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Gangs, Pseudo-militaries, and Other Modern Mercenaries - New Dynamics in Uncomfortable Wars (Paperback)
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Gangs, Pseudo-militaries, and Other Modern Mercenaries - New Dynamics in Uncomfortable Wars (Paperback)
Series: International and Security Affairs Series
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As the first decade of the twenty-first century has made brutally
clear, the very definitions of war and the enemy have changed
almost beyond recognition. Threats to security are now as likely to
come from armed propagandists, popular militias, or mercenary
organizations as they are from conventional armies backed by
nation-states. In this timely book, national security expert Max G.
Manwaring explores a little-understood actor on the stage of
irregular warfare - the gang.Since the end of the Cold War, some
one hundred insurgencies or irregular wars have erupted throughout
the world. Gangs have figured prominently in more than half of
those conflicts, yet these and other nonstate actors have received
little focused attention from scholars or analysts. This book fills
that void. Employing a case study approach, and believing that
shadows from the past often portend the future, Manwaring begins
with a careful consideration of the writings of V. I. Lenin. He
then scrutinizes the Piqueteros in Argentina, gangs in Colombia,
private armies in Mexico, Hugo Chavez's use of popular militias in
Venezuela, and the looming threat of Al Qaeda in Western Europe. As
conventional warfare is increasingly eclipsed by these irregular
and ""uncomfortable"" wars, Manwaring boldly diagnoses the problem
and recommends solutions that policymakers should heed.
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