O Estudo da teoria da guerra de quarta geração na Segunda Guerra do Golfo (2003)

Abstract

Classic War`s Studies by Clausewitz embased military doctrine definitions for almost two centuries, and nowadays has been very criticized since Cold War end. Academics doubts about Clasewitz`s Paradigma and tryies to update the knowledge about war. Among these new studies, there is The Fourth Generation Warfare Theory, developed by Willian Lind in 1989. This paper is proposed to analise how The Fourth Generation Warfare Theory could be aplied to describe warfare conflicts after Cold War end. The metodology of this paper is a Fourth Generation Warfare Theory theoric exam, lookinf to Second Gulf War in 2003 with the objective to certify if The Fourth Generation Warfare Theory is a consistant theoric model to define new doctrines of armed forces aply.