Nonstate warfare: (Record no. 3949)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780691216669
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 355.0218
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Personal name Biddle, Stephen D.
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Title Nonstate warfare:
Remainder of title the military methods of guerillas, warlords, and militias
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Princeton University Press
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Princeton
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2021
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xix, 436 p.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price type code USD
Price amount 27.95
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Summary, etc. Since September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion from scholars, policymakers, and the military. Underlying debates about nonstate warfare and how it should be countered is one crucial assumption: that state and nonstate actors fight very differently. In Nonstate Warfare, Stephen Biddle upturns this distinction, arguing that there is actually nothing intrinsic separating state or nonstate military behavior. Through an in-depth look at nonstate military conduct, Biddle shows that many nonstate armies now fight more “conventionally” than many state armies, and that the internal politics of nonstate actors—their institutional maturity and wartime stakes rather than their material weapons or equipment—determines tactics and strategies.<br/><br/>Biddle frames nonstate and state methods along a continuum, spanning Fabian-style irregular warfare to Napoleonic-style warfare involving massed armies, and he presents a systematic theory to explain any given nonstate actor’s position on this spectrum. Showing that most warfare for at least a century has kept to the blended middle of the spectrum, Biddle argues that material and tribal culture explanations for nonstate warfare methods do not adequately explain observed patterns of warmaking. Investigating a range of historical examples from Lebanon and Iraq to Somalia, Croatia, and the Vietcong, Biddle demonstrates that viewing state and nonstate warfighting as mutually exclusive can lead to errors in policy and scholarship.<br/><br/>A comprehensive account of combat methods and military rationale, Nonstate Warfare offers a new understanding for wartime military behavior.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Militia
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Non-state actors (International relations)
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Guerrilla warfare
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Public Policy & General Management TB2749 06-01-2023 Indian Institute of Management LRC Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks 01/23/2023 Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. 1519.79   355.0218 BID 004317 01/23/2023 1 2311.47 01/23/2023 Book

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