BEYOND SHOCK AND AWE: Warfare in the 21st Century

BEYOND SHOCK AND AWE: Warfare in the 21st Century, Eric L. Haney with Brian M. Thomsen, eds., Berkley Publishing Group, New York, 2006, 258 pages, $24.95.

In Beyond Shock and Awe, Eric Haney claims that the future operating environment will be even more complex than today's, and he ponders how the U.S. might structurally and psychologically transform to meet the challenge. Broad in scope, Haney's book contains a mixed bag of contemporary analyses from an array of authors. From the indifferent to the insightful, the book attempts to forecast the nature of future warfare. Pragmatically, it suggests how we might train, equip, and structure any future...