This book focuses on insurgent stateless warfare in its guerrilla and terrorist modes and in its nationalist, maoist and postmaoist phases of modernization. Insurgency is compared with states' warfare and with criminality and then insurgents' motives, means and opportunities are analyzed from social-science, military and environmental perspectives. INDICE: Introduction - PART I: INSURGENT STATELESS WARFARE - Historical Background - The Types and Modes of Insurgency - Insurgent Strategies - Terroristic Warfare and Strategies - Comparisons with Criminality - PART II: THE CALCULUS OF INSURGENCY: MOTIVE, MEANS AND OPPORTUNITY - The Motives of Insurgency -The Means of Insurgency - Opportunity and Environments - The Social-PoliticalEnvironment - Conclusion - Notes - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21142-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha Publicación: 12/02/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés
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- TERRORISMO