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Author | : Isabelle Duyvesteyn |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2004-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135764832 |
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This book shows that wars that have hitherto been mainly interpreted as driven by economic, resource, ethnic or clan interests (such as the conflicts in Liberia and Somalia in the early 1990s) do have an overriding political rationale, which revalidates Carl von Clausewitz’s nineteenth-century understanding of war.
Author | : Simon David Taylor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2022-05-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1351065440 |
Download Combatants in African Conflicts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book focuses on the different types of combatants in conflicts in Africa, exploring the fine lines between what might be classified as a militia in one conflict, a rebel in another, or a terrorist in a third. Drawing on the work of Carl von Clausewitz, this book provides a conceptually stable and analytically sound new typology on combatants. Analysing the relationships between state and society, and drawing on Clausewitz's Trinity of passion, chance, and reason, the book presents a set of five types of armed actors: Professionals, Praetorians, Militias, Insurgents, and Mercenaries. Each type is developed through a close reading of foundational theoretical texts, reviews of contemporary studies, and a historical analysis of their unique characteristics. Unlike a reductionist binary perspective, this typology accounts for the dynamic, complex, and evolving relationships of these actors with the state and society. A typology of combatants in conflicts in Africa can provide avenues for more in-depth analysis of such conflicts and holds implications for Security Sector Reform projects and other peace-building programmes. As such, this book will be an essential reference for scholars and students of African Politics and Military and Security Studies.
Author | : John S. McCain (IV.) |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2017-04-11 |
Genre | : Angola |
ISBN | : 9781539161059 |
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For over twenty years, the South African Border War was fought to counter the influence of Marxism-Leninism and to maintain control of Namibia. The South African people relied on cultural tools and adaptive strategies to protect their own interests. John S. McCain IV isn't interested in taking sides on this issue; instead, he analyzes the military's tactics, operational effectiveness, and strategy. Angola, Clausewitz, and the American Way of War explores the concept of strategy making in war within the context of the South African Border War. It describes the danger of leaning on middle-range theories over general theories and of starting the decision-making process in the middle rather than at the top. Wars should not be forced into a type as one thing or another-and then assumed to be all the same, based on that type. Each individual war should be seen for what it is, unique, and those in charge should be prepared to make changes and reevaluate every step of the way to account for all the moving pieces and the realities on the ground. In the same vein as The Direction of War by Hew Strachan, McCain recognizes that US wars since 9/11 have been poorly strategized. This heavily researched volume challenges traditional approaches to conflict and suggests ways they could be improved.
Author | : Hew Strachan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2007-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199232024 |
Download Clausewitz in the Twenty-First Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The volume considers Clausewitz's timeless On War against the background of actual armed conflict. With scholars from a range of disciplines and countries, it throws new light on a classic text and contemporary issues.
Author | : Isabelle Duyvesteyn |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415354625 |
Download Rethinking the Nature of War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Interpretations of war as driven by politics and state rationale, formulated most importantly by the nineteenth-century practitioner Carl von Clausewitz, have received strong criticism. Political explanations have been said to fall short in explaining conflicts in the Balkans, Africa, Asia and the attacks of September 11 2001 in the United States. This book aims to re-evaluate these criticisms by not only carefully scrutinising Clausewitz's arguments and their applicability, but also by a careful reading of the criticism itself. In doing so, the contributions on this book present empirical evidence on the basis of several case studies, addressing various aspects of modern war, such as the actors, conduct and purposes of war. The book concludes that while the debate on the nature of war has far from run its course, the interpretation of war as postulated by Clausewitz is not as inapplicable as some have claimed.
Author | : Hew Strachan |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780802143631 |
Download Clausewitz's On War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Clausewitz's On War is a timely and fascinating answer to these problems. Hew Strachan, one of the world's foremost military historians, tells how and why On War was written, explains what Clausewitz meant, and offers insight into the impact it made on conflict and its continued significance in our world today."--Jacket.
Author | : Sibylle Scheipers |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0198799047 |
Download On Small War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The book introduces a fresh perspective on Carl von Clausewitz's thoughts on small war.
Author | : Colin M. Fleming |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2016-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317165225 |
Download Clausewitz's Timeless Trinity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first book to apply the Clausewitzian Trinity of 'passion, chance, and reason' to the experience of real war. It explores the depth and validity of the concept against the conflicts of former Yugoslavia - wars thought to epitomise a post-Clausewitzian age. In doing so it demonstrates the timeless message of the Trinity, but also ties the Trinitarian idea back into Clausewitz's political argument. Intended to build on the existing corpus of scholarship, this book differs from the existing literature in two ways. By applying the Trinity to the wars of former Yugoslavia 1991-1995, it explores war at its micro-foundations, assessing the complex cause-and-effect nexus of reciprocity produced by actions between belligerents embroiled in dynamic competition perpetuated by their own interaction. Providing valuable insights into the complexities of real war fuelled by passion, undermined by chance, and shaped by reason, it is the first study to bridge the Clausewitzian world of theory with real experience. Examining each part of the triad separately, the book explores the multiple manifestations of hostility and chance, before then assessing the influence of these elements on the policies of the belligerents as the war evolved.
Author | : Christopher Coker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190862653 |
Download Rebooting Clausewitz Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Rebooting Clausewitz offers an entirely new take on the work of history's greatest theorist of war. Written for an undergraduate readership that often struggles with Clausewitz's master work On War--a book that is often considered too philosophical and impenetrably dense--it seeks to unpack some of Clausewitz's key insights on theory and strategy. In three fictional interludes Clausewitz attends a seminar at West Point; debates the War on Terror at a Washington think tank; and visits a Robotics Institute in Santa Fe where he discusses how scientists are reshaping the future of war. Three separate essays situate Clausewitz in the context of his times, discuss his understanding of the culture of war, and the extent to which two other giants--Thucydides and Sun Tzu--complement his work. Some years ago the philosopher W.B. Gallie argued that Clausewitz needed to be 'saved from the Clausewitzians'. Clausewitz doesn't need saving and his commentators have contributed a great deal to our understanding of On War's seminal status as a text. But too often they tend to conduct a conversation between themselves. This book is an attempt to let a wider audience into the conversation.
Author | : Mason Holzerland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2021-04-19 |
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ISBN | : |
Download The American Way Of War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a very quick read, and one that hopefully finds a wider audience among those professionals who are searching for insights applicable to current military conflicts in several areas of the world. This book explores the concept of strategy making in war within the context of the South African Border War. It describes the danger of leaning on middle-range theories over general theories and of starting the decision-making process in the middle rather than at the top.