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On Absolute War - Terrorism and the Logic of Armed Conflict: Eric Fleury On Absolute War - Terrorism and the Logic of Armed Conflict
Eric Fleury
R909 Discovery Miles 9 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

On Absolute War - Terrorism and the Logic of Armed Conflict (Hardcover): Eric Fleury On Absolute War - Terrorism and the Logic of Armed Conflict (Hardcover)
Eric Fleury
R2,528 Discovery Miles 25 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Sensor Networks - 6th International Conference, SENSORNETS 2017, Porto, Portugal, February 19-21, 2017, and 7th International... Sensor Networks - 6th International Conference, SENSORNETS 2017, Porto, Portugal, February 19-21, 2017, and 7th International Conference, SENSORNETS 2018, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January 22-24, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
Cesar Benavente-Peces, Nancy Cam-Winget, Eric Fleury, Andreas Ahrens
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference, SENSORNETS 2017, Porto, Portugal, held in February 2017, and the 7th International Conference, SENSORNETS 2018, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, held in January 2018. The 18 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: sensor networks, including hardware of sensor networks, wireless communication protocols, sensor networks software and architectures, wireless information networks, data manipulation, signal processing, localization and object tracking through sensor networks, obstacles, applications and uses.

Allons Marcher dans la Presence - Petites discussions spirituelles entre amis (French, Paperback): Anne-Virginie Lucot, Eric... Allons Marcher dans la Presence - Petites discussions spirituelles entre amis (French, Paperback)
Anne-Virginie Lucot, Eric Fleury
R615 Discovery Miles 6 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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