img Leseprobe Leseprobe

Nonstate Warfare

The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias

Stephen Biddle

EPUB
ca. 29,99
Amazon iTunes Thalia.de Weltbild.de Hugendubel Bücher.de ebook.de kobo Osiander Google Books Barnes&Noble bol.com Legimi yourbook.shop Kulturkaufhaus ebooks-center.de
* Affiliatelinks/Werbelinks
Hinweis: Affiliatelinks/Werbelinks
Links auf reinlesen.de sind sogenannte Affiliate-Links. Wenn du auf so einen Affiliate-Link klickst und über diesen Link einkaufst, bekommt reinlesen.de von dem betreffenden Online-Shop oder Anbieter eine Provision. Für dich verändert sich der Preis nicht.

Princeton University Press img Link Publisher

Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Politikwissenschaft

Beschreibung

How nonstate military strategies overturn traditional perspectives on warfare

Since September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion from scholars, policymakers, and the military. Underlying debates about nonstate warfare and how it should be countered is one crucial assumption: that state and nonstate actors fight very differently. In Nonstate Warfare, Stephen Biddle upturns this distinction, arguing that there is actually nothing intrinsic separating state or nonstate military behavior. Through an in-depth look at nonstate military conduct, Biddle shows that many nonstate armies now fight more "conventionally" than many state armies, and that the internal politics of nonstate actors—their institutional maturity and wartime stakes rather than their material weapons or equipment—determines tactics and strategies.

Biddle frames nonstate and state methods along a continuum, spanning Fabian-style irregular warfare to Napoleonic-style warfare involving massed armies, and he presents a systematic theory to explain any given nonstate actor’s position on this spectrum. Showing that most warfare for at least a century has kept to the blended middle of the spectrum, Biddle argues that material and tribal culture explanations for nonstate warfare methods do not adequately explain observed patterns of warmaking. Investigating a range of historical examples from Lebanon and Iraq to Somalia, Croatia, and the Vietcong, Biddle demonstrates that viewing state and nonstate warfighting as mutually exclusive can lead to errors in policy and scholarship.

A comprehensive account of combat methods and military rationale, Nonstate Warfare offers a new understanding for wartime military behavior.

Weitere Titel von diesem Autor
Stephen Biddle

Kundenbewertungen

Schlagwörter

Counterattack, Counter-insurgency, Prediction, Assassination, Surface-to-air missile, World War II, Hybrid warfare, Tribe, United States Armed Forces, Military organization, Viet Cong, Mortar (weapon), Armoured fighting vehicle, Fabian strategy, Tribalism, Technology, Great power, Gulf War, Aircraft, Maginot Line, Land mine, War, Ammunition, Conventional warfare, Booby trap, Combatant, Case study, Napoleon, Materiel, Assault rifle, Superiority (short story), Artillery, Operation Goodwood, Politics, 9M133 Kornet, Disadvantage, Military campaign, Military doctrine, Trade-off, Natural order (philosophy), Saddam Hussein, Territorial Defense (Yugoslavia), Global catastrophic risk, Army, Improvised explosive device, Anti-tank missile, Military tactics, Urban warfare, Logistics, Troop, Civilian, Infantry, Insurgency, Somalia, Multi-National Force – Iraq, Combined arms, Requirement, Military technology, Weapon, Military, Irregular warfare, Institution, Croatia, Napoleonic tactics, Body armor, Combat, Reconnaissance, Warfare, Suppressive fire, Lethality