Download or read book Security, Strategy, and the Quest for a Bloodless War written by Robert Mandel and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, government and military officials alike have pushed increasingly in the direction of ""bloodless wars, "" where confrontations are undertaken--and ultimately won--with minimum loss of human life. Robert Mandel provides the first comprehensive analysis of this trend. After exploring the moral, legal, military, and political bases of the desire to minimize wartime casualties, Mandel examines the actual strategies and tools involved; here, the focus is on nonlethal weapons, precision-guided munitions, and information warfare. He then addresses the sobering practical constraints.