The Logic Of Irregular War
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The Logic Of Irregular War
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Author : Ilan Berman
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-11-10
The Logic Of Irregular War written by Ilan Berman and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-10 with Political Science categories.
For the United States, asymmetric warfare has emerged as the “new normal.” The large-scale conventional campaigns that typified U.S. military engagements for much of the 20th Century are increasingly things of the past. Instead, the quarter-century since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the U.S.-Soviet balance of power has seen irregular war truly come of age, with more and more hostile nations pursuing asymmetric means in order to secure the strategic advantage vis-à-vis the United States. In this volume, a group of leading national security practitioners and subject matter experts comes together to analyze the asymmetric strategies being pursued today by America’s main state-based adversaries—Russia, China, Iran and North Korea—and to explore how U.S. policymakers can respond more effectively to them.
Theory Of Irregular War
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Author : Jonathan W. Hackett
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2024-01-05
Theory Of Irregular War written by Jonathan W. Hackett and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-05 with History categories.
From Afghanistan to Angola, Indonesia to Iran, and Colombia to Congo, violent reactions erupt, states collapse, and militaries relentlessly pursue operations doomed to fail. And yet, no useful theory exists to explain this common tragedy. All over the world, people and states clash violently outside their established political systems, as unfulfilled demands of control and productivity bend the modern state to a breaking point. This book lays out how dysfunctional governments disrupt social orders, make territory insecure, and interfere with political-economic institutions. These give rise to a form of organized violence against the state known as irregular war. Research reveals why this frequent phenomenon is so poorly understood among conventional forces in those conflicts and the states who send their children to die in them.
Irregular Warfare The Future Military Strategy For Small States
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Author : Sándor Fabian
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-02-17
Irregular Warfare The Future Military Strategy For Small States written by Sándor Fabian and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-17 with categories.
A thought provoking essay on the possible implications of irregular warfare in national military strategy.
Strategy
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Author : Edward Luttwak
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2001
Strategy written by Edward Luttwak and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
In this widely acclaimed work, now revised and expanded, Luttwak unveils the peculiar logic of strategy level by level, from grand strategy down to combat tactics. He explores examples from ancient Rome to present day to reveal the ultimate logic of military failure and success, of war and peace. 5 tables.
Preparing For One War And Getting Another
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Author : Antulio Joseph Echevarria
language : en
Publisher: Strategic Studies Institute
Release Date : 2010
Preparing For One War And Getting Another written by Antulio Joseph Echevarria and has been published by Strategic Studies Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
"This monograph examines the fundamental argument that America's adversaries are shifting more toward irregular methods due to the demonstrated prowess of the U.S. military at conventional warfare. This argument is based on what one might call a paradoxical logic, not unlike that described by Edward Luttwak in his classic work, Strategy. Among other things, the monograph concludes that few genuine paradoxes exist in war; most principles that appear paradoxical are completely linear. Moreover, those adversarial states and nonstate actors employing irregular methods today were doing so long before the U.S. military demonstrated its superiority at conventional warfare, and will likely continue to do so." --
The Logic Of Violence In Civil War
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Author : Stathis N. Kalyvas
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-05-01
The Logic Of Violence In Civil War written by Stathis N. Kalyvas and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-01 with Political Science categories.
By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective emotions, ideologies, and cultures than currently believed. Kalyvas specifies a novel theory of selective violence: it is jointly produced by political actors seeking information and individual civilians trying to avoid the worst but also grabbing what opportunities their predicament affords them. Violence, he finds, is never a simple reflection of the optimal strategy of its users; its profoundly interactive character defeats simple maximization logics while producing surprising outcomes, such as relative nonviolence in the 'frontlines' of civil war.
America S Dirty Wars
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Author : Russell Crandall
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-28
America S Dirty Wars written by Russell Crandall and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-28 with History categories.
This book examines the long, complex experience of American involvement in irregular warfare. It begins with the American Revolution in 1776 and chronicles big and small irregular wars for the next two and a half centuries. What is readily apparent in dirty wars is that failure is painfully tangible while success is often amorphous. Successfully fighting these wars often entails striking a critical balance between military victory and politics. America's status as a democracy only serves to make fighting - and, to a greater degree, winning - these irregular wars even harder. Rather than futilely insisting that Americans should not or cannot fight this kind of irregular war, Russell Crandall argues that we would be better served by considering how we can do so as cleanly and effectively as possible.
Perspectives On The American Way Of War
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Author : Thomas A. Marks
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-06-29
Perspectives On The American Way Of War written by Thomas A. Marks and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-29 with History categories.
Perspectives on the American Way of War examines salient cases of American experience in irregular warfare, focusing upon the post-World War II era. This book asks why recent misfires have emerged in irregular warfare from an institutional, professional, and academic context which regularly produces evidence that there is in fact no lack of understanding of both irregular challenges and correct responses. Expert contributors explore the reasoning behind the inability to achieve victory, however defined, and argue that what security professionals have failed to fully recognize, even today, is that what is at issue is not warfare suffused with politics but rather the very opposite, politics suffused with warfare. Perspectives on the American Way of War will be of great interest to scholars of war and conflict studies, strategic and military studies, insurgency and counterinsurgency, and terrorism and counterterrorism. The book was originally published as a special issue of Small Wars & Insurgencies.
Conflict Realism Understanding Causal
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Author : FOX
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-07-31
Conflict Realism Understanding Causal written by FOX and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-31 with categories.
Tortured Logic
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Author : Joseph K. Young
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-28
Tortured Logic written by Joseph K. Young and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-28 with Political Science categories.
Experts in the intelligence community say that torture is ineffective. Yet much of the public appears unconvinced: surveys show that nearly half of Americans think that torture can be acceptable for counterterrorism purposes. Why do people persist in supporting torture—and can they be persuaded to change their minds? In Tortured Logic, Erin M. Kearns and Joseph K. Young draw upon a novel series of group experiments to understand how and why the average citizen might come to support the use of torture techniques. They find evidence that when torture is depicted as effective in the media, people are more likely to approve of it. Their analysis weighs variables such as the ethnicity of the interrogator and the suspect; the salience of one’s own mortality; and framing by experts. Kearns and Young also examine who changes their opinions about torture and how, demonstrating that only some individuals have fixed views while others have more malleable beliefs. They argue that efforts to reduce support for torture should focus on convincing those with fluid views that torture is ineffective. The book features interviews with experienced interrogators and professionals working in the field to contextualize its findings. Bringing empirical rigor to a fraught topic, Tortured Logic has important implications for understanding public perceptions of counterterrorism strategy.