Old and new insurgency forms / Robert J. Bunker.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Bunker, Robert J., author.

Contributor:

Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute, issuing body.

Army War College (U.S.). Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insurgency--Classification.

Insurgency.

Insurgency--History.

Insurgency--Forecasting.

United States--Military policy.

United States.

Military policy.

Genre:

Online resources.

Classification

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 76 pages)

Place of Publication:

Carlisle Barracks, PA : Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

"This monograph creates a proposed insurgency typology divided into legacy, contemporary, and emergent and potential insurgency forms, and provides strategic implications for U.S. defense policy as they relate to each of these forms. The typology clusters, insurgency forms identified, and their starting dates are as follows, Legacy: Anarchist (1880s), Separatist -- Internal and External (1920s), Maoist Peoples (1930s), and Urban Left (Late-1960s); Contemporary: Radical Islamist (1979), Liberal Democratic (1989), Criminal (Early 2000s), and Plutocratic (2008); and Emergent and Potential: Blood Cultist (Emergent), Chinese Authoritarianism (Potentials; Near to Midterm), and Cyborg and Spiritual Machine (Potentials; Long Term/Science Fiction-like). The most significant strategic implications of these forms for U.S. defense policy are derived from the contemporary Radical Islamist form followed by the contemporary Criminal and emergent Blood Cultist forms. If the potential Chinese Authoritarianism form should come to pass it would also result in significant strategic impacts"--Publisher's web site.

Contents:

Defining insurgency

Terrorism as insurgency I & W

Review of insurgency typologies

Proposed insurgency typology

Legacy insurgency forms

Contemporary insurgency forms

Emergent and potential insurgency forms

Strategic implications for U.S. defense policy.

Notes:

"March 2016."

Print version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-76).

Online resource, PDF version; title from PDF title page (SSI, viewed March 16, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version: Bunker, Robert J. Old and new insurgency forms.

OCLC:

944899325