Understanding Land Warfare, Second Edition

This textbook provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare. The second edition has been updated and revised, and includes new chapters on non-western perspectives and hybrid warfare. "This textbook provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare. The second edition has been updated and revised, and includes new chapters on non-western perspectives and hybrid warfare. Drawing on a range of case studies spanning the First World War through to contemporary conflicts in Syria, Ukraine, and Nagorno-Karabakh, the book explores what is unique about the land domain and how this has shaped the theory and practice of military operations conducted upon it. It also looks at land warfare across the spectrum of its conduct, including conventional campaigning, counterinsurgency, and peace support and stabilisation operations. Key themes and debates identified and analysed include: the tensions between change and continuity; the role of technology in land warfare; the relevance of culture and context; the difficulties in translating theory into effective military practice; in-depth discussions on issues of immediate contemporary significance, including hybrid warfare, emerging military technologies, and the military reform processes of the US, Russian, and Chinese land forces. This book will be essential reading for military practitioners and for students of land warfare, military history, war studies and strategic studies"-- Provided by publisher This textbook provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare. The second edition has been updated and revised, and includes new chapters on non-western perspectives and hybrid warfare. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 List of illustrations 7 Preface to the second edition 10 Glossary 11 Introduction 18 PART I: The development of land warfare 28 1. Land warfare in theory 30 2. The development of modern land warfare 62 3. Modern tactics 76 4. Modern operational art and the operational level of war 98 5. Land warfare: Context and variation 131 PART II: What is victory? 150 6. Counterinsurgency operationsIn 152 7. Peace and stability operations 185 8. Hybrid warfare 210 PART III: The future 230 9. Future land warfare 232 10. The paradigm army 256 11. Russia and China 283 Conclusion 307 Select bibliography 311 Index 315 military;,strategy;,hybrid,warfare;,non-western,countries;,land,warfare military,strategy,hybrid warfare,non-western countries,land warfare