ABSTRACT
Since the end of World War II, a new form of warfare has been born. Production of a homogenized overarching culture associated with imperial ideologies was also a characteristic feature of governance of the colonial empires that straddled across Afro-Asia. Most of the African and South Asian colonial soldiers employed by the metropolitan powers till world war II were illiterates. Frontier politics at the different colonies of the different metropolitan powers varied. The colonial frontiers of all the metropolitan powers were more or less maintained by indigenous colonial soldiery. Roger Chickering and Stig Forster rightly say that colonial warfare anticipated certain features of Total war, i.e., in targeting the civilian sectors. Different military officers/philosophers and scholars at various moments of history viewed their own era as something special and witnessing a new form of warfare.
