Uncomfortable Wars Revisited

Since the end of the Cold War and especially since September 11 2001 the United States has faced daunting challenges in the areas of foreign policy and national security. Threatened by failing states insurgencies civil wars and terrorism the nation has been compelled to re-evaluate its traditional responses to global conflict. In this timely book John T. Fishel and Max G. Manwaring present a much-needed strategy for conducting unconventional warfare in an increasingly violent world.In the early 1990s Manwaring introduced a new paradigm for addressing low-intensity conflicts or conflicts other than major wars. Termed the Manwaring Paradigm or SWORD (Small Wars Operations Research Directorate) model it has been tested successfully by scholars and practitioners and refined in the wake of new and significant uncomfortable wars around the world most notably the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Uncomfortable Wars Revisited broadens the definition of the original paradigm and applies it to specific confrontations