Rosemarie Skaine

Suicide Warfare (eBook, PDF)

Culture, the Military, and the Individual as a Weapon

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides up-to-date coverage of the policies, strategies, and effects of suicide in war, examining this subject from societal and military perspectives to shed light on the justifications for using human beings as expendable weapons.

Suicide warfare has expanded over the years and become a global phenomenon. In some parts of the world, it has become rooted in the fabric of society. Westerners often find it difficult to grasp why someone would be willing to sacrifice their life in order to take the lives of others. Suicide Warfare: Culture, the Military, and the Individual as a Weapon provides a thorough examination of the topic that enables readers to understand the justification for suicide warfare and better appreciate how the ideology of the individuals and organizations that resort to suicide warfare greatly complicates security issues in the 21st century.

The book covers the policies, strategies, and effects of suicide in war, examining suicide warfare in its entirety from a theoretical standpoint, and then applying those theories to the actual manifestations of and politico-military responses to suicide warfare. The author discusses specific organizations such as Al Qaeda and the Chechen rebels, analyzing each within its societal context, military justification, individual motivation, and outcomes, and addresses principles of sociological and conflict theory to place suicide warfare in a clearer conceptual framework. The book presents case studies that allow readers to better understand abstract theories and make distinctions between individual cases of suicide warfare.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313398650
• Artikelnr.: 38192486

Autorenporträt

Rosemarie Skaine is an author and sociologist whose published works include Praeger's Suicide Warfare: Culture, the Military, and the Individual as a Weapon; ABC-CLIO's Women in Combat: A Reference Handbook; and Women at War: Gender Issues of Americans in Combat.

Inhaltsangabe

Tables and Maps Preface Acknowledgments I. Theoretical Analysis of Suicide Warfare 1 Defining Suicide Warfare 2 Suicide Warfare in Modern Conflicts 3 Suicide Warfare and Policies of War 4 Strategies of Suicide Warfare 5 Effects of Suicide Warfare II. Case Studies 6 Japan's Kamikaze Pilots 7 Hezbollah and Palestinian Conflicts with Israel 8 Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers 9 Chechen Separatists 10 Al Qaeda Conclusion: Suicide as a Weapon in War Appendix: Documents A. President George W. Bush
the National Security Strategy
Preemptive Self-Defense
"The Bush Doctrine"-Excerpt B. President Barack Obama's Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize
Oslo
Norway
December 10
2009
Just War-Excerpt C. Al Qaeda's Seven Stages Plan D. Chechen Separatist Note of Demands to President Putin
August 30
2004 E. The Killing of Osama bin Laden F. Osama bin Laden's Last Letter
Late May 2010
to Shaykh Mahmud ('Atiyya)-Excerpt Notes Bibliography Index