The complexity of modern asymmetric warfare

Today more than one hundred small, asymmetric, and revolutionary wars are being waged around the world. This book provides invaluable tools for fighting such wars by taking enemy perspectives into consideration. The challenge presented to civilian and military leaders is to take probable enemy persp...

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Main Author: Manwaring, Max G. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Norman, OK University of Oklahoma Press 2012
Series:International security affairs volume 8
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Table of Contents:
  • Salient antecedents to the present array of conflicts : Algeria (1954-1962) and El Salvador (1980-1992)
  • New "kinder and gentler" revolutionary lessons from Peru : the resurgence of Sendero Luminoso
  • Four Trojan horses of different colors : vignettes from Al Qaeda in Spain, the Cuban popular militias, Haiti, and Brazil
  • State-supported internal and external persuasion and coercion : the Russian youth group Nashi
  • Guatemala at risk: drug, thugs, and radical political change
  • Traumatic attacks at another level : cyber and biological war
  • The road ahead