Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank the MIT Security Studies Program for providing critical support in the early stages of our work, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for its sustained encouragement and support of our research programme. In addition, we are grateful to the Office of Net Assessment at the US Department of Defense and its Associate Director Andrew May for sponsoring a workshop dedicated to the issue of society-centric warfare. The authors are further indebted to the workshop participants for their invaluable insights and suggestions: Eliot Cohen, Jacqueline Newmyer Deal, Etienne de Durand, Aaron Friedberg, Kelly Greenhill, Bruce Jentleson, Athanassios Platias and Katarzyna Zysk. We also thank Taylor Fravel, George Perkovich, Roger Petersen, Barry Posen, Stephen Van Evera and Robert Willig for their critical input, insight and feedback as our work progressed.