Non-state Threats and Future Wars

• Part 1 Theory: the transformation of war revisited, Martin van Creveld; the new warrior class revisited, Ralph Peters. Part 2 Non-state threats and case studies: transnational organized crime - law enforcement as a global battlespace, Mark Galeotti; drug cartels, street gangs and warlords, John P. Sullivan and Robert J. Bunker; private military companies - mercenaries for the 21st century, Thomas K. Adams; non-state actors in Colombia - threats to the state and to the hemisphere, Max G. Wanwaring; Kashmir, Pakistan and the war by terror, Jasjit Singh. Part 3 Counter-opfor strategies: battlespace dynamics, information warfare to netwar, and bond-relationship targeting, Robert J. Bunker; cleansing polluted seas - non-state threats and the urban environment, Russell W. Glenn; non-lethal and hyper-lethal weaponry, John B. Alexander and Charles Heal; intelligence preparation for operations, Matt Begert and Dan Lindsay; networked force structure and C4I, John P. Sullivan. Part 4 Archives: the structure of war - early fourth epoch war research, T. Lindsay Moore; view from the wolves' den - the Chechens and urban operations, David P. Dilegge and Matthew Van Konynenburg.

'This book presents a blueprint for the military and law enforcement agencies of the US to innovate and prepare for the battles of World War IV. It is a comprehensive and intensely composed book on the subject of asymmetrical warfare as fought by non-state warriors.'David Bradford, Special Warfare'The authors recognize the new enemies of our nation, encourage innovative thinking in our institutions, demand that bureaucratic demarcations be overcome, and, above all, call for the creation (and growth) of smarter institutions ... this book should be required reading by those who serve in special warfare.'David Bradford, Special Warfare