Modern stateless warfare / Paul Brooker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooker, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insurgency.

Guerrilla warfare.

Terrorism.

Asymmetric warfare.

Physical Description:

vii, 256 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Summary:

"This book focuses on insurgent stateless warfare in its guerrilla and terrorist modes and in its nationalist, maoist and postmaoist phases of modernisation. Insurgency is compared with states warfare and with criminality and then insurgents motive, means and opportunity are analysed from social-science, military and environmental perspectives"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: IntroductionPART I: INSURGENT STATELESS WARFAREModernisation and Modes The Types and Nature of InsurgencyComparisons with States Warfare Comparisons with States Terroristic Warfare Comparisons with Criminality PART II: THE CALCULUS OF INSURGENCY: MOTIVE, MEANS AND OPPORTUNITYThe Motives of Insurgency The Means of Insurgency Opportunity: the External Environments The Political and Military Environments The Social-Political EnvironmentConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex IntroductionPART I: INSURGENT STATELESS WARFAREModernisation and Modes The Types and Nature of InsurgencyComparisons with States Warfare Comparisons with States Terroristic Warfare Comparisons with Criminality PART II: THE CALCULUS OF INSURGENCY: MOTIVE, MEANS AND OPPORTUNITYThe Motives of Insurgency The Means of Insurgency Opportunity: the External Environments The Political and Military Environments The Social-Political EnvironmentConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230211421

0230211429

OCLC:

317926887