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Positional warfare : a paradigm for understanding twenty-first-century conflict / Kaushal, Sidharth

Kaushal, Sidharth	Journal Article
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Over the past two decades, the literature on international security has been characterised by an emphasis on the current radical changes in the character of warfare. While different strands focus on different aspects of modern warfare, they are united in the belief that the character of war is undergoing a radical shift. Sidharth Kaushal argues, however, that contemporary changes in the conduct of war represent not a radical shift in the character of warfare, but a regression to the eighteenth-century paradigm of positional warfare.

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Positional Warfare ; Twenty-First-Century Conflict

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Strategic net assessment: opportunities and pitfalls / Roberts, Peter; Kaushal, Sidharth

Roberts, Peter	Journal Article
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he recent interest in a net assessment capability by the UK Ministry of Defence raises questions regarding the usefulness of this instrument. While some might argue that the eclectic nature of net assessment breaks the moribund and short-term thinking that can all too often blinker policy, others contend that it is little more than shorthand for unstructured, unsubstantiated and often Delphic pronouncements. In this article, Peter Roberts and Sidharth Kaushal argue that the key to leveraging the strengths of net assessment is understanding the nature of the tool and the ways in which flexibility can be married with rigour to glean insights from this method while minimising its pitfalls.

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Intelligence ; Strategic Net Assessment ; Opportunities and Pitfalls

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