Nonstate warfare : the military methods of guerillas, warlords, and militias / / Stephen Biddle

• Autore: Biddle Stephen D.
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource)
• Disciplina: 355.42
• Soggetto topico: Asymmetric warfare
• Soggetto non controllato: Admiral Jonathan Howe; Andrea Dew; Croatian Wars of Independence; Fabian; HV; Hezbollah; Insurgents, Terrorists and Militias; JAM; Jaish al-Mahdi; Militias; Napoleonic; SNA; SVK; Second Indochina War; Seth Jones; Somali National Alliance; Stathis Kalyvas; The Logic of Violence in Civil Warfare; Waging Insurgent Warfare; ZNG; asymmetric; collective action dilemmas; guerillas; internal political determinants; intrastate; material incentives; material inferiority; materialist theories; midspectrum warfare; specialist subunits; tribal culture; warfighting; warlords
• Note generali: "A Council on Foreign Relations book."
• Nota di contenuto: The 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Nonstate warfare
• ISBN: 0-691-21666-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910554241103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II