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On Absolute War - Terrorism and the Logic of Armed Conflict (Hardcover)
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Nearly two decades after the declaration of a 'War on Terror,' the
precise relationship between warfare and terrorism remains unclear.
The United States and its allies have long sought to inflict a
decisive defeat upon groups such as Al Qaeda and ISIS, while
regarding their individual members as malevolent criminals
undeserving of combatant status. A clearer understanding of how
terrorists define victory, and how their method of fighting relates
to conventional military forces, is necessary in order to devise
more realistic and effective strategies of counterterrorism. On
Absolute War constructs a theoretical framework for the study of
terrorism based on Carl von Clausewitz's On War, widely regarded as
the greatest analysis of war ever written. Through a review of
Clausewitz's work and a set of historical case studies ranging from
the Fenian Dynamite Campaign of the 1880s to the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan, Prof. Fleury reveals just how closely terrorism mimics
the logic of war. Terrorism attempts to restore war to its
theoretical baseline, a condition that Clausewitz called 'absolute
war' featuring relentless escalation toward a climactic result.
While never achieving this ideal in practice, terrorists succeed to
the extent that they compel their enemies and their prospective
followers to engage mutual escalation, which will ultimately favor
whichever side is better able to jettison logistical and normative
limits. Consequently, states must engage terrorists on the basis of
Clausewitz's two most important injunctions, namely that war is
temporary and subordinate to political controls. Given the very
real prospect of a war without any temporal and spatial limits, On
Absolute War provides the theoretical basis for a strategy of
limiting the effects of terrorism, rather than repeatedly trying
and failing to destroy it.
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