Intelligence & Espionage, Engineering, European, Political Science, National & International Security, Military, Military Sciences 

From more than a decade, the western intelligent community has been warning of the risk of terrorist attack. While the west’s concern with its own affluence and dominion created wide disparities in wealth and deep resentment in many parts of the world, military establishments continued to the transfixed by weapons systems with ever-greater firepower and politicians by the size of defence budgets.
Territorial defence – including protection from terrorism –most remain paramount. Yet most of today’s challenges to security come from those unwilling to adjust to a global society. Although small groups of men have shown themselves capable unleashing huge destructive force- as demonstrated in New York on 11 September 2001-future threats to the security of west are likely to concern not our immediate safety but that of the world in which we have an interest.
Warfare has become the most costly and least sustainable means to achieve real security, which now depends on our expanding the zone of peace and co-operation, using soft power but always with a hard edge. This book welds already existing practices in diplomacy, conflict prevention and non-lethal weaponry into a powerful doctrine for achieving that security.
Together, Europe and United States represent an unrivaled combination of diplomacy and might, soft and hard power. But they still have fully to comprehend complementary roles in ensuring future global security. The NATO Alliance should, john leech argues, recognize the need for sensible re-balancing of functions, acknowledging the investment each partner is already making in their common security.
In our globalize and technologically driven world, decision about defence and security are becoming increasingly open to public influence. Asymmetries of conflict: war without death aims to give both voters and decision-makers a new vision how to manage crisis and avert hostilities using a set of proven non-traditional means.
John leech is European coordinator of the American-European political and security circle West-West Agenda, and a leading member of the federal Trust. He has written on European and NATO subjects on development co-operation, and is a member of international Institution for strategic studies and a fellow of the royal society of Arts.
He was assistant director of NATO parliamentarians’ conference during the formative period of the Atlantic congress. He is a man of several world:

 

Decisions about defence and security are becoming increasingly open to public influence. This book therefore aims to give both the voter and the decision maker a new vision of how to manage crises and avert hostilities with non-traditional means. - from Amzon 

CONTENTS
1. The war of nations………………………………………………………........……P 1
The wages of war……………………………………………………………………..P 1
The causes……………………………………………………………………………....P 3
The frontier mentality……………………………………………………………...P 5
The economics cost………………………………………………………………....P 7
Adjusting our sights…………………………………………………………...…..P 10
War and the twenty-first-century…………………………………..……...P 12
2. War and choice…………......………………………………………………………...P 15
The risks of a fractions world………………………………………………....P 18
A sketch map of risks………………………………………………………...……P 20
Living with proliferation……………………………………………………….....P 29
The risks in perspective…………………………………………………….....…P 33
The phantom armies………………………………………………………….......P 36
Arms and the man……………………………………………………………........P 39
3. Countering with other means……………………………………...........…..P 43
The ultra- smart weapons……………………………………………........……P 43
The concept of just war………………………………………….......……..……P 45
Preventive diplomacy………………………………………………………..........P 47
The Harvard techniques…………........………………………………………….P 51
Peace-building from below……..........……………………………….……….P 56
Fear-reduction measures………........………………………………………….P 59
Defence diplomacy…………….........……………………………………………..P 61
If all else fails……………….........……………………………………………………P 63
Interdiction of physical means………………………….........……………..P 63
Is the UN a credible instrument?……………..........………………………P 74
Bending resistance without a fight……………………...........………….P 78
4. Sieg ohne Krieg………………………………………................……………….P 82
Psy war……………………………………….............……………………………….P 82
Political and psychological weapons…………............………………..P 86
The psy tools…………..............………………………………………………….P 90
Is it Ethical…………...............…………………………………………………...P 96
Elements of psyops campaign………...........…………………...…….…P 100
Technology and means of delivery………................………….……P 105
And then the peace………................…………………………….………..P 106
Can psyops really work?...................................................P 108
5. A strategy for Co-operation……………………………...............………P 110
How can it begin?............................................................P 110
The growth of authority…………………................………………………P 115
Co-operative and the middle East……………..............……………..P 117
It pays to be nice…………….............…………………………………………P 121
Deterrence revisited………………………………..............…………………P 126
6. Arms control and its Technology…………................…………………P 134
Superman and Supergun………………............……………………………P 134
Where are we technically?.................................................P 136
Where are we politically?..................................................P 138
The policemen will get you……..............………………………………..P 142
My brother’s keeper……………..............…………………………………..P 146
Sending the wrong signals…………………………….............………….P 152
Or doing what we’ve always done………............…………………….P 154
7. War without Death…………………………..................……………………P 158
The dilemma of force…………………….............…………………………..P 158
The new tasks……........…………………………………………………………...P 160
Non-lethal weapons……..........…………………………………………………P 162
Lessons from experience……………………………..........…………………P 170
Are they Ethical?.............................................................P 172
The strategic implications……..............…………………………………..P 177
The new options…………...............……………………………………………P 179
8. Taking the lead………............…………………………………………………..P 183
A political base for the silent strategies………........………………….P183
Taking the decision…………………........……………………………………….P 188
A European security and Defence Identity……......………………….P 190
A transatlantic security structure…………………….....………………….P 193
A new basic for transatlantic understanding………....……………….P 196
To each his own…………………………………....………………………………….P 199