Asymmetric Warfare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asymmetric Warfare write by Rod Thornton. This book was released on 2007-02-12. Asymmetric Warfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, the nature of conflict has changed. Through asymmetric warfare radical groups and weak state actors are using unexpected means to deal stunning blows to more powerful opponents in the West. From terrorism to information warfare, the Wests air power, sea power and land power are open to attack from clever, but much weaker, enemies. In this clear and engaging introduction, Rod Thornton unpacks the meaning and significance of asymmetric warfare, in both civilian and military realms, and examines why it has become such an important subject for study. He seeks to provide answers to key questions, such as how weaker opponents apply asymmetric techniques against the Western world, and shows how the Wests military superiority can be seriously undermined by asymmetric threats. The book concludes by looking at the ways in which the US, the state most vulnerable to asymmetric attack, is attempting to cope with some new battlefield realities. This is an indispensable guide to one of the key topics in security studies today.
Asymmetric Warfare in South Asia
Asymmetric Warfare in South Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asymmetric Warfare in South Asia write by Peter R. Lavoy. This book was released on 2009-11-12. Asymmetric Warfare in South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A unique account of military conflict under the shadow of nuclear escalation, with access to the soldiers and politicians involved.
Asymmetrical Warfare
Asymmetrical Warfare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asymmetrical Warfare write by Roger W. Barnett. This book was released on 2003. Asymmetrical Warfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Possible asymmetrical warfare scenarios include launching chemical, biological, or suicide attacks; taking indiscriminate actions against critical infrastructure; using hostages or human shields; deliberately destroying the environment; and targeting noncombatants.".
The Complexity of Modern Asymmetric Warfare
The Complexity of Modern Asymmetric Warfare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Complexity of Modern Asymmetric Warfare write by Max G. Manwaring. This book was released on 2012-09-05. The Complexity of Modern Asymmetric Warfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today more than one hundred small, asymmetric, and revolutionary wars are being waged around the world. This book provides invaluable tools for fighting such wars by taking enemy perspectives into consideration. The third volume of a trilogy by Max G. Manwaring, it continues the arguments the author presented in Insurgency, Terrorism, and Crime and Gangs, Pseudo-Militaries, and Other Modern Mercenaries. Using case studies, Manwaring outlines vital survival lessons for leaders and organizations concerned with national security in our contemporary world. The insurgencies Manwaring describes span the globe. Beginning with conflicts in Algeria in the 1950s and 1960s and El Salvador in the 1980s, he goes on to cover the Shining Path and its resurgence in Peru, Al Qaeda in Spain, popular militias in Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil, the Russian youth group Nashi, and drugs and politics in Guatemala, as well as cyber warfare. Large, wealthy, well-armed nations such as the United States have learned from experience that these small wars and insurgencies do not resemble traditional wars fought between geographically distinct nation-state adversaries by easily identified military forces. Twenty-first-century irregular conflicts blur traditional distinctions among crime, terrorism, subversion, insurgency, militia, mercenary and gang activity, and warfare. Manwaring’s multidimensional paradigm offers military and civilian leaders a much needed blueprint for achieving strategic victories and ensuring global security now and in the future. It combines military and police efforts with politics, diplomacy, economics, psychology, and ethics. The challenge he presents to civilian and military leaders is to take probable enemy perspectives into consideration, and turn resultant conceptions into strategic victories.
Drones and Terrorism
Drones and Terrorism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Drones and Terrorism write by Nicholas Grossman. This book was released on 2018-01-31. Drones and Terrorism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In warzones, ordinary commercially-available drones are used for extraordinary reconnaissance and information gathering. They can also be used for bombings - a drone carrying an explosive charge is potentially a powerful weapon. At the same time asymmetric warfare has become the norm - with large states increasingly fighting marginal terrorist groups in the Middle East and elsewhere. Here, Nicholas Grossman shows how we are entering the age of the drone terrorist - groups such as Hezbollah are already using them in the Middle East. Grossman will analyse the ways in which the United States, Israel and other advanced militaries use aerial drones and ground-based robots to fight non-state actors (e.g. ISIS, al Qaeda, the Iraqi and Afghan insurgencies, Hezbollah, Hamas, etc.) and how these groups, as well as individual terrorists, are utilizing less advanced commercially-available drones to fight powerful state opponents. Robotics has huge implications for the future of security, terrorism and international relations and this will be essential reading on the subject of terrorism and drone warfare.
