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This book seeks to answer the "why" and "how" questions about the
insurgency of the PKK, a militant left-wing group of Turkey's
Kurds, in Turkey. The PKK has been inter-locked in an intermittent
war against Turkey since 1984 in the name of Kurdish nationalism.
The author combines insights of Strategy and IR - from strategy and
tactics in irregular warfare to peace negotiations between state
authorities and insurgents, with data from qualitative research, to
achieve two inter-related objectives: first, assess the current
state of affairs and predict the future course of the conflict and,
secondly, draw general conclusions on how protracted conflicts can
end and how.
This book illuminates on the US strategy of proxy warfare in modern
times with the Syrian Civil War as a case study. Spyridon Plakoudas
and Wojtek Michnik fuse modern history with international relations
and strategic studies in order to offer an up-to-date and critical
analysis of this unique partnership between a state (USA) and a
non-state actor (Syrian Kurds) against another non-state actor
(ISIS) - amidst the wider Syrian civil war. They argue that this
partnership ended up as a double-edged sword: on the one hand, it
defeated ISIS at a minimum cost in money and blood in comparison to
the Iraq War, but, on the other hand, it ensnared the USA into a
tangled web of competition and conflict with other powers with no
easy way-out. In other words, proxy warfare may prove a
not-so-cheap investment in the end.
The Greek Civil War (1946-1949) was one of the few instances in the
post-World War II era of a clear-cut and permanent victory by
right-wing government forces over an insurgent communist movement.
Spyridon Plakoudas here explores the factors which ultimately
caused the downfall of the communist insurgency in Greece which
had, at some points, seemed undefeatable. He questions whether the
guerrilla movement fell victim to the feud between Stalin and Tito
or whether the significant British and, above all, American aid in
fact rescued the Greek monarchist regime from collapse. Plakoudas
explores the strategies adopted by government forces in order to
counter the communist insurgency, how external and internal actors
influenced these policies and when, how and why these policies
achieved success. Featuring previously unseen sources and
documents, this book reveals the strategy and tactics of the
monarchist regime.
The Greek Civil War (1946-1949) was one of the few instances in the
post-World War II era of a clear-cut and permanent victory by
right-wing government forces over an insurgent communist movement.
Spyridon Plakoudas here explores the factors which ultimately
caused the downfall of the communist insurgency in Greece which
had, at some points, seemed undefeatable. He questions whether the
guerrilla movement fell victim to the feud between Stalin and Tito
or whether the significant British and, above all, American aid in
fact rescued the Greek monarchist regime from collapse. Plakoudas
explores the strategies adopted by government forces in order to
counter the communist insurgency, how external and internal actors
influenced these policies and when, how and why these policies
achieved success. Featuring previously unseen sources and
documents, this book reveals the strategy and tactics of the
monarchist regime.
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