The evolution of war
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- CNN War
- NewsRoom@newsroom.co.nz, 12 February 1998. Concerning a
paper by US Army War College Research Fellow Lt.Col. Frank
J. Stech. The Gulf War gave rise to a new form of war called
“CNN war”. Satellite television alters how
governments deal with each other. Political events defined
in terms of the video clips and sound bites of TV news
images. Political groups “capture” images that
serve their purposes and reuse them to create new events to
be televised.
- High-Tech Warfare Is a Losing
Proposition
- By Gary Chapman, Los Angeles Times, 26 April
1999. The current war in the Balkans between NATO forces and
Yugoslavia is delivering new lessons about whether wars are
won by soldiers dying for a cause or by machines that deliver
death and destruction to the enemy. NATO's application of
technology there may have been militarily counterproductive. The
revolution in weaponry and in our society at large brought
about by new information technologies.
- Inequality Primary Cause of Wars, says
Annan
- By Thalif Deen, IPS, 9 September 1999. Countries affected
by war typically also suffer from inequal access to power
among domestic social groups or economic decline. Poverty
itself shown not be cause of war. Recent horrors of identity
politics. Prevention strategies in face of natural
disastors, particularly address inequity. While progress in
negotiated settlement, a more recent countervailing increase
in wars.
- Modern war kills nine civilians for every
soldier
- By Mark Lattimer, Independent (London), 1
January 2000. While the 20th century was unparalleled in the
scale of its human misery created by other humans, this
masks the huge change that has taken place in the pattern of
violence: the systematic use of torture by the state; nine
military casualties for every civilian death in war,
primarily children. In this century growing civil conflict
as the nation state starts to fragment or implode.
- US Weapons Secrets Exposed
- By Julian Borger, Guardian, 29 October
2002. The US is developing a new generation of weapons that
undermine international treaties on biological and chemical
warfare. The Pentagon, with British military help, is
working on “non-lethal&$8221; weapons [to target the
working class] similar to the narcotic gas used by Russian
forces to end last week's siege in Moscow, which killed
hostages.