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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"irregular warfare"”.
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Dehumanization and irregular warfare
… militaries to influence the center of gravity in irregular warfare, the civilian population. Traditional thought in this matter implies that cultural training is the most important factor in creating more effective influence when dealing in irregular warfare scenarios. By examining dehumanization …
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The United States and irregular warfare 1899-2011
<p>After the United States fought irregular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan the amount of scholarship on the topic of counterinsurgency and guerilla warfare grew at a fast pace. Much of this scholarship has focused on a single conflict, or on several recent conflicts. This thesis took a different …
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The Principle of Destruction in Irregular Warfare: Theory and Practice
… by destroying his forces in battle. However, irregular warfare is commonly assumed to operate through processes that make the principle of destruction irrelevant. An analysis of the writings and military experiences of T.E. Lawrence, Mao Tse-tung and Ernesto "Che” Guevara, three of the 20th …
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Knitting the Velvet Gauntlet: Goldwater-Nichols, the end of the Cold War, and the development of American defense diplomacy
… the United States was engaged in globe-spanning irregular warfare or as part of a drive for global hegemony after the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, this research finds otherwise. A key factor in the development of contemporary defense diplomacy was the suite of institutional changes in …
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COIN through the eyes of Bourdieu: American legitimation practices in Iraq 2007-2009: American legitimation practices in Iraq 2007-2009
… equipment, and personnel policies – to fight the irregular wars that many thought would be the primary security challenge of the 21st century. In Iraq, a model of expeditionary counterinsurgency (COIN) was rediscovered, and the concept of political legitimacy was explicitly placed at the centre of …
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Toward an effective and humane counterinsurgency
Preliminary research isolated a set of thirteen candidate principles that military officers need to understand to conduct effective and humane counterinsurgency. A meta-synthesis of eight classical theorists of counterinsurgency sought support for and consensus on these principles and discovered …
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Understanding Russian Hybrid Warfare: A Comparative Case Study Analysis of Soviet Active Measures and Russian New Generation Warfare
Russian Hybrid Warfare is a popular Western term for contemporary Kremlin operations that directly target adversaries without conventional force. Often described as the mistaken "Gerasimov Doctrine" or "New Generation Warfare," Russian Hybrid Warfare operations utilize unconventional tactics to …
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One way to live : Orde Wingate and the adoption of ‘special forces’ tactics and strategies (1903-1944)
Winston Churchill declared Major-General Orde Wingate ‘a man of genius’ for developing what he considered low-cost, high-risk, and high-leverage operations in three theaters of the Second World War. One Way to Live: Orde Wingate and the adoption of 'special forces' tactics and strategies …