Children at war
by Singer, P. W., (Peter Warren)
Analyzes the growing use of children as soldiers in global conflicts, explaining how youngsters are recruited and abducted, indoctrinated, trained, and utilized as warriors; how changes in weapons technology and a breakdown of global order have led to the phenomenon; and how Western armies can prepare themselves.
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- Full title :Children at war / P.W. Singer.
Summary
Analyzes the growing use of children as soldiers in global conflicts, explaining how youngsters are recruited and abducted, indoctrinated, trained, and utilized as warriors; how changes in weapons technology and a breakdown of global order have led to the phenomenon; and how Western armies can prepare themselves.
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- Publication Date:2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xii, 269 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781101970058, 1101970057, 133614033X, 9781336140332
- oclc:ocn632571952
- LC Classification:UB416
- Dewey Decimal:355/.0083
Table of Contents
Children at war -- Children and war -- It's a small world after all: child soldiers around the globe -- The process and results of child soldiers -- The underlying causes -- How children are recruited into war -- Turning a child into a soldier -- The implications of children of the battlefield -- The new children of terror -- Responding to the child soldier problem -- Preventing child soldiers -- Fighting children -- Turning a soldier back into a child -- Looking ahead.
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