<div><p style="margin:0px; line-height:normal; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Today’s warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using high-tech weaponry. The editors of and contributors to the timely collection <i>Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World</i>show that this shift reflects changes in the technological, strategic, ideological, and ethical realms.</p><p style="margin:0px; line-height:normal; font-family:'Times New Roman'; min-height:15px">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0px; line-height:normal; font-family:'Times New Roman'">The essays in this volume discuss:</p><p style="margin:0px; line-height:normal; font-family:'Times New Roman'">· the waning connection between citizenship and soldiering;&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0px; line-height:normal; font-family:'Times New Roman'">· the shift toward more reconstructive than destructive activities by militaries;&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0px; line-height:normal; font-family:'Times New Roman'">· the ethics of irregular or asymmetrical warfare;&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0px; line-height:normal; font-family:'Times New Roman'">· the role of novel techniques of identification in military settings;&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0px; line-height:normal; font-family:'Times New Roman'">· the stress on precision associated with targeted killings and kidnappings;&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0px; line-height:normal; font-family:'Times New Roman'">· the uses of the social sciences in contemporary warfare.&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0px; line-height:normal; font-family:'Times New Roman'; min-height:15px">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0px; line-height:normal; font-family:'Times New Roman'">In his concluding remarks, David Jacobson explores the extent to which the contemporary transformation of warfare is a product of a shift in the character of the combatants themselves.&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0px; line-height:normal; font-family:'Times New Roman'; min-height:15px"><i>Contributors include: Ariel Colonomos, Roberto J. González, Travis R. Hall, Saskia Hooiveld, Rob Johnson, Colonel C. Anthony Pfaff, Ian Roxborough, and the editors</i></p></div>