Note: This paper appeared in the 6th Volume of the Journal on Terrorism and Security Analysis in Spring 2011.

Excerpt
As much as scholars of all academic disciplines would like to think of their discipline as purely based on observation and analysis, undoubtedly they are subject to temporary fashion cycles which influence the debate beyond mere scientific findings and scientific reasoning.

Military strategy and defense policy are no exception to that. Throughout military history, military thinkers have been subject to such cycles with concerns to the question of what really was at the contemporary cutting edge nature of warfare and what the future of warfare would be like. Continue reading (PDF)

About the author
Christian Geib is pursuing a LLM at Stanford Law School. He earned his degree of Bachelor of Law – LL.B. (J.D. equivalent) in 2006 as part of a multilingual/multijurisdictional degree of the Hanse Law School Program between the Universities of Bremen, Oldenburg (Germany) and Groningen (The Netherlands). Prior to his law school studies, he studied political science at the University of Tübingen (Germany) and the Catholic University of Santiago de Chile. During his studies, he interned at the German Parliament, the international law department of the German Ministry of Defense, and in corporate investment banking of Deutsche Bank. Following his graduation, he worked with a large retail company and for a science and research policy project of the European Commission. Geib is a reserve officer with the German Armed Forces.