Author: Devorah S. Manekin
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501750445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
What explains differences in soldier participation in violence during irregular war? How do ordinary men become professional wielders of force, and when does this transformation falter or fail? Regular Soldiers, Irregular War presents a theoretical framework for understanding the various forms of behavior in which soldiers engage during counterinsurgency campaigns—compliance and shirking, abuse and restraint, as well as the creation of new violent practices. Through an in-depth study of the Israeli Defense Forces' repression of the Second Palestinian Intifada of 2000–2005, including in-depth interviews with and a survey of former combatants, Devorah Manekin examines how soldiers come both to unleash and to curb violence against civilians in a counterinsurgency campaign. Manekin argues that variation in soldiers' behavior is best explained by the effectiveness of the control mechanisms put in place to ensure combatant violence reflects the strategies and preferences of military elites, primarily at the small-unit level. Furthermore, she develops and analyzes soldier participation in three categories of violence: strategic violence authorized by military elites; opportunistic or unauthorized violence; and "entrepreneurial violence"—violence initiated from below to advance organizational aims when leaders are ambiguous about what will best serve those aims. By going inside military field units and exploring their patterns of command and control, Regular Soldiers, Irregular War, sheds new light on the dynamics of violence and restraint in counterinsurgency.
Regular Soldiers, Irregular War
Author: Devorah S. Manekin
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501750445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
What explains differences in soldier participation in violence during irregular war? How do ordinary men become professional wielders of force, and when does this transformation falter or fail? Regular Soldiers, Irregular War presents a theoretical framework for understanding the various forms of behavior in which soldiers engage during counterinsurgency campaigns—compliance and shirking, abuse and restraint, as well as the creation of new violent practices. Through an in-depth study of the Israeli Defense Forces' repression of the Second Palestinian Intifada of 2000–2005, including in-depth interviews with and a survey of former combatants, Devorah Manekin examines how soldiers come both to unleash and to curb violence against civilians in a counterinsurgency campaign. Manekin argues that variation in soldiers' behavior is best explained by the effectiveness of the control mechanisms put in place to ensure combatant violence reflects the strategies and preferences of military elites, primarily at the small-unit level. Furthermore, she develops and analyzes soldier participation in three categories of violence: strategic violence authorized by military elites; opportunistic or unauthorized violence; and "entrepreneurial violence"—violence initiated from below to advance organizational aims when leaders are ambiguous about what will best serve those aims. By going inside military field units and exploring their patterns of command and control, Regular Soldiers, Irregular War, sheds new light on the dynamics of violence and restraint in counterinsurgency.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501750445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
What explains differences in soldier participation in violence during irregular war? How do ordinary men become professional wielders of force, and when does this transformation falter or fail? Regular Soldiers, Irregular War presents a theoretical framework for understanding the various forms of behavior in which soldiers engage during counterinsurgency campaigns—compliance and shirking, abuse and restraint, as well as the creation of new violent practices. Through an in-depth study of the Israeli Defense Forces' repression of the Second Palestinian Intifada of 2000–2005, including in-depth interviews with and a survey of former combatants, Devorah Manekin examines how soldiers come both to unleash and to curb violence against civilians in a counterinsurgency campaign. Manekin argues that variation in soldiers' behavior is best explained by the effectiveness of the control mechanisms put in place to ensure combatant violence reflects the strategies and preferences of military elites, primarily at the small-unit level. Furthermore, she develops and analyzes soldier participation in three categories of violence: strategic violence authorized by military elites; opportunistic or unauthorized violence; and "entrepreneurial violence"—violence initiated from below to advance organizational aims when leaders are ambiguous about what will best serve those aims. By going inside military field units and exploring their patterns of command and control, Regular Soldiers, Irregular War, sheds new light on the dynamics of violence and restraint in counterinsurgency.
Irregular Warfare the Future Military Strategy for Small States
Author: Sándor Fabian
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781508490524
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A thought provoking essay on the possible implications of irregular warfare in national military strategy.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781508490524
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A thought provoking essay on the possible implications of irregular warfare in national military strategy.
Regular and Irregular War
Author: Lawrence Freedman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guerrilla warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guerrilla warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Theory of Irregular War
Author: Jonathan W. Hackett
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476689059
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
From Afghanistan to Angola, Indonesia to Iran, and Colombia to Congo, violent reactions erupt, states collapse, and militaries relentlessly pursue operations doomed to fail. And yet, no useful theory exists to explain this common tragedy. All over the world, people and states clash violently outside their established political systems, as unfulfilled demands of control and productivity bend the modern state to a breaking point. This book lays out how dysfunctional governments disrupt social orders, make territory insecure, and interfere with political-economic institutions. These give rise to a form of organized violence against the state known as irregular war. Research reveals why this frequent phenomenon is so poorly understood among conventional forces in those conflicts and the states who send their children to die in them.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476689059
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
From Afghanistan to Angola, Indonesia to Iran, and Colombia to Congo, violent reactions erupt, states collapse, and militaries relentlessly pursue operations doomed to fail. And yet, no useful theory exists to explain this common tragedy. All over the world, people and states clash violently outside their established political systems, as unfulfilled demands of control and productivity bend the modern state to a breaking point. This book lays out how dysfunctional governments disrupt social orders, make territory insecure, and interfere with political-economic institutions. These give rise to a form of organized violence against the state known as irregular war. Research reveals why this frequent phenomenon is so poorly understood among conventional forces in those conflicts and the states who send their children to die in them.
The American Way of Irregular War
Author: Charles T. Cleveland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781977405449
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The United States has failed to achieve strategic objectives in nearly every military campaign since Vietnam. This memoir describes how the United States can begin to build the American way of irregular war needed for success in modern conflict.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781977405449
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The United States has failed to achieve strategic objectives in nearly every military campaign since Vietnam. This memoir describes how the United States can begin to build the American way of irregular war needed for success in modern conflict.
Irregular Enemies and the Essence of Strategy
Author: Colin S. Gray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Counterinsurgency
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The author offers a detailed comparison between the character of irregular warfare, insurgency in particular, and the principal enduring features of "the American way." He concludes that there is a serious mismatch between that "way" and the kind of behavior that is most effective in countering irregular foes. The author poses the question, Can the American way of war adapt to a strategic threat context dominated by irregular enemies? He suggests that the answer is "perhaps, but only with difficulty."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Counterinsurgency
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The author offers a detailed comparison between the character of irregular warfare, insurgency in particular, and the principal enduring features of "the American way." He concludes that there is a serious mismatch between that "way" and the kind of behavior that is most effective in countering irregular foes. The author poses the question, Can the American way of war adapt to a strategic threat context dominated by irregular enemies? He suggests that the answer is "perhaps, but only with difficulty."
Semi-regular and irregular warfare in the Civil War
Author: Ethelbert Courtland Barksdale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
War 2.0
Author: Thomas Rid
Publisher: Thomas Rid
ISBN: 0313364702
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Examines the relevance of the changes in the media environment for the conduct of armed conflict and war, particularly as it relates to irregular warfare. Argues that new media provide an advantage to unconventional forces and discusses the reactions that regular forces should have in order to temper this advantage.
Publisher: Thomas Rid
ISBN: 0313364702
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Examines the relevance of the changes in the media environment for the conduct of armed conflict and war, particularly as it relates to irregular warfare. Argues that new media provide an advantage to unconventional forces and discusses the reactions that regular forces should have in order to temper this advantage.
Modern Irregular Warfare
Author: Friedrich August Heydte (Freiherr von der)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780933488496
Category : Irregular warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780933488496
Category : Irregular warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Chasing Ghosts
Author: John J. Tierney
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597970158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Important military lessons for fighting today's insurgency in Iraq
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597970158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Important military lessons for fighting today's insurgency in Iraq