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New Elements in the Armed Conflicts in the 21st Century

Summary/Abstract: The main purpose of this article is to put forward the rising of new elements of armed conflicts: media, non-governmental organizations and private military companies. In today’s conflict fields, not only military but also non-state actors take part and effect on the course of conflicts. Media is now become the embedded part of military units during wartime. Non-governmental organizations are inevitable especially post conflict process. Private military companies have looked like as a substitution of armies. Therefore, media, non-governmental organizations and private military companies, the other elements of 21st Century’s conflicts, have become important factors to be evaluated not only by war planners but also by war scholars. For the theory of war, as a war scholar Clausewitz developed the trinity: the people, the army and the government. According to his trinity, victory can be secured only if the proper equilibrium is achieved among these three dimensions. But the equilibrium of war looks like to be effected by the others.

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