Gen. note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-253) and index.
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.
Abstract
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.
ISBN
0375423494
Subject
Child soldiers -- History -- 20th century. Child soldiers -- History -- 21st century.
