classics
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781849049481
ISBN-10:	1849049483
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Simpson, Emile
Hersteller:	C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Conflict Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 136 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Emile Simpson
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.02.2018
Gewicht:	0,399 kg