LEADER 03521oam 2200421Ia 450 001 9910694330403321 005 20080618130826.0 035 $a(CKB)5470000002362752 035 $a(OCoLC)172985954 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000002362752 100 $a20070918d2007 ua 0 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLatin America's new security reality$b[electronic resource] $eirregular asymmetric conflict and Hugo Chavez /$fMax G. Manwaring 210 1$a[Carlisle Barracks, PA] :$c[Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College],$d[2007] 215 $avii, 62 pages $cdigital, PDF file 300 $aTitle from title screen (viewed on Sept. 4, 2007). 300 $a"August 2007." 311 $a1-58487-303-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 52-62). 327 $a4GW challenges: broadening the concepts of threat and conflict -- The transformation and broadening of the notion of conflict -- Implications: Latin America security and sovereignty under seige -- Rethinking threat and response: moving from a military to a populace-oriented conflict model -- What must be done-first. 330 $aIn 2005, Dr. Manwaring wrote a monograph entitled Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Bolivarian Socialism, and Asymmetric Warfare. It came at a time when the United States and Venezuela were accelerating a verbal sparing match regarding which country was destabilizing Latin America more. President Chavez shows no sign of standing down; he slowly and deliberately centralizes his power in Venezuela, and carefully and adroitly articulates his Bolivarian dream (the idea of a Latin American Liberation Movement against U.S. economic and political imperialism). Yet, most North Americans dismiss Chavez as a "nut case," or--even if he is a threat to the security and stability of the Hemisphere--the possibilities of that threat coming to fruition are too far into the future to worry about. Dr. Manwaring's intent is to explain in greater depth what President Chavez is doing and how he is doing it. First, he explains that Hugo Chavez's threat is straightforward, and that it is being translated into a consistent, subtle, ambiguous, and ambitious struggle for power that is beginning to insinuate itself into political life in much of the Western Hemisphere. Second, he shows how President Chavez is encouraging his Venezuelan and other followers to pursue a confrontational, populist, and nationalistic agenda that will be achieved only by (1) radically changing the traditional politics of the Venezuelan state--and other Latin American states--to that of "direct" (totalitarian) democracy; (2) destroying North American hegemony throughout all of Latin America by conducting an irregular Fourth-Generation War "Super Insurgency"; and, (3) country-by-country, building a great new Bolivarian state out of a phased Program for the Liberation of Latin America. 517 $aLatin America's new security reality 606 $aAsymmetric warfare$zLatin America 607 $aUnited States$xRelations$zLatin America 607 $aLatin America$xRelations$zUnited States 615 0$aAsymmetric warfare 700 $aManwaring$b Max G$01169290 712 02$aArmy War College (U.S.).$bStrategic Studies Institute. 801 0$bSNM 801 1$bSNM 801 2$bGPO 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910694330403321 996 $aLatin America's new security reality$93518042 997 $aUNINA