Author: Stephen BlankPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781568064369
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Responding to Low-Intensity Conflict Challenges
Author: Stephen BlankPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781568064369
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Responding to Low-intensity Conflict Challenges
Author: Stephen BlankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Responding to Low-intensity Conflict Challenges
Author: Stephen BlankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Responding to Low-Intensity Conflict Challenges
Author: Gordon Press PublishersPublisher:
ISBN: 9780849075520
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Responding to Low-intensity Conflict Challenges : Stephen Blank
Author: Low-intensity Conflict in the Third World
Author: Stephen BlankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A common thread ties together the five case studies of this book: the persistence with which the bilateral relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union continues to dominate American foreign and regional policies. These essays analyze the LIC environment in Central Asia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa.
Low-intensity Conflict
Author: David C. IsbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Intervention (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Review of: U.S. policy and low-intensity conflict.
The Army and Low Intensity Conflict
Author: Rick WaddellPublisher: Fortis Publishing
ISBN: 9781937592325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
During the Cold War, given the threat of the Soviet military poised in Eastern Europe, the Army had to be able to wage armored warfare. The fear of low intensity conflict throughout the Cold War was the fear of bleeding to death from small bites. In this vein low intensity conflict was equivalent to an economy-of-force operation where our adversaries struck at us in our most vulnerable areas - terrorism, subversion, and insurgency. But, the challenge of low intensity conflict transcended the Cold War. The Soviets are gone, but the style of conflict remains: the security environment of the future may look more like the urban hell of Beirut, Sarajevo, or Baghdad where hand-held missiles and crude homemade bombs threaten air and ground movement, and more like the jungles of Vietnam or the mountains of Afghanistan, where the physical and human terrain negates or reduces the effectiveness of heavy weapons and high technology devices. Despite a large number of works that dealt with some aspect of low intensity conflict, none focused exclusively on the evolution of the Army's response to this security challenge. Understanding this evolution is important because the problems of terrorism, insurgency, peacekeeping, and contingency operations - the categories of low intensity conflict - took on new relevance in a world without the Soviet Union. The great bipolar confrontation had, for 45 years, submerged many of the world's ethnic, religious, and economic passions. The end of the Cold War gave these passions a new, violent and bloody freedom. Although interstate conflict remains a threat, many of the aforementioned passions give rise to internal conflicts which require the use of force in non-traditional ways. The Army did not respond well to the challenge in the past, costing thousands of American lives and setting up the only strategic defeat that the United States has suffered. By the early 1990s, the United States government once again determined that it wanted the capability to respond to these challenges. The changes in the early 1990s to the national strategy and the subordinate military strategy placed far greater emphasis on low intensity missions for the Army than had been the case since the early 1960s. Much of the post-Cold War Army would be based in the continental United States, and organized for rapid deployability in response to regional crises. Thus, the greater focus on conflict at the lower end of the spectrum colored the Army's, as well as the nation's, foreign policy abilities in the rest of the decade. Understanding the process of organizational change in the military, then, is necessary to the appropriate management of the Army's mission. If the Army does not prepare well to enact changed national strategy, the costs are quite high in human terms. And, as the defeat in Vietnam demonstrated, the political costs to the nation are quite high, too. We have now engaged in more than a decade of war after the 9-11 attacks, mostly of the low intensity variety. This book sets the stage for understanding the process the Army went through before it entered that decade, and can help us understand how the Army changed during the war.
Low-intensity Conflict
Author: Edwin G CorrPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429722982
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The end of the cold war does not necessarily mean the end of the social and political instability that can lead to low-intensity conflicts. This book provides fresh insights into a difficult subject by bringing together knowledgeable contributors who have the academic expertise, operational experience, and strategic perspective essential to underst
Low-Intensity Conflict in the Third World
Author: Lewis B. WarePublisher:
ISBN: 9781585660223
Category : Air power
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description