UID:
almafu_9960117767802883
Umfang:
1 online resource (ix, 388 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-71904-9
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1-316-72324-0
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1-316-47136-5
Inhalt:
This book is a major new study of the extent to which national mentalities, or 'ways of war', are responsible for 'national styles' of insurgency and counterinsurgency. Leading scholars examine the ways of war of particular insurgent movements, and the standard operational procedures of states and occupation forces to suppress them. Through case studies ranging from British, American and French counterinsurgency to the IRA and the Taliban, they show how 'national styles' evolve, influenced by transnational trends, ideas and practices. They examine whether we can identify a tendency to resort to a particular pattern of fighting and, if so, whether this is dictated by constants such as geography and climate, or by the available options, or else whether there exists a particular 'strategic culture' or 'national style'. Their findings show that 'national style' is not eternal but can undergo fundamental transformations.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jan 2017).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: National Styles and Strategic Culture -- Ways of War and 'National' Style -- National Peculiarities -- Strategic Culture, National Style and Mentality -- The Limits of Strategic Culture -- Is There a Toolbox for Insurgents and Counterinsurgents? -- Benign Tools -- The Approach Taken in This Volume -- Part I COIN Strategies -- 2 True to Form? Questioning the British Counterinsurgency Tradition -- Untangling the Narrative -- Deconstructing the British Tradition -- An Inconsistent Approach -- Learning from Successes -- A Military Approach? -- An Eye to Context -- Myths Come Home to Roost: Basra, Helmand and the Demise of a Tradition -- Conclusion: The Dangers of Myths -- 3 French Counterinsurgency in the Era of the Algerian Wars, 1830-1962 -- Conflict Typology: Comparing Two French COIN Campaigns in Algeria -- The French Colonial Approach to COIN in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- From a Failure to Develop a Doctrine to Defeat in Indochina -- The French Approach to the War of Decolonization in Algeria -- Highs and Lows of Two Victories: Normative Dimension -- Resilience at What Cost and for How Long? -- Conclusion -- Epilogue Post-Algeria: COIN-Type 'guerres africaines', or the New 'OPEX' -- 4 Russian Counterinsurgency in Perspective -- Introduction -- Elements of the Russian Tradition -- The Indirect Approach in Historical Perspective -- Learning in Chechnya -- The North Caucasus Quagmire -- Conclusion -- 5 Crackdown: Insurgency, Potential Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Modern China -- Introduction -- Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Nineteenth-Century China -- Counterinsurgency without Insurgency in Contemporary China -- Conclusion.
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6 You Go to COIN with the Military You Have: The United States and 250 Years of Irregular War -- Regular Even in Revolution-The Origins of American Conventionality in War -- Adapting the Regular Army for the Irregular - the Indian Wars (1790-1891) -- Expeditionary COIN - The Philippine War (1899-1902) -- Back to Conventionality: The Post-World War I US Military (1918-2006) -- America in Vietnam (1945-1975)61 -- No More Vietnams (1975-2006) -- Twenty-first-Century US COIN (2006-?) -- Relearning COIN after 'Winning' in Afghanistan and Iraq -- The Twenty-first-Century US COIN Toolkit -- Measuring Success -- Has US COIN Become More Humane? -- The US Style and Strategic Culture -- 7 From Fighting 'Francs-Tireurs' to Genocide: German Counterinsurgency in the Second World War -- Forging the 'Franc-Tireur Myth' - The Prehistory of German Responses to Insurgencies -- Poland -- The Soviet Union -- Yugoslavia -- Greece -- France -- Italy -- Conclusion -- 8 Israel's Counterinsurgency Experience -- Intercommunal Conflict (1920-1948) -- Infiltration and Retaliation, 1948-1967 -- Low-Intensity Conflict, 1967-2000 -- 'Mowing the Grass' of Armed Non-State Organisations, 2000-201329 -- The Second Intifada (2000-2005) -- The Second Lebanon War (2006) -- Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009) -- Operation Pillar of Defence (2012) -- Operation Protective Edge (Summer 2014) -- Conclusion -- Part II Insurgency Strategies -- 9 National Liberation, Algerian 'Style'? -- General Conditions -- Historical Continuity? -- Objectives and Ideology -- The Military Apparatus -- Technology -- Strategy -- Central Organisation -- Urban Strategy -- Rural Strategy -- The Border Army -- Ideology and Violence -- Conclusion -- 10 Irish Republican Insurgency and Terrorism, 1969-2007 -- Terminology -- Historical Background -- The 'Troubles', 1970-1998 -- Similarities to Other Insurgencies.
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Peculiarities of the Irish Case -- Conclusion -- 11 The Evolution of the Palestinian Resistance -- The Concept of Resistance -- Resistance Typology -- (1) The Type and Characteristics of Actors Involved in Resistance -- (2) The Historical Experience and Friction with the Opponent -- (3) Geographical and Physical Features -- (4) New Technology -- The Historical Development of Palestinian Resistance -- (1) From the Late 1950s to the Late 1980s -- (2) From the Late 1980s until 2010 -- (3) From 2010 until 2014 -- The 'Palestinian Resistance' and the 'Arab Spring' -- Conclusion -- 12 The Taliban -- Popular Support -- What Are Taliban Characteristics? -- Terror and Discipline -- Strengths and Weaknesses of the Taliban since 2013 -- Strategy, Victory and Defeat -- Conclusion -- Part III Interaction -- 13 Guerrilla and Counter-Guerrilla Greece: Tradition and Change -- The Guerrilla Tradition in Greece -- The First Modest Deviation from the Guerrilla Tradition -- The Radical Deviation: The Communist Insurgency in the Greek Civil War -- Resurrecting ELAS? -- The Socialist Revolution - Discarding the Kleftopolemos -- The Tradition of 'Anti-Banditry Campaigns' -- The Critical Rupture: Counterinsurgency in the Greek Civil War -- Business as Usual -- The First Phase of COIN -- The Second Phase of COIN -- Tradition Cast Aside -- 14 Syria: Insurrection and Suppression 2011-2016 -- The Struggle for Syria -- The Arab Spring Reaches Syria -- From Protest to Revolution and from Revolution to Civil War -- A False Turning Point -- War of Annihilation -- Syria as a Regional and International Arena of Conflict -- The Military Dimension of the Struggle for Syria -- Conclusion: From One Insurgency to Many -- 15 Beyond National Styles: Towards a Connected History of Cold War Counterinsurgency -- Introduction -- The Birth of a Strategic Community (1944-1954).
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The British Crucible of Special Warfare -- From Guerrillas to Counter-Guerrillas -- Countering Communist Subversion in Europe -- Southeast Asia - A Laboratory for Irregular Warfare (1949-1959) -- Facing the Maoist Strategic Revolution -- A Regional Cross-Learning Process -- Theorisation and Globalisation of the Strategic Knowledge (1955-1965) -- America in Search of Strategic Inspiration -- A Network-Centric Circulation and Learning Process -- Conclusion: The Limits to Strategic Cosmopolitanism -- 16 Universal Toolbox, National Styles or Divergence of Civilisations? -- The Toolbox -- Brutal Large-Scale Repression, Indiscriminate Killing and Terror -- Burning Villages and 'Scorched Earth' Tactics -- Rounding Up and Executing Leaders: Targeted Assassinations -- Mutilations and Rape -- Hostage Taking and Hostage Executions -- Forced Population Transfers ('Ethnic Cleansing') -- Quadrillage versus External Sanctuaries and External Support -- Destruction of Symbolic Buildings or Sites -- 'Bands', 'Counter-Bands' and 'Bandit-Hunters' -- Ensuring Survival of the Insurgency -- Winning over the Population -- Exit Strategies and Long-Term Commitments -- The Choice of Tools: Evidence of a Particular 'Style'? -- General Tools and Culture-Specific Tools -- Styles Can Change -- Have All Sides Become More Humane? -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-316-50100-0
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-107-13504-4
Sprache:
Englisch
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316471364
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