Insurgency, Terrorism and Crime : Shadows from the Past and Portents for the Future
Contents: Foreword/Edwin G. Corr. Preface. Introduction. 1. A multiple conflict syndrome: the Colombian insurgency. 2. Transforming War into "Superinsurgency": Hugo Chavez and fourth-generation Warfare. 3. A multidimensional paradigm for political-terrorist War: Al Qaeda\'s approach to asymmetric warfare. 4. Sovereignty under siege: Gangs and other criminal organizations in Central America and Mexico. 5. An Unorthodox Military Movement into and out of power: Preventive insurgency and democratic transition in Portugal, 1974 and beyond. 6. From defeat to power in four hard lessons: the Uruguayan Tupamaros\' Sea Change, 1962-2005. 7. Reflections on the successful Italian Counterterrorism effort, 1968-1983. Afterword: the Manwaring paradigm as a guide to U.S. National Security in Asymmetric Warfare and for strengthening the U.S. National Security System, by Edwin G. Corr. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
"Wars were once fought mainly between nations--a presumption put to rest on September 11, 2001. Al Qaeda showed that nonstate actors could threaten a traditional nation state and pursue strategic objectives without conventional weaponry, thereby altering the nature of war and often rendering military firepower meaningless.
In this important book, national security expert Max G. Manwaring examines the ascendance of non-state actors in a geopolitical world. He shows how such actors have emerged parallel to the state centric international system and have proliferated in nations undergoing crisis or collapse. Manwaring invites policy makers to look past familiar insurgencies such as those in Vietnam and Iraq and consider global security problems from multiple perspectives. He concludes that the use of calculated political and psychological power may be the most effective response in many situations.
In a world where Hugo Chavez and other political actors can mobilize the powerless around the globe to wage "Asymmetric War" against the political and economic domination of the United States, and where Al Qaeda can generate and exploit instability to coerce policy change and to recruit followers worldwide, the power to make war no longer rests solely in the hands of traditional governments. Manwaring analyzes the context, conduct, and outcome of these irregular wars and applies proven methods of effective response to seven case studies: Colombia, Al Qaeda, Portugal, Uruguay, Venezuela, Italy and Central American Gangs and criminal organizations.
Insurgency, Terrorism, and Crime translates the cogent lessons of recent events into workable strategies for tomorrow\'s leaders. Provocatively concluding that a proper combination of coordinated political, psychological, and military responses can defeat a new generation of enemies, this book is required reading for students of national security policy and foreign policy analysis." (jacket)
