Mercenaries in Asymmetric Conflicts - 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 Mercenaries in Asymmetric Conflicts write by Scott Fitzsimmons. This book was released on 2013. Mercenaries in Asymmetric Conflicts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fitzsimmons argues that small mercenary groups must maintain a superior culture to successfully engage and defeat larger and better-equipped opponents.
Mercenaries and War
Mercenaries and War - 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 Mercenaries and War write by National Defense University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-18. Mercenaries and War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mercenaries are more powerful than experts realize, a grave oversight. Those who assume they are cheap imitations of national armed forces invite disaster because for-profit warriors are a wholly different genus and species of fighter. Private military companies such as the Wagner Group are more like heavily armed multinational corporations than the Marine Corps. Their employees are recruited from different countries, and profitability is everything. Patriotism is unimportant, and sometimes a liability. Unsurprisingly, mercenaries do not fight conventionally, and traditional war strategies used against them may backfire.
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.
The Cambridge Handbook of the Just War
The Cambridge Handbook of the Just War - 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 Cambridge Handbook of the Just War write by Larry May. This book was released on 2018-02-15. The Cambridge Handbook of the Just War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive exploration of contemporary debates in Just War Theory, addressing moral, political, and legal issues.
State Control over Private Military and Security Companies in Armed Conflict
State Control over Private Military and Security Companies in Armed Conflict - 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 State Control over Private Military and Security Companies in Armed Conflict write by Hannah Tonkin. This book was released on 2011-08-11. State Control over Private Military and Security Companies in Armed Conflict available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The past two decades have witnessed the rapid proliferation of private military and security companies (PMSCs) in armed conflicts around the world, with PMSCs participating in, for example, offensive combat, prisoner interrogation and the provision of advice and training. The extensive outsourcing of military and security activities has challenged conventional conceptions of the state as the primary holder of coercive power and raised concerns about the reduction in state control over the use of violence. Hannah Tonkin critically analyses the international obligations on three key states - the hiring state, the home state and the host state of a PMSC - and identifies the circumstances in which PMSC misconduct may give rise to state responsibility. This analysis will facilitate the assessment of state responsibility in cases of PMSC misconduct and set standards to guide states in developing their domestic laws and policies on private security.
