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Nonstate Warfare : The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias /

"Armed nonstate actors have received increasing attention since September 11th, 2001, both from scholars and from policy makers and soldiers--and with this attention has come a vibrant debate about whether nonstate civil warfare and insurgency is the future of war, and if so, how it should be c...

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Autor principal: Biddle, Stephen D. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: Council on Foreign Relations
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a The fallacy of guerilla warfare -- Materially optimal behavior -- Politically achievable behavior -- Hezbollah in the 2006 Lebanon Campaign -- The Jaish al Mahdi in Iraq, 2003-2008 -- The Somali National Alliance in Somalia, 1992-1994 -- The ZNG, HV, and SVK in the Croatian Wars of Independence, 1991-1995 -- The Vietcong in the Second Indochina War, 1965-1968 -- Conclusion and implications. 
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