Jonathan W. Hackett

Theory of Irregular War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9781476689050
• ISBN-10: 1476689059
• Artikelnr.: 69708687

Autorenporträt

Jonathan W. Hackett is a U.S. Marine with two decades of experience. He has held positions at the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Marine Forces Special Operations Command, and the Marine Corps operating forces prior to teaching full spectrum human intelligence operations and security cooperation in Dam Neck, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Part I: Thinking About Irregular 1.
Enemies of the State Existing Theoretical Frameworks A Note on Method A Note on Sources Structure of the Book 2.
A Framework of Thought, Action, and Justice A School of Thought and Action John Rawls and the Theory of Justice The Functional Sovereign The Dysfunctional Sovereign Violent Resistance and the Dysfunctional Sovereign 'Asabiyyah and Anomie 3.
The Structure of Irregular War Theories and Philosophies of War, or "On Clausewitz" Irregular War: A Social, Territorial, and Political Affair Irregular War and Social Order Irregular War and Sovereign Territory Irregular War and Political-Economic Institutions The Conduct of Irregular War Structures of Conflict: Insurgency and Revolution Part II: The Synecdoche Trap 4.
Problems of Scope, Method, Bias, and Character Problem One: Scope Problem Two: "Methodismus" Problem Three: Bias Problem Four: Character The Human Element 5.
Conventional War Theory and Regular Wars Law and Doctrine Doctrinal Disconnect Wars, Conventional and Regular 6.
Conventional Forces in Irregular Wars Combatting Bandits in Small Wars A French Vision of Disaster The British Method American Force Suppression and Destruction Third-Party Intervention Part III: A Theory of Irregular 7.
Irregular War Conditions Conditions of Social Order and Sovereign Dysfunction Conditions of Sovereign Territory and Sovereign Dysfunction Conditions of Political-Economic Institutions and Sovereign Dysfunction 8.
The Elements: People, Politics, and Propaganda Thinkers and Actors The Why Wings of Resistance Ideology and the Message 9.
A Dialectic of Irregular War The Intersection of People and the State The State and Its Enemies Irregular Wars and Sovereign Dysfunction Concluding Irregular Wars Chapter Notes References Index