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Mercenaries in Asymmetric Conflicts (Hardcover, New)
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Mercenaries in Asymmetric Conflicts (Hardcover, New)
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In Mercenaries in Asymmetric Conflicts, Scott Fitzsimmons argues
that small mercenary groups must maintain a superior military
culture to successfully engage and defeat more numerous and
better-equipped opponents. By developing and applying competing
constructivist and neorealist theories of military performance to
four asymmetric wars in Angola and the Democratic Republic of
Congo, he demonstrates how mercenary groups that strongly emphasize
behavioral norms encouraging their personnel to think creatively,
make decisions on their own, take personal initiative, communicate
accurate information within the group, enhance their technical
proficiency, and develop a sense of loyalty to their fellow
fighters will exhibit vastly superior tactical capabilities than
other mercenary groups. Fitzsimmons also demonstrates that although
the victorious mercenary groups occasionally had access to weapon
systems unavailable to their opponents, the balance of material
capabilities fielded by the opposing military forces had far less
influence on the outcome of these asymmetric conflicts than the
culturally determined tactical behavior exhibited by their
personnel.
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