Gangs and the Military - 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 Gangs and the Military write by Carter F. Smith. This book was released on 2019-09-20. Gangs and the Military available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the past several decades, there has been a continuous and growing focus on street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs, and domestic extremist groups. Many of these groups have members with military training, and some actively recruit from current and former military veterans and retirees. That military experience adds to the dangerousness of veteran gang members, as well as those groups they associate with. Communities everywhere are experiencing the damaging impact of gang criminal behavior. By observing gang activity from the Revolutionary War to today Smith examines the presence of military-trained, often veteran, gang members in the communities. He looks at the turning points in gang investigations in the military, and also looks at the laws and policies designed to specifically counter the criminal activity the threats of gang activity pose on a community. Grounded in current knowledge and research, Gangs and the Military successfully addresses the growing presence of criminal gang members in the United States. As well as reflects on how the authorities that counter and combat them are doing so on a national and global level.
Irregular Army
Irregular Army - 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 Irregular Army write by Matt Kennard. This book was released on 2012-09-17. Irregular Army available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars—now the longest wars in American history—the US military has struggled to recruit troops. It has responded, as Matt Kennard’s explosive investigative report makes clear, by opening its doors to neo-Nazis, white supremacists, gang members, criminals of all stripes, the overweight, and the mentally ill. Based on several years of reporting, Irregular Army includes extensive interviews with extremist veterans and leaders of far-right hate groups—who spoke openly of their eagerness to have their followers acquire military training for a coming domestic race war. As a report commissioned by the Department of Defense itself put it, “Effectively, the military has a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy pertaining to extremism.” Irregular Army connects some of the War on Terror’s worst crimes to this opening-up of the US military. With millions of veterans now back in the US and domestic extremism on the rise, Kennard’s book is a stark warning about potential dangers facing Americans—from their own soldiers.
American Soldier, Gangs in the Military
American Soldier, Gangs in the Military - 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 American Soldier, Gangs in the Military write by Stanislav A. Sazonov. This book was released on 2011. American Soldier, Gangs in the Military available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The primary reason for gang members' ability to join the military was recruiter's inability to effectively identify gang members as many of them lied about their gang history.
Gangs, Pseudo-Militaries, and Other Modern Mercenaries
Gangs, Pseudo-Militaries, and Other Modern Mercenaries - 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 Gangs, Pseudo-Militaries, and Other Modern Mercenaries write by Max G. Manwaring. This book was released on 2012-10-11. Gangs, Pseudo-Militaries, and Other Modern Mercenaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the first decade of the twenty-first century has made brutally clear, the very definitions of war and the enemy have changed almost beyond recognition. Threats to security are now as likely to come from armed propagandists, popular militias, or mercenary organizations as they are from conventional armies backed by nation-states. In this timely book, national security expert Max G. Manwaring explores a little-understood actor on the stage of irregular warfare—the gang. Since the end of the Cold War, some one hundred insurgencies or irregular wars have erupted throughout the world. Gangs have figured prominently in more than half of those conflicts, yet these and other nonstate actors have received little focused attention from scholars or analysts. This book fills that void. Employing a case study approach, and believing that shadows from the past often portend the future, Manwaring begins with a careful consideration of the writings of V. I. Lenin. He then scrutinizes the Piqueteros in Argentina, gangs in Colombia, private armies in Mexico, Hugo Chavez’s use of popular militias in Venezuela, and the looming threat of Al Qaeda in Western Europe. As conventional warfare is increasingly eclipsed by these irregular and “uncomfortable” wars, Manwaring boldly diagnoses the problem and recommends solutions that policymakers should heed.
Street Gangs
Street Gangs - 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 Street Gangs write by Max G. Manwaring. This book was released on 2005. Street Gangs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The primary thrust of the monograph is to explain the linkage of contemporary criminal street gangs (that is, the gang phenomenon or third generation gangs) to insurgency in terms f the instability it wreaks upon government and the concomitant challenge to state sovereignty. Although there are differences between gangs and insurgents regarding motives and modes of operations, this linkage infers that gang phenomena are mutated forms of urban insurgency. In these terms, these "new" nonstate actors must eventually seize political power in order to guarantee the freedom of action and the commercial environment they want. The common denominator that clearly links the gang phenomenon to insurgency is that the third generation gangs' and insurgents' ultimate objective is to depose or control the governments of targeted countries. As a consequence, the "Duck Analogy" applies. Third generation gangs look like ducks, walk like ducks, and act like ducks - a peculiar breed, but ducks nevertheless! This monograph concludes with recommendations for the United States and other countries to focus security and assistance responses at the strategic level. The intent is to help leaders achieve strategic clarity and operate more effectively in the complex politically dominated, contemporary global security arena.
