Page 12 - 2018 UCT Catalogue

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2017
232 pages
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Strategic Corporal Revisited, The
Challenges for combatants in 21st-century warfare
Editors: D Lovell & D-P Baker
As we enter an era of multidimensional warfare, and the pace of war trends towards ‘machine speed’, the importance of decisions made by junior military leaders—some of them with strategic impact—continues to grow exponentially. US Marine Corps General Charles C. Krulak coined the term ‘The Strategic Corporal’ nearly two decades ago, and it is more relevant today than ever. This book is the rst scholarly analysis of the challenges facing Strategic Corporals— and those who seek to prepare and equip them—in the 21st century. The topics addressed include leadership and education, military culture, peacekeeping, counterinsurgency, cyberwarfare, and private military contractors and NGOs in the contemporary battlespace. Also included is a historian’s re ection on General Krulak’s development of the ‘Strategic Corporal’ concept, and a practitioner’s response to the scholarly arguments contained in the book. This book will be of interest to scholars of contemporary security and armed con ict as well as practitioners who are, or serve alongside, today’s Strategic Corporals.
Recommended for
Undergraduates in Law, History, Ethics, Politics and International Studies courses that deal with the nature of war, counterinsurgency or the ‘global war on terrorism’; professionals and researchers in Military Studies, military development, particularly in military education and training establishments in the UK, US, Canada and Australia; academic libraries.
About the editors
David Lovell is Professor of International and Political Studies, and Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He is a member of the Australian Political Studies Association and the International Political Studies Association, and is on the committee of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (and is co-editor of its journal, The European Legacy). Deane-Peter Baker is a lecturer at the University of New South Wales. He was formerly an Assistant Professor of Ethics in the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the United States Naval Academy and Associate Professor of Ethics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He was a co-editor of South Africa and Contemporary Counterinsurgency: Roots, practices, prospects (UCT Press: 2010)