Garrity, Claire Louise Halo (2014). ‘Flowers in their minds’: the failure of the US to sufficiently evolve its capabilities to succeed in a fourth generational warfare environment. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.
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Abstract
The US administration and military entered into a Fourth Generational Warfare war in Iraq in 2003 without having sufficiently evolved their practices to succeed in the same. A focus on Third Generational Warfare, and a lack of priority given to the psy-cultural battleground, led to an expensive and protracted engagement to satisfy US security requirements. This thesis will examine the contrasting ideas regarding the future of warfare, and then use the Iraq War of 2003 for specific examples of the failure to evolve to meet the demands of 4GW. The failure to evolve came from the top.
| Type of Work: | Thesis (Masters by Research > M.Phil.) | ||||||
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| Award Type: | Masters by Research > M.Phil. | ||||||
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| College/Faculty: | Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Arts & Law | ||||||
| School or Department: | School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies | ||||||
| Funders: | None/not applicable | ||||||
| Subjects: | E History America > E11 America (General) U Military Science > U Military Science (General) |
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| URI: | http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/5394 |
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