Suicide warfare : culture, the military, and the individual as a weapon / Rosemarie Skaine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skaine, Rosemarie.

Series:

Praeger Security International

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kamikaze airplanes.

Suicide bombings.

Suicide--Political aspects.

Suicide.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Suicide warfare has expanded over the years and become a global phenomenon. In some parts of the world, it has become rooted in the fabric of society. Westerners often find it difficult to grasp why someone would be willing to sacrifice their life in order to take the lives of others. Suicide Warfare: Culture, the Military, and the Individual as a Weapon provides a thorough examination of the topic that enables readers to understand the justification for suicide warfare and better appreciate how the ideology of the individuals and organizations that resort to suicide warfare greatly complicates security issues in the 21st century.The book covers the policies, strategies, and effects of suicide in war, examining suicide warfare in its entirety from a theoretical standpoint, and then applying those theories to the actual manifestations of and politico-military responses to suicide warfare. The author discusses specific organizations such as Al Qaeda and the Chechen rebels, analyzing each within its societal context, military justification, individual motivation, and outcomes, and addresses principles of sociological and conflict theory to place suicide warfare in a clearer conceptual framework. The book presents case studies that allow readers to better understand abstract theories and make distinctions between individual cases of suicide warfare.

Contents:

Theoretical analysis of suicide warfare

Defining suicide warfare

Suicide warfare in modern conflicts

Suicide and policies of war

Strategies of suicide warfare

Effects of suicide warfare

Case studies

Japan's kamikaze pilots

Hezbollah and Palestinian conflicts with Israel

Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers

Chechen separatists

Al Qaeda

Conclusion: Suicide as a weapon in war

Appendix: Documents

A. President George W. Bush, national security strategy, pre-emptive self defense, "The Bush Doctrine"

B. President Barack Obama acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, Norway, December 10, 2009, "Just War" - excerpt

Al Qaeda's seven stages plan

Chechen separatist note of demands to President Putin, August 30, 2004

E. The killing of Osama bin Laden

F. Osama bin Laden's Last Letter, Late May 2010, to Shaykh Mahmud ("Atiyya") - Excerpt.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798216021285

9798216151548

9780313398650

0313398658

OCLC:

879022139