1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961049703321

Autore

Fowler Michael C. <1965->

Titolo

Amateur soldiers, global wars : insurgency and modern conflict / / Michael C. Fowler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger Security International, , 2005

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024

ISBN

9798400609633

9786612409905

9781282409903

1282409905

9780313068935

0313068933

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Disciplina

355.02/18

Soggetti

Counterinsurgency

Insurgency

Security, International

Soldiers

Terrorists

War

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-178) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Case for Global Insurgency -- What Is Happening? -- Why Insurgency? -- Three Factors for Success -- The Importance of Context -- The Path Ahead -- Chapter 2. Leadership and Mobilization -- Issues and Their Characteristics -- Organization -- Leadership -- Activation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Global Insurgency Warfare -- Dispersal and Eclecticism -- Defining the Adversary -- Operations -- New Battlefields -- Warfare Redefined -- Chapter 4. Intelligence -- Direction and Planning -- Collection -- Analysis and Production -- Dissemination -- Sabotage -- Organized Crime -- Chapter 5. Funding, Procurement, and Training -- Funding -- Procurement -- Training -- Conclusion --



Chapter 6. A Theory of Global Insurgency -- Understanding Global Insurgency -- Frequently Asked Questions -- Implications -- Chapter 7. Al Qaeda and HMS Dreadnought -- Al Qaeda Tested -- Unplanned Political Agendas -- A New Path for Warfare -- What Can We Do? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Works Consulted -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Transnational politics, modern communications, and access to the tools of warfare have combined to give political movements the ability to wage global war to promote their own agendas, a development that has changed the face of both politics and warfare. Fowler examines current aspects of conducting war, including mobilization, funding, training, fighting, and intelligence to demonstrate how they are accessible to anyone and are well-suited to waging insurgency efforts in many places around the world. Such efforts force governments to deal with unforeseen enemies who violently advance their agendas in a quest for increased power and authority. Because global insurgents, such as al Qaeda, build more direct connections between politics and the use of force, confronting them requires solutions that emphasize politics as much as the use of force. National governments must unite to seek cooperative solutions to issues that affect them. The implications of the adoption of such strategies by groups with varied agendas will undoubtedly change foreign policy planning for decades to come.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910765820203321

Autore

Cetinsaya Gokhan

Titolo

Ottoman administration of Iraq, 1890-1908 / / Gokhan Cetinsaya

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2006

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2017

©2006

ISBN

9786610538928

9781134294954

1134294956

9781280538926

1280538929

9780203332467

0203332466

9780203481325

0203481321

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East

Classificazione

HIS026000POL017000POL040020

Disciplina

320.9567/09/034

Soggetti

Nonfiction

History

Politics

Iraq History 1534-1921

Iraq Social conditions 1534-1921 Sources

Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The setting of an Ottoman province -- The issue of reform -- The sultan's officials -- The vilayet of Baghdad -- The vilayet of Mosul -- The vilayet of Basra -- Tribal problems -- The vilayet of Mosul -- The vilayet of Baghdad -- The vilayet of Basra -- The Shi'i problem -- The British danger.

Sommario/riassunto

This is a study of the nature of Ottoman administration under Sultan Abdulhamid and the effects of this on the three provinces that were to



form the modern state of Iraq. The author provides a general commentary on the late Ottoman provincial administration and a comprehensive picture of the nature of its interaction with provincial society. In drawing on sources of the Ottoman archives, bringing together and analyzing an abundance of complex documents, this book is a fascinating contribution to the field of Middle Eastern studies.