The Thin Red Line by Robert Gibb
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Within numerous of the defining problematics of the late twentieth century -- problematics such as globalization, governance, and geography -- unruliness appears as a mantra to some and as a paradigmatic and spectral condition to others. In and of itself, the concept of "unruliness" is not a secret cipher to our contemporary global political economy. It expresses no hidden essence nor does it offer divine revelation, a mastering concept based on a god's eye view (the position of a Mackinder) from which to make sense of the messy complexity of our world at the end of the millennium. Like all concepts, its multiple uses are delimited con-textually. Our interest in it is as a path of entry into the problematics of ungovernable globalization, turbulent governance, and disorderly geography, problematics where "unruliness" registers in ways which divulge certain lines of power and disclose ironic contradictions in the structural trends and tendencies re-configuring the rules of the globe. In this sense, the unruly is, for us, a question and not an answer, a open line of inquiry and not a closed definitive description. So it is, too, for the essays that make up this volume which engage the unruly problematics of globalization, governance, and geography in different places, contexts, sectors, and institutional sites. Rather than describe each essay in detail or discipline all in the name of a forced thematic singularity, we wish to use this introduction to articulate the multiple problematics they negotiate, articulating as we go along the particular sites of power addressed by the various chapters in the volume. Our goal in this volume is not to survey the global political economy we work within from some transcendent "geographical perspective" but, instead, to engage with the polymorphous unruliness of our world to gain a greater understanding of its shifting tectonics of power and the faultlines they generate.
Fourth Generation Warfare - Roughly speaking, "fourth generation warfare" includes all forms of conflict where the other side refuses to stand up and fight fair. What distinguishes 4GW from earlier generations is that typically at least one side is something other than a military force organized and operating under the control of a national government, and one that often transcends national boundaries.
Joint Vision 2020, Operational Maneuver from the Sea, and Navy policy and vision statements all point to three inescapable military trends that will shape future operational capabilities:
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