Synopses & Reviews
Product Description:
- Discussion of armed groups which are considered to include classic insurgents, terrorists, guerrillas, militias, police agencies, criminal organizations, war-lords, privatized military organizations, mercenaries, pirates, drug cartels, apocalyptic religious extremists, orchestrated rioters and mobs, and tribal factions.
- To study armed groups use of history, political science, anthropology, sociology, theology, and economics are traditional areas of research. The book also delves into matters of ethics, technology, intelligence, education, the law, diplomacy, military science, and even mythology.
- The book is divided into five sections: History and armed groups, Present context and environment, Religion and inspiration, thinking differently about armed groups, the shpae of things to come.
Review
Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence by Andrew T.H. Tan, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia (April 1, 2009)
"The massive volume, with some 32 chapters, appears unwieldly but there are genuine gems. Divided into five parts, it begins with an examination of the history of armed groups. The second part examines the present context and environment, with the aim of clarifying the "driving factors that animate the challenges of armed groups today" (p. xvii). . . . The third part examines religion as an inspiration ... The fourth section is an analytical section that Norwitz has titled "Thinking Differents About Armed Groups." ... Finally, the last section examines the shape of things to come. , , ,
The book is recommended not only for researchers, but also for advanced classes, in which it should generate plenty of discussion."
Synopsis
Product Description:
- Discussion of armed groups which are considered to include classic insurgents, terrorists, guerrillas, militias, police agencies, criminal organizations, war-lords, privatized military organizations, mercenaries, pirates, drug cartels, apocalyptic religious extremists, orchestrated rioters and mobs, and tribal factions.
- To study armed groups use of history, political science, anthropology, sociology, theology, and economics are traditional areas of research. The book also delves into matters of ethics, technology, intelligence, education, the law, diplomacy, military science, and even mythology.
- The book is divided into five sections: History and armed groups, Present context and environment, Religion and inspiration, thinking differently about armed groups, the shpae of things to come.
About the Author
U. S. Department of Defense: Naval War College
Table of Contents
ARMED GROUPS: STUDIES IN NATIONAL SECURITY,COUNTERTERRORISM, AND COUNTERINSURGENCY TABLE OF CONTENTSForeword, by Admiral Stansfield Turner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . ixAcknowledgments . . . . . …………. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiIntroduction, by Jeffrey H. Norwitz, Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . xv History and Armed GroupsPirates,Vikings, andTeutonicKnights……. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . 3Peter T. Underwood (Naval WarCollege) The Italian Red Brigades (1969–1984): Political RevolutionAnd Threats to the State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ………….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Paul J. Smith (Naval WarCollege) Armed Conflict in Cambodia and the UN Response . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Carole Garrison (Eastern KentuckyUniversity) Armed Groups and Diplomacy: East Timor’s FRETILIN Guerrillas . . . . .....35Gene Christy (Department of State) Adapting to a Changing Environment—The Irish Republican Armyas an Armed Group……………. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Timothy D. Hoyt (Naval WarCollege) PseudoOperations—A Double-Edged Sword of Counterinsurgency . . . . .. 61Theodore L. Gatchel (Naval WarCollege) Present Context and EnvironmentTheThreat to theMaritime Domain: How Real Is theTerrorist Threat? . . . . 75Rohan Gunaratna (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies) ArmedGroups and the Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …………… . . 87Craig H. Allen (University of Washington) Globalization and the Transformation of Armed Groups…. . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Querine H. Hanlon (NationalDefenseUniversity) Is It Possible to Deter Armed Groups?............... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127Yosef Kuperwasser (Brigadier General ret, Israeli Defense Forces) Sanctuary: The Geopolitics of Terrorism and Insurgency…. . . . . . . . . . . . 135Mackubin Thomas Owens (Naval WarCollege) Small Wars Are Local: Debunking Current AssumptionsAbout Countering Small Armed Groups……… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149Peter Curry (MarineCorpsWarCollege) Piracy and the Exploitation of Sanctuary. ……….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Martin N. Murphy (Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies, King’s College London) Domestic Terrorism: Forgotten, But Not Gone …….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173Edward J. Valla and Gregory Comcowich (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
The Threat of Armed Street Gangs in America . . ……... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189Edward J. Maggio (New York Institute of Technology) Prosecuting Homegrown Extremists: Case Study of theVirginia “Paintball Jihad” Cell. . . . . ……………. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Steven Emerson (The Investigative Project on Terrorism) Religion as InspirationArmed with the Power of Religion: Not Just a War of Ideas . . …... . . . . . . . 215Pauletta Otis (United States Marine Corps Command and StaffCollege) Arming for Armageddon: Myths and Motivations of ViolenceIn American Christian Apocalypticism . …………. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Timothy J. Demy (Naval WarCollege) Glory in Defeat and Other Islamist Ideologies………. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .237Mehrdad Mozayyan (Naval WarCollege) Thinking Differently about Armed GroupsThe Erosion of Constraints in Armed-Group Warfare:BloodyTactics andVulnerableTargets …………….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255Andrea J. Dew (Naval WarCollege) KnowledgeTransfer and Shared Learning among Armed Groups ….. . . . . .269JamesJ.F.Forest (Combating TerrorismCenter, West Point) The “Memory of War”: Tribes and the Legitimate Use of Force in Iraq .. . . . 291Montgomery McFate (Institute for Defense Analysis) Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? Tyrant or Guardian? ……… . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311Derek S. Reveron (Naval WarCollege) and Jeffrey Stevenson Murer (University of St. Andrews) Disrupting and Influencing Leaders of Armed Groups ……… . . . . . . . . . . . .323Elena Mastors and Jeffrey H. Norwitz (Naval WarCollege) Armed Groups through the Lens of Anthropology . . . ………... . . . . . . . . . . .343David W. Kriebel (Naval WarCollege) The Shape of Things to ComeChildren on the Battlefield: The Breakdown of Moral Norms . ………. . . . . . .357P. W. Singer (The Brookings Institution) The “New Silk Road” of Terrorism and Organized Crime:The Key to Countering the Terror-Crime Nexus. …………. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .371Russell D. Howard and Colleen M. Traughber (JebsenCenter for Counter-terrorismStudies, TuftsUniversity) Shari’a Financing and the Coming Ummah. ……………... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen (AmericanCenter for Democracy) Terrorism as an International Security Problem …………… . . . . . . . . . .. . . .405
Martha Crenshaw (StanfordUniversity) Takin’ It to the Streets: Hydra Networks, Chaos Strategies,and the “New” Asymmetry . . …………………... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419P. H. Liotta (PellCenter for International Relations and Public Policy) Virtual Sanctuary Enables Global Insurgency ………………. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431Richard Shultz (TuftsUniversity) Armed Groups: Changing the Rules . . …………………. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447T. X. Hammes (Colonel ret, U.S. Marine Corps) AppendixUnited Nations Guidelines on Humanitarian NegotiationsWith Armed Groups ……………………… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs