WAR TERMINOLOGY – CLARIFICATION, CONFUSION, USEFULNESS
WAR TERMINOLOGY – CLARIFICATION, CONFUSION, USEFULNESS

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to bring into debate the tendency of defining and classification of warfare, as opposed to the practical element, planning and conducting war. Why do we need to define each conflict? Is warfare changing its essence? The answer is negative, so why is it important or where does the necessity to define each type of warfare rise from? How does a certain war classification help from the operational point of view? Why don’t we find in military regulations steps or procedures for each conflict that the analysts are bringing into attention? Warfare is a way to clear up a political or geostrategic dilemma. Is that enough? Principles that describe the new warfare characteristics and typology are the result of the modern general laws of the military conflicts and the current and future society issues, and these bring into our analysis elements under continuing development and changes that are hard to define.

• Details
• Contents