ABSTRACT
The terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC on September 11, 2001, caused the US military to grasp a new focus on a new kind of warfare which has been labeled variously as the “global war on terrorism,” “the long war,” “asymmetric warfare,” and “fourth generation warfare.” Whatever terms we use to describe the new practice of warfare it is clear that with it, along comes a new set of stressors, both psychological and physiological, our military forces need to prepare to face. Behavioral scientists, especially military psychologists, need to examine old paradigms of coping with stress and need to help combatants formulate new ones. Accordingly, Mangelsdorff (2006) and C.J. Kennedy and Zillmer (2006) assembled current state-of-the-science texts describing military psychology’s historical approaches to new challenges prompted by the changing face of national security.
