Winning Wars amongst the PeopleSince the end of World War II a paradigm shift has occurred in armed conflict. Asymmetric, or fourth generation warfarethe challenge of nonstate belligerents to the authority and power of the statehas become the dominant form of conflict, while interstate conventional war has become an increasingly irrelevant instrument of statecraft. In asymmetric conflicts the enemy is often a fellow citizen with a different vision for the future of the