Nonstate Warfare (eBook)

The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias

Stephen Biddle (Autor)

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2021
464 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21665-2 (ISBN)

Infos

How nonstate military strategies overturn traditional perspectives on warfareSince 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 "e;conventionally"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.4.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 16 b&w illus. 6 tables. 7 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: 2006 Lebanon War • 9M133 Kornet • Admiral Jonathan Howe • Aircraft • Al-Qaeda • Ammunition • Andrea Dew • Anti-tank missile • armoured fighting vehicle • Army • artillery • assassination • assault rifle • Asymmetric • Battle • BGM-71 TOW • Body Armor • booby trap • Capability • Case Method • Case study • civilian • collective action dilemmas • combat • Combatant • Combined arms • conventional warfare • counterattack • Counter-Insurgency • Croatia • Croatian Wars of Independence • defection • detection • disadvantage • Effectiveness • Fabian • Fabian strategy • Field of fire (weaponry) • Foreign policy of the United States • Frontal assault • global catastrophic risk • Great Power • Guerillas • Gulf War • Hezbollah • HV • Hybrid Warfare • Improvised Explosive Device • infantry • Institution • Insurgency • Insurgents, Terrorists and Militias • internal conflict • internal political determinants • intrastate • iraqi army • Irregular warfare • Jaish al-Mahdi • JAM • Land mine • lethality • logistics • M1 Abrams • maginot line • Marines • material incentives • material inferiority • materialist theories • Materiel • midspectrum warfare • Military • military campaign • military doctrine • military occupation • Military Operation • Military organization • Military tactics • Military Technology • militias • Mortar (weapon) • Multi-National Force – Iraq • Muqtada al-Sadr • Napoleon • Napoleonic • Napoleonic tactics • Natural order (philosophy) • obstacle • occupation of japan • Operation Goodwood • Politics • Prediction • Quantity • Reconnaissance • Requirement • Saddam Hussein • sadr city • second indochina war • Seth Jones • SNA • Somalia • Somali National Alliance • specialist subunits • state actor • Stathis Kalyvas • strategic bombing • Superiority (short story) • Suppressive fire • Surface-to-air missile • survivability • SVK • Technology • Territorial Defense (Yugoslavia) • terrorism • The Logic of Violence in Civil Warfare • Trade-off • Tribal culture • Tribalism • Tribe • troop • United States Armed Forces • Urban Warfare • Viet Cong • Vietnam War • vulnerability • Waging Insurgent Warfare • war • war effort • warfare • Warfighting • Warlords • Weapon • World War II • ZNG
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21665-7 / 0691216657
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21665-2 / 9780691216652