War as risk management
Subtitle: strategy and conflict in an age of globalised risks
By: Yee-Kuang Heng.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Security, International; Premptive attack (Military strategy); War -- Moral and ethical aspects; Risk management; War on Terrorism, 2001-; Globalization; Europe -- Military policy; United States -- Military policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The re-configuring of war; title: The dawn of a risk age : from cold warriors to risk managers; title: Forging the link : risk management goes to war; title: The Kosovo campaign : war as a risk management exercise; title: The Afghan campaign and the War on Terrorism : risk management vindicated?; title: War on Iraq : textbook risk management or flawed strategy; title: The rise and fall of war as risk management?