Pirates, Terrorists, and Warlords: The History, Influence, and Future of Armed Groups Around the WorldJeffrey H. Norwitz Pirates, warlords, guerillas, criminal organizations, drug cartels, apocalyptic religious extremists, police agencies, terrorists: these are classic insurgents whose past, present, and future is dissected in this important book. Contributing writers including Martha Crenshaw, T. X. Hammes, Russell Howard, Gene Cristy, Yosef Kuperwasser, and academics from Naval War College, Marine Corps War College, and Stanford University, explore important insurgency-related issues such as domestic terrorism, globalization of armed groups, children on the battlefield, religious influence on armed fights, and more. This rich anthology offers scholars and citizens a new way to think about national and international security—as it stands today, and its future. |
Contents
Pseudo OperationsA DoubleEdged Sword of Counterinsurgency | |
How Real is the Terrorist | |
Glory in Defeat and Other Islamist Ideologies | |
Part Four THINKING DIFFERENTLY ABOUT ARMED GROUPS | |
Bloody Tactics and Vulnerable Targets | |
Knowledge Transfer and Shared Learning among Armed Groups | |
Tribes and the Legitimate Use of Force in Iraq | |
Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? Tyrant or Guardian? | |
Disrupting and Influencing Leaders of Armed Groups | |
Armed Groups through the Lens of Anthropology | |
Armed Groups and the | |
Globalization and the Transformation of Armed Groups | |
Is It Possible to Deter Armed Groups? | |
Questioning Assumptions about Armed | |
Piracy and the Exploitation of Sanctuary | |
Forgotten But Not Gone | |
The Threat of Armed Street Gangs in America | |
Case Study of the Virginia | |
Not Just a War of Ideas | |
Myths and Motivations of Violence | |
Part Five THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME | |
The Breakdown of Moral Norms | |
The Key to Countering the TerrorCrime Nexus | |
Sharia Financing and the Coming Ummah | |
Terrorism as an International Security Problem | |
Hydra Networks Chaos Strategies and the New Asymmetry | |
Virtual Sanctuary Enables Global Insurgency | |
Changing the Rules | |
Appendix United Nations Guidelines on Humanitarian Negotiations with Armed Groups | |
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