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050	0	0	_aU163 _b.B532 2021
082	0	0	_a355.02/18 _223
100	1		_aBiddle, Stephen D., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aNonstate warfare : _bThe military methods of guerillas, warlords, and militias / _cStephen Biddle.
264		1	_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2021]
300			_axix, 436 p. : _bill., maps ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"A Council on Foreign Relations book."
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe fallacy of guerilla warfare -- Materially optimal behavior -- Politically achievable behavior -- Hezbollah in the 2006 Lebanon Campaign -- The Jaish al Mahdi in Iraq, 2003-8 -- The Somali National Alliance in Somalia, 1992-94 -- The ZNG, HV, and SVK in the Croatian Wars of Independence, 1991-95 -- The Vietcong in the Second Indochina War, 1965-68 -- Conclusion and implications.
520			_a"Armed nonstate actors have received increasing attention since September 11th, 2001, both from scholars and from policy makers and soldiers--and with this attention has come a vibrant debate about whether nonstate civil warfare and insurgency is the future of war, and if so, how it should be countered. Yet underlying these debates is one crucial shared assumption: that states and nonstate actors fight very differently. Biddle upturns this distinction in How Nonstate Actors Fight, examining actual military methods to show that many nonstate actors now fight more "conventionally" than many states. Rather than a dichotomy, Biddle frames nonstate and state methods along a continuum and presents a systematic theory to explain any given nonstate actor's position on this spectrum. His theory emphasizes how actors' internal politics - especially their institutional maturity and war aims - determine their military choices. In doing so, Biddle bridges to largely opposing groups of scholarship: materialists who assume that material and structural constraints will lead nonstates to prefer irregular warfare, and culturalists who see nonstate warmaking as connected to social norms. Biddle integrates both materialist and cultural considerations into this theory, but emphasizes internal politics as the chief determinant of how any actor will fight. The first four chapters present Biddle's theory, and the next five test is across a range of historical examples, from Lebanon to Iraq to Somalia to Croatia to the Vietcong"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aAsymmetric warfare _vCase studies.
650		0	_aNon-state actors (International relations) _vCase studies.
650		0	_aGuerrilla warfare _vCase studies.
650		0	_aMilitia _vCase studies.
710	2		_aCouncil on Foreign Relations.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aBiddle, Stephen, D. _tNonstate warfare _dPrinceton : Princeton University Press, [2021] _z9780691216652 _w(DLC) 2020040046
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