Richard H. Shultz

Andrea J. Dew

By focusing on four specific hotbeds of instability-Somalia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, and Iraq-Richard H. Shultz Jr. and Andrea J. Dew carefully analyze tribal culture and clan associations, examine why "traditional" or "tribal" warriors fight, identify how these groups recruit, and where they find sanctuary, and dissect the reasoning behind their strategy. Their new introduction evaluates recent developments in Iraq and Afghanistan, the growing prevalence of Shultz and Dew's conception of irregular warfare, and the Obama Defense Department's approach to fighting insurgents, terrorists, and militias. War in the post-Cold War era cannot be waged through traditional Western methods of combat, especially when friendly states and outside organizations like al-Qaeda serve as powerful allies to the enemy. Bridging two centuries and several continents, Shultz and Dew recommend how conventional militaries can defeat these irregular yet highly effective organizations.

The Warriors of Contemporary Combat

Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias

Roy Godson

Richard H. Shultz Jr

Active Measures in Soviet Strategy

Dezinformatsia

Robert L. Pfaltzgraff

Air University is proud to have joined the Air Staff and the International Security Studies Program of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in sponsoring the April 1991 conference on aerospace challenges and missions that produced this collection of essays. Written by a distinguished group of specialists from academia, the military, government, business, and the media, these essays examine American national security policy and Air Force issues from a variety of perspectives. Aside from their remarkable perceptiveness, the contributions of the authors are especially timely because they address the pivotal role of air power in the war with Iraq. The essays leave no doubt that the employment of both established and innovative methods of air combat in that crisis has important implications for the global-security environment of the future. In that sense, this book provides a foundation for evaluating the complex policy challenges that we face in the 1990s and into the next century."Charles G. BoydLieutenant General, United States Air ForceCommander, Air University

The Future of Air Power in the Aftermath of the Gulf War

W. Bradley Stock

Addresses the major sources & types of conflict for which various kinds of military forces, & especially Special Operations Forces (SOF), will be useful instruments of policy in the years ahead. The central concern is the relationship between SOF & U.S. military capabilities in the transformed global security system. Chapters covered: the strategic landscape; new threats & challenges (ethnonational violence, religious extremism, & state disintegration); regional security: the role of SOF (Latin America, Europe, the Middle East & Africa); SOF policy & doctrine; SOF roles & missions; & SOF capabilities & acquisitions (submarines, Mark V Craft).

Roles and Missions in the Aftermath of the Cold War

Special Operations Forces

Richard H. Shultz

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