Winning wars amongst the people case studies in asymmetric conflict
Since the end of World War II a paradigm shift has occurred in armed conflict. Asymmetric, or fourth-generation warfare-the challenge of nonstate belligerents to the authority and power of the state-has become the dominant form of conflict, while interstate conventional war has become an increasingl...
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[Lincoln, Nebraska]
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: a gap to fill
- A paradigm shift in warfare
- Intrastate conflict: the new security challenge
- A new paradigm of war: generations in warfare and wars amongst the people
- Roots of the paradigm shift: social, political, and economic developments
- The cases
- Rhodesia, 1962-1980: tactical success, operational, strategic, and political failure
- Punjab, 1980-1994: a counterinsurgency model for europe
- Kosovo, 1996-1999: a spectacular success of asymmetric warfare
- France, 2005: the first act of a religious and ethnic insurgency
- Preparing for future conflict
- The nature of the challenge: general characteristics of asymmetric conflicts
- Hungary, 2012 and after: preparations to meet the challenge
- Conclusion: the price of failure.