Postmodern War

Name: Postmodern War
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The New Politics of Conflict

By: Chris Hables Gray

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Hardcover | 19 June 1997 | Edition Number 1

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326 Pages

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23.4 x 15.6 x 2.2

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Postmodern War poses an urgent challenge to the ways we conceptualize and actually wage war in our high technology age. Computerization and artificial intelligence have brought about a revolution in warfare spawning both increasingly powerful weapons and a rhetoric which disguises their apocalyptic potential in catch phrases like "smart weapons" and "bloodless combat". Postmodern War examines: contemporary practices of war, defining and critiquing trendy military doctrines hidden behind phrases like "Infowar" and "Cyberwar" the roles of those who manipulate high technology, those who are manipulated by it, and those who are increasingly merging with it the role of peace activists and socially responsible scientists in countering dangerous assumptions made by a postmodern military. Far from opposing technological change, however, Gray finds new hopes for peace in the twenty-first century. Provocative and far-reaching in its scope, the book argues that "postmodern war" has left us poised between the most dreadful and most utopian of alternatives: we may eradicate either the human race or war itself.

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