Low Intensity Warfare: How the USA Fights Wars Without Declaring Them

During the past few years the United States has been at war in many parts of the world. No soldiers are deployed in the conventional sense; no authorization has been passed by Congress. Yet in Central America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa the USA has been increasingly engaged in counter-insurgency, pro-insurgency and antiterrorist campaigns - wars not defined as war. The nine contributors to this book look at the nature and future of American war-fighting capabilities as they are re-oriented towards unconventional conflicts in the Third World - what the Pentagon calls "low intensity warfare. They look at Nicaragua, Afghanistan and the Philippines as well as speculating on the scenes of future conflicts.