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Nonstate Warfare

By Stephen Biddle

Nonstate Warfare

By Stephen Biddle

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Since September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion from scholars, policymakers, and the military. Underlying debates about nonstate warfare and how it should be countered is one crucial assumption: that state and nonstate actors fight very differently. Biddle frames nonstate and state methods along a continuum, spanning Fabian-style irregular warfare to Napoleonic-style warfare involving massed armies, and he presents a systematic theory to explain any given nonstate actor's position on this spectrum. Showing that most warfare for at least a century has kept to the blended middle of the spectrum, Biddle argues that material and tribal culture explanations for nonstate warfare methods do not adequately explain observed patterns of warmaking. Investigating a range of historical examples from Lebanon and Iraq to Somalia, Croatia, and the Vietcong, Biddle demonstrates that viewing state and nonstate warfighting as mutually exclusive can lead to errors in policy and scholarship.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
464
Release Date:
2021-04-06
Publication Date:
2021-04-06
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0691207518
ISBN13:
9780691207513
Weight:
782 g
Height:
158 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
42 cm
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