Modern Stateless Warfare

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ISBN: 9780230211421 | 0230211429
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/15/2010

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This book focuses on insurgent stateless warfare in its guerrilla and terrorist modes and in its nationalist, maoist and postmaoist phases of modernisation. Insurgency is compared with states warfare and with criminality and then insurgents motive, means and opportunity are analysed from social-science, military and environmental perspectives.

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List of Tables	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Insurgent Stateless Warfare	p. 9
Historical Background	p. 11
Becoming modern ‘guerrilla’ warfare	p. 12
The second, maoist phase of modernisation	p. 18
The third-phase modernisation of insurgent stateless warfare	p. 26
The Types and Modes of Insurgency	p. 34
The expeller, revolutionary and separatist types of insurgency	p. 34
The guerrilla and terrorist modes of insurgency	p. 37
Distinguishing insurgency from other non-state warfare	p. 43
Insurgent Strategies	p. 50
Preparing for battle - the maoist model	p. 51
An outdated strategy	p. 62
Pressuring politically through military hurt	p. 67
The political calculus of the pressure strategy	p. 71
Terroristic Warfare and Strategies	p. 77
Total war and attacking the civilian ‘home front’	p. 78
Similarities with the terrorist mode of insurgency	p. 82
Propaganda and provocation - typically terrorist strategies	p. 88
Comparisons with Criminality	p. 100
Comparisons with bandits and gangsters	p. 101
Hybrid bands	p. 114
The forensic calculus	p. 117
The Calculus of Insurgency: Motive, Means and Opportunity	p. 125
The Motives of Insurgency	p. 127
The problems of motive	p. 128
Collective-action problems	p. 132
The variety and mixture of motives	p. 136
The Means of Insurgency	p. 143
Motivation as capability	p. 144
Insurgents' military capability	p. 146
Leadership - awareness and adaptability	p. 152
Opportunity and Environments	p. 156
The physical environment - rural and urban	p. 158
The political and military environments	p. 164
Operational zones	p. 171
Support bases	p. 175
The Social-Political Environment	p. 180
Rebels with a cause	p. 182
Ethnic/sectarian support	p. 194
Urban and insurrectionary support	p. 198
Conclusion	p. 202
Summing up	p. 202
The shape of things to come	p. 205
What is likely to be done?	p. 210
Notes	p. 213
Bibliography	p. 238
Index	p. 248
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