Hybrid warfare : fighting complex opponents from the ancient world to the present / Williamson Murray, Peter R. Mansoor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Williamson, author.

Mansoor, Peter R., 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asymmetric warfare.

Asymmetric warfare--History.

Irregular warfare--History.

Irregular warfare.

Military history, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 321 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hybrid warfare has been an integral part of the historical landscape since the ancient world, but only recently have analysts - incorrectly - categorised these conflicts as unique. Great powers throughout history have confronted opponents who used a combination of regular and irregular forces to negate the advantage of the great powers' superior conventional military strength. As this study shows, hybrid wars are labour-intensive and long-term affairs; they are difficult struggles that defy the domestic logic of opinion polls and election cycles. Hybrid wars are also the most likely conflicts of the twenty-first century, as competitors use hybrid forces to wear down America's military capabilities in extended campaigns of exhaustion. Nine historical examples of hybrid warfare, from ancient Rome to the modern world, provide readers with context by clarifying the various aspects of conflicts and examining how great powers have dealt with them in the past.

Contents:

Introduction: Hybrid warfare in history / Peter R. Mansoor

Conquering Germania: a Province too far / James Lacey

Keeping the Irish down and the Spanish out: English strategies of submission in Ireland, 1594-1603 / Wayne E. Lee

The American Revolution: hybrid war in America's past / Williamson Murray

That accursed Spanish War: the Peninsular War, 1807-1814 / Richard Hart Sinnreich

The Union's counterguerrilla war, 1861-1865 / Daniel E. Sutherland

Fighting "this nation of liars to the very end": the German Army in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 / Marcus Jones

Small wars and great games: the British empire and hybrid warfare, 1700-1970 / John Ferris

An unexpected encounter with hybrid warfare: the Japanese experience in North China, 1937-1945 / Noboru Yamaguchi

Hybrid war in Vietnam / Karl Lowe

Conclusion: What the past suggests / Williamson Murray.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-107-23217-1

1-139-50840-7

1-280-77522-X

9786613685612

1-139-51808-9

1-139-51550-0

1-139-19925-0

1-139-51458-X

1-139-51715-5

1-139-51901-8

OCLC:

796383884