Surrogate warfare: the transformation of war in the twenty-first century.

A wide variety of new concepts and theories about twenty-first-century warfare has been proposed, ranging from the "new wars" theories popularized by the likes of Martin van Creveld and Mary Kaldor, to the return of concepts such as "asymmetric war" and "counterinsurgency" and ideas of "fourth-generation warfare", "unrestricted warfare", "postmodern warfare", "remote warfare" and "grey zone" or "hybrid" warfare. The questions of whether war is changing and if contemporary wars are fundamentally different from earlier armed conflicts have been discussed at great length since the bipolar superpower competition of the Cold War came to an end. In this context, the biggest criticism one might direct against the book is that it is not quite convincing in distinguishing surrogate warfare from other similar concepts, such as compound, remote-controlled and proxy warfare. [Extracted from the article]

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