The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands - 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 Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands write by Alexander Statiev. This book was released on 2010-04-19. The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates the Soviet response to nationalist insurgencies between 1944 and 1953 in the regions the Soviet Union annexed after the Nazi-Soviet pact.
Dirty Wars
Dirty Wars - 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 Dirty Wars write by Simon Robbins. This book was released on 2016-10-06. Dirty Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘Who is the enemy?’ This is the question most asked in modern warfare; gone are the set-piece conventional battles of the past. Once seen as secondary to more traditional conflicts, irregular warfare (as modified and refashioned since the 1990s) now presents a major challenge to the state and the bureaucratic institutions which have dominated the twentieth century, and to the politicians and civil servants who formulate policy.Twenty-first-century conflict is dominated by counterinsurgency operations, where the enemy is almost indistinguishable from innocent civilians. Battles are gunfights in jungles, deserts and streets; winning ‘hearts and minds’ is as important as holding territory. From struggles in South Africa, the Philippines and Ireland to operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Chechnya, this book covers the strategy and doctrine of counterinsurgency, and the factors which ensure whether such operations are successful or not. Recent ignorance of central principles and the emergence of social media, which has shifted the odds in favour of the insurgent, have too often resulted in failure, leaving governments and their security forces embedded in a hostile population, immersed in costly and dangerous nation-building.
The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies
The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies - 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 Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies write by Martin Thomas. This book was released on 2023-11-02. The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "For several decades conflicts within states rather than between them have been the prevalent form of organised political violence worldwide. Most intra-state conflicts since 1945 have originated in insurgencies, not just against incumbent regimes but, more often, against those regimes' external sponsors, whether imperial governments or dominant regional powers. This Handbook focuses on the former group, on the insurgencies and counter-insurgencies fought out as European overseas empires collapsed. Seeking to identify the causal dynamics and violence processes of such violent decolonization, the Handbook will address the most taxing problems in conflict limitation: how to constrain the actions of insurgents and counter-insurgents in asymmetric 'guerrilla wars'; how to mitigate the consequences of proxy involvement in intra-state conflicts; and how to protect civilians in war zones where combatant-non-combatant distinctions have broken down. Underlying these questions is a unifying theme - and a core Handbook objective - the need to recognize the cultural practices of insurgent movements and counter-insurgent forces as a prerequisite to comprehending their violence"--
No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe
No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe - 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 No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe write by Anna Wylegała. This book was released on 2023-03-12. No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on the social voids that were the result of occupation, genocide, mass killings, and population movements in Europe during and after the Second World War. Historians, sociologists, and anthropologists adopt comparative perspectives on those who now lived in ‘cleansed’ borderlands. Its contributors explore local subjectivities of social change through the concept of ‘No Neighbors’ Lands’: How does it feel to wear the dress of your murdered neighbor? How does one get used to friends, colleagues, and neighbors no longer being part of everyday life? How is moral, social, and legal order reinstated after one part of the community participated in the ethnic cleansing of another? How is order restored psychologically in the wake of neighbors watching others being slaughtered by external enemies? This book sheds light on how destroyed European communities, once multi-ethnic and multi-religious, experienced postwar reconstruction, attempted to come to terms with what had happened, and negotiated remembrance. Chapter 7 and 13 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies
Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies - 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 Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies write by Beatrice Heuser. This book was released on 2016-12-24. Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a major new study of the extent to which national mentalities, or 'ways of war', are responsible for 'national styles' of insurgency and counterinsurgency. Leading scholars examine the ways of war of particular insurgent movements, and the standard operational procedures of states and occupation forces to suppress them. Through case studies ranging from British, American and French counterinsurgency to the IRA and the Taliban, they show how 'national styles' evolve, influenced by transnational trends, ideas and practices. They examine whether we can identify a tendency to resort to a particular pattern of fighting and, if so, whether this is dictated by constants such as geography and climate, or by the available options, or else whether there exists a particular 'strategic culture' or 'national style'. Their findings show that 'national style' is not eternal but can undergo fundamental transformations.
