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Children at war
- Author
- Singer, P. W. (Peter Warren)
- Title
- Children at war / P.W. Singer.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Published
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2005.
- Description
- xii, 269 p. ; 25 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-253) and index.
- Contents
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- 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.
- 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.
- Subject headings
- Child soldiers--History--20th century. Child soldiers--History--21st century.
- ISBN
- 0375423494
- Standard Identifier
- 9780375423499