| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 467 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part 1 History and Armed Groups -- Pirates, Vikings, and Teutonic Knights / Peter T. Underwood 17 -- The Italian Red Brigades (1969-1984): Political Revolution and Threats to the State / Paul J. Smith 28 -- Armed Conflict in Cambodia and the UN Response / Carole Garrison 42 -- Armed Groups and Diplomacy: East Timor's Fretilin Guerrillas / Gene Christy 47 -- Adapting to a Changing Environment-The Irish Republican Army as an Armed Group / Timothy D. Hoyt 59 -- Pseudo Operations-A Double-Edged Sword of Counterinsurgency / Theodore L. Gatchel 72 -- Part 2 Present Context and Environment -- The Threat to the Maritime Domain: How Real Is the Terrorist Threat? / Rohan Gunaratna 87 -- Armed Groups and the Law / Craig H. Allen 98 -- Globalization and the Transformation of Armed Groups / Querine H. Hanlon 124 -- Is It Possible to Deter Armed Groups? / Yosef Kuperwasser 135 -- Sanctuary: The Geopolitics of Terrorism and Insurgency / Mackubin Thomas Owens 142 -- Small Wars Are Local: Questioning Assumptions about Armed Groups / Peter Curry 156 -- Piracy and the Exploitation of Sanctuary / Martin N. Murphy 166 -- Domestic Terrorism: Forgotten, But Not Gone / Edward J. Valla, Gregory Comcowich 177 -- The Threat of Armed Street Gangs in America / Edward J. Maggio 193 -- Prosecuting Homegrown Extremists: Case Study of the Virginia "Paintball Jihad" Cell / Steven Emerson 205 -- Part 3 Religion as Inspiration -- Armed with the Power of Religion: Not Just a War of Ideas / Pauletta Otis 219 -- Arming for Armageddon: Myths and Motivations of Violence In American Christian Apocalypticism / Timothy J. Demy 229 -- Glory in Defeat and Other Islamist Ideologies / Mehrdad Mozayyan 240 -- Part 4 Thinking Differently about Armed Groups -- The Erosion of Constraints in Armed-Group Warfare: Bloody Tactics and Vulnerable Targets / Andrea J. Dew 259 -- Knowledge Transfer and Shared Learning among Armed Groups / James J.F. Forest 273 -- The "Memory of War": Tribes and the Legitimate Use of Force in Iraq / Montgomery McFate 292 -- Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? Tyrant or Guardian? / Derek S. Reveron, Jeffrey Stevenson Murer 311 -- Disrupting and Influencing Leaders of Armed Groups / Elena Mastors, Jeffrey H. Norwitz 323 -- Armed Groups through the Lens of Anthropology / David W. Kriebel 341 -- Part 5 The Shape of Things to Come -- Children on the Battlefield: The Breakdown of Moral Norms / P.W. Singer 355 -- The "New Silk Road" of Terrorism and Organized Crime: The Key to Countering the Terror-Crime Nexus / Russell D. Howard, Colleen M. Traughber 368 -- Shari'a Financing and the Coming Ummah / Rachel Ehrenfeld, Alyssa A. Lappen 385 -- Terrorism as an International Security Problem / Martha Crenshaw 401 -- Takin' It to the Streets: Hydra Networks, Chaos Strategies, and the "New" Asymmetry / P.H. Liotta 414 -- Virtual Sanctuary Enables Global Insurgency / Richard Shultz 425 -- Armed Groups: Changing the Rules / T.X. Hammes 441 -- Appendix -- United Nations Guidelines on Humanitarian Negotiations with Armed Groups / Gerard Mc Hugh, Manuel Bessler 451 |
| Summary |
Pirates, warlords, guerillas, criminal organizations, drug cartels, apocalyptic religious extremists, police agencies, terrorists: these are classic insurgents whose past, present, and future is dissected in this important book. Contributing writers including Martha Crenshaw, T.X. Hammes, Russell Howard, Gene Cristy, Yosef Kuperwasser, and academics from Naval War College, Marine Corps War College, and Stanford University, explore important insurgency-related issues such as domestic terrorism, globalization of armed groups, children on the battlefield, religious influence on armed fights, and more. This rich anthology offers scholars and citizens a new way to think about national and international security?as it stands today, and its future |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Insurgency -- History.
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Terrorism -- History.
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Terrorists -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Norwitz, Jeffrey H.
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| ISBN |
1602397082 (electronic bk.) |
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1626369879 |
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9781602397088 (electronic bk.) |
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9781626369870 |
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