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Naval War College Review, Summer, 2003 by Michael Evans
(11.) David Halberstam, War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals (London: Bloomsbury, 2001), esp. chaps. 39-43. The Kosovo conflict is well analyzed in Bacevich and Cohen, eds., War over Kosovo.
(12.) See Lloyd J. Matthews [Col., USA], ed., Challenging the United States Symmetrically and Asymmetrically: Can America Be Defeated? (Carlisle Barracks, Penna.: U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, July 1998), and Steven Metz and Douglas V. Johnson II, Asymmetry and U.S. Military Strategy: Definition, Background, and Strategic Concepts (Carlisle Barracks, Penna.: U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, January 2001).
(13.) For a discussion see Coker, chap. 7.
(14.) Pierre Hassner, "Beyond War and Totalitarianism: The New Dynamics of Violence," in Prins and Tromp, eds., p. 205.
(15.) See Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong? The Clash between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002).
(16.) See Avi Kober, "Low-Intensity Conflicts: Why the Gap between Theory and Practise?" Defense & Security Analysis 18, no. 1 (March 2002), pp. 15-38, and Harkavy and Neuman, esp. chap. 5. See also Max G. Manwaring, Internal Wars: Rethinking Problems and Responses (Carlisle Barracks, Penna.: U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, September 2001), pp. 25-34.
(17.) John Mueller, Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War (New York: Basic Books, 1989).
(18.) Martin van Creveld, The Transformation of War (New York: Free Press, 1991).
(19.) Alvin and Heidi Toffler, War and Anti-War: Survival at the Dawn of the 21st Century (Boston: Little, Brown, 1993).
(20.) Robert D. Kaplan, "The Coming Anarchy," Atlantic Journal, February 1994, and The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Random House, 1996); Philip Cerny, "Neomedievalism, Civil War and the New Security Dilemma: Globalisation as Durable Disorder," Civil Wars 1, no. 1 (Spring 1998), pp. 36-64; Ralph Peters, Fighting for the Future: Will America Triumph? (Mechanicsburg, Penna.: Stackpole Books, 1999).
(21.) Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996).
(22.) Kaldor, esp. chaps. 4-6.
(23.) See for example, Walter Laqueur, The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford Univ. Press), 1999; Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr., The Revenge of the Melians: Asymmetric Threats and the New QDR, McNair Paper 62 (Washington, D.C.: Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense Univ., 2000); and the essays in William R. Schilling, ed,, Nontraditional Warfare.
(24.) U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, New World Coming: American Security in the 21st Century, Supporting Research & Analysis, Phase I Report (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, 15 September 1999), p. 57 [emphasis added].
(25.) Donald H. Rumsfeld, "Transforming the Military," Foreign Affairs 81, no. 3 (May-June 2002), p. 23.