Modern stateless warfare
By: Paul Brooker
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780230211421
Description: "This book focuses on insurgent stateless warfare in its guerrilla and terrorist modes and in its nationalist, maoist and postmaoist phases of modernisation. Insurgency is compared with states warfare and with criminality and then insurgents motive, means and opportunity are analysed from social-science, military and environmental perspectives"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: Insurgent stateless warfare. Historical background ; The types and modes of insurgency ; Insurgent strategies ; Terroristic warfare and strategies ; Comparisons with criminality; title: The calculus of insurgency : motive, means and opportunity. The motives of insurgency ; The means of insurgency ; Opportunity and environments ; The social-political environment.