Na bijna twintig jaar War on Terror en het uitvoeren van de tweede hoofdtaak zijn krijgsmachten zich aan het heroriënteren. Het omarmen van het traditionele interstatelijke conflict, de conceptuele comfort zone, ligt voor de hand. Maar het huidige en toekomstige dreigingsbeeld gaat eerder uit van …

During the last two decades the operational environment for Western armed forces has been dominated by the global war on terror and irregular warfare.1 Both modes of conflict are strongly associated with unorthodox units and tactics resulting in special operations forces occupying, or at least sharing, …

Over the past decades, international terrorism started to reach its ideological peak, challenging and disrupting whole societies and governmental organs. This modern form of terror contains violent implications, psychologically pressing the innocent masses. Initially inspired by occasional, domestically …

In studies of soldiers’ fears and behavior during war it has been generally acknowledged that their paramount concern is not fear of death, but the fate of their comrades and subordinates. This study aims to delve deeper into this issue. This study deals with the impact of actual death threat on self-perceptions …

The author explains the different worldviews of Americans and Europeans and argues for a happy medium between American paranoia and European nonchalance