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.
Military Review
Military Review - 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 Military Review write by . This book was released on 2011. Military Review available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Review of Current Military Literature
Review of Current Military Literature - 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 Review of Current Military Literature write by . This book was released on 2011. Review of Current Military Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Professional Journal of the United States Army
Professional Journal of the United States 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 Professional Journal of the United States Army write by . This book was released on 2011. Professional Journal of the United States Army available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
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.
