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The Insurgent's Dilemma - A Struggle to Prevail (Hardcover)
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The Insurgent's Dilemma - A Struggle to Prevail (Hardcover)
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Despite attracting headlines and hype, insurgents rarely win. Even
when they claim territory and threaten governmental writ, they
typically face a military backlash too powerful to withstand.
States struggle with addressing the political roots of such
movements, and their military efforts mostly just 'mow the grass';
yet, for the insurgent, the grass is nonetheless mowed--and the
armed project must start over. This is the insurgent's dilemma: the
difficulty of asserting oneself, of violently challenging
authority, and of establishing sustainable power. In the face of
this dilemma, some insurgents are learning new ways to ply their
trade. With subversion, spin and disinformation claiming centre
stage, insurgency is being reinvented, to exploit the
vulnerabilities of our times and gain new strategic salience for
tomorrow. As the most promising approaches are refined and
repurposed, what we think of as counterinsurgency will also need to
change. The Insurgent's Dilemma explores three particularly
adaptive strategies and their implications for response. These
emerging strategies target the state where it is weak and sap its
power, sometimes without it noticing. There are options for
response, but fresh thinking is urgently needed--about society,
legitimacy and political violence itself.
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