ASYMMETRIC CHALLENGES AND THEIR IMPACT ON CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Abstract

Looking beyond the results of 9/11 wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq it is obvious that the attention of the American nation as well as of world society is focused on the future. The international political arena is concentrated on new asymmetric challenges and conventional warfare. What is now described as asymmetrical warfare is by no means a new phenomenon in military history or in the American experience. There are some situations, when opposing military forces choose completely different positions and approaches to warfare and it dates back to the first military encounters between armed forces (particularly since the end of the Cold War). What is Asymmetric warfare and why its emergence is so important in the contemporary world? The answers to these question will be answered in this paper.