LEADER 04517oam  2200901   450 
001 9910554241103321
005 20210615124439.0
010   $a0-691-21666-5
024 7 $a10.1515/9780691216652
035   $a(CKB)5590000000430867
035   $a(OCoLC)1224042096
035   $a(MdBmJHUP)muse92503
035   $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6451967
035   $a(DE-B1597)573236
035   $a(OCoLC)1253313282
035   $a(DE-B1597)9780691216652
035   $a(PPN)259365432
035   $a(EXLCZ)995590000000430867
100   $a20210615d2021      uy             0
101 0 $aeng
135   $aur|||||||nn|n
181   $ctxt$2rdacontent
182   $cc$2rdamedia
183   $acr$2rdacarrier
200 10$aNonstate warfare $ethe military methods of guerillas, warlords, and militias /$fStephen Biddle
210  1$aPrinceton, New Jersey :$cPrinceton University Press,$d[2021]
210  4$d©2021
215   $a1 online resource (1 online resource)
300   $a"A Council on Foreign Relations book."
311   $a0-691-20751-8 
311   $a0-691-21665-7 
327   $aThe fallacy of guerilla warfare -- Materially optimal behavior -- Politically achievable behavior -- Hezbollah in the 2006 Lebanon Campaign -- The Jaish al Mahdi in Iraq, 2003-2008 -- The Somali National Alliance in Somalia, 1992-1994 -- The ZNG, HV, and SVK in the Croatian Wars of Independence, 1991-1995 -- The Vietcong in the Second Indochina War, 1965-1968 -- Conclusion and implications.
330   $a"Armed nonstate actors have received increasing attention since September 11th, 2001, both from scholars and from policy makers and soldiers--and with this attention has come a vibrant debate about whether nonstate civil warfare and insurgency is the future of war, and if so, how it should be countered. Yet underlying these debates is one crucial shared assumption: that states and nonstate actors fight very differently. Biddle upturns this distinction in How Nonstate Actors Fight, examining actual military methods to show that many nonstate actors now fight more "conventionally" than many states. Rather than a dichotomy, Biddle frames nonstate and state methods along a continuum and presents a systematic theory to explain any given nonstate actor's position on this spectrum. His theory emphasizes how actors' internal politics - especially their institutional maturity and war aims - determine their military choices. In doing so, Biddle bridges to largely opposing groups of scholarship: materialists who assume that material and structural constraints will lead nonstates to prefer irregular warfare, and culturalists who see nonstate warmaking as connected to social norms. Biddle integrates both materialist and cultural considerations into this theory, but emphasizes internal politics as the chief determinant of how any actor will fight. The first four chapters present Biddle's theory, and the next five test is across a range of historical examples, from Lebanon to Iraq to Somalia to Croatia to the Vietcong"--$cProvided by publisher.
606   $aAsymmetric warfare$vCase studies
610   $aAdmiral Jonathan Howe.
610   $aAndrea Dew.
610   $aCroatian Wars of Independence.
610   $aFabian.
610   $aHV.
610   $aHezbollah.
610   $aInsurgents, Terrorists and Militias.
610   $aJAM.
610   $aJaish al-Mahdi.
610   $aMilitias.
610   $aNapoleonic.
610   $aSNA.
610   $aSVK.
610   $aSecond Indochina War.
610   $aSeth Jones.
610   $aSomali National Alliance.
610   $aStathis Kalyvas.
610   $aThe Logic of Violence in Civil Warfare.
610   $aWaging Insurgent Warfare.
610   $aZNG.
610   $aasymmetric.
610   $acollective action dilemmas.
610   $aguerillas.
610   $ainternal political determinants.
610   $aintrastate.
610   $amaterial incentives.
610   $amaterial inferiority.
610   $amaterialist theories.
610   $amidspectrum warfare.
610   $aspecialist subunits.
610   $atribal culture.
610   $awarfighting.
610   $awarlords.
615  0$aAsymmetric warfare
676   $a355.42
700   $aBiddle$b Stephen D.$01219681
712 02$aCouncil on Foreign Relations.
801  0$bMiAaPQ
801  1$bMiAaPQ
801  2$bUtOrBLW
906   $aBOOK
912   $a9910554241103321
996   $aNonstate warfare$92820128
997   $aUNINA