Children at war
By: P.W. Singer.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Child soldiers -- History -- 20th century; Child soldiers -- History -- 21st century
Description: "Children at War is the first comprehensive book to examing the growing and global use of children as soldiers." "P. W. Singer, an internationally recognized expert in twenty-first-century warfare, explores how a new strategy of war, utilized by armies and warlords alike, has targeted children, seeking to turn them into soldiers and terrorists." "Interweaving the voices of child soldiers throughout the book, Singer looks at the ways these children are recruited, abducted, trained, and finally sent off to fight in war-torn hot spots, from Colombia and the Sudan to Kashmir and Sierra Leone. He writes about children who have been indoctrinated to fight U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan; of Iraqi boys between the ages of ten and fifteen who had been trained in military arms and tractics to become Saddam Hussein's Ashbal Saddam (Lion Cubs); of young refugees from Pakistani madrassahs who were recruited to help bring the Taliban to power in the Afghan civil war." "Finally, Singer makes clear how the U.S. government and the international community must face this new reality of modern warfare, how those who benefit from the recruitment of children as soldiers must be held accountable, how Western militaries must be prepared to face children in battle, and how rehabilitation programs can undo this horrific phenomenon and turn child soldiers back into children."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: Children and war; title: It's a small world after all: child soldiers around the globe; title: The underlying causes; title: How children are recruited into war; title: Turning a child into a soldier; title: The implications of children of the battlefield; title: The new children of terror; title: Preventing child soldiers; title: Fighting children; title: Turning a soldier back into a child; title: Looking ahead.