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Countering global insurgency
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The authors suggests that the War on Terrorism is actually a campaign against a globalized Islamist insurgency and that counterinsurgency approaches are more relevant to the present conflict than traditional terrorism theory.Abstract:
This article suggests that the War on Terrorism is actually a campaign against a globalized Islamist 1 insurgency. Therefore, counterinsurgency approaches are more relevant to the present conflict than traditional terrorism theory. Indeed, a counterinsurgency approach would generate subtly, but substantially different, policy choices in prosecuting the war against Al Qaeda. Based on this analysis, the article proposes a strategy of ‘disaggregation’ that seeks to dismantle, or break, the links in the global jihad.2 Like containment in the Cold War, disaggregation would provide a unifying strategic conception for the war – a conception that has been somewhat lacking to date.read more
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The Evolution of International Security Studies
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The virtual dimension of contemporary insurgency and counterinsurgency
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The 'Tribal Politics' of Field Research: A Reflection on Power and Partiality in 21st-Century Warzones
TL;DR: The authors argue that those still able to do fieldwork in sites of increasing danger do so by virtue of building their own "tribes, forming and joining different social micro-systems to collect data and, in some cases, survive.
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
TL;DR: Recit de l'action de Lawrence au Moyen Orient aupres des tribus arabes as discussed by the authors, Premiere ed. a tirage limite en 1926, ed. abregee et expurgee en 1927 publiee sous le titre : "Revolt in the desert"
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Insurgency and counterinsurgency in Iraq
TL;DR: The United States has long been frustrated in fighting insurgencies. as discussed by the authors used the present as prologue in order to understand in counterinsurgency terms where we have gone wrong in Iraq; what unique challenges the current conflict in Iraq presents to the U.S. and other coalition military forces deployed there; and what light both shed on future counter-insurgencies planning, operations and requirements.
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Clausewitz and Low-Intensity Conflict
TL;DR: In this paper, the relevance of Clausewitz's thought in a strategic environment where low-intensity conflict (LIC) would predominate is questioned, and a move away from Clausewitz in US doctrine has been coupled with a rejection of LIC in favour of the erroneous notion of "operations other than war".
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Al Qaeda and its affiliates: A global tribe waging segmental warfare?
TL;DR: The tribal paradigm should be added to the network and other prevailing paradigms to help figure out the best policies and strategies for countering these violent actors.