Download or read book Responding to Low Intensity Conflict Challenges written by Stephen Blank and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Responding to Low intensity Conflict Challenges written by Stephen Blank and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Responding to Low intensity Conflict Challenges written by Stephen Blank and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Responding to Low Intensity Conflict Challenges written by Gordon Press Publishers and published by . This book was released on 1995-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Responding to Low intensity Conflict Challenges Stephen Blank written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Low intensity Conflict in the Third World written by Stephen Blank and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common thread ties together the five case studies of this book: the persistence with which the bilateral relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union continues to dominate American foreign and regional policies. These essays analyze the LIC environment in Central Asia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa.
Download or read book Low intensity Conflict written by David C. Isby and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review of: U.S. policy and low-intensity conflict.
Download or read book The Army and Low Intensity Conflict written by Rick Waddell and published by Fortis Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War, given the threat of the Soviet military poised in Eastern Europe, the Army had to be able to wage armored warfare. The fear of low intensity conflict throughout the Cold War was the fear of bleeding to death from small bites. In this vein low intensity conflict was equivalent to an economy-of-force operation where our adversaries struck at us in our most vulnerable areas - terrorism, subversion, and insurgency. But, the challenge of low intensity conflict transcended the Cold War. The Soviets are gone, but the style of conflict remains: the security environment of the future may look more like the urban hell of Beirut, Sarajevo, or Baghdad where hand-held missiles and crude homemade bombs threaten air and ground movement, and more like the jungles of Vietnam or the mountains of Afghanistan, where the physical and human terrain negates or reduces the effectiveness of heavy weapons and high technology devices. Despite a large number of works that dealt with some aspect of low intensity conflict, none focused exclusively on the evolution of the Army's response to this security challenge. Understanding this evolution is important because the problems of terrorism, insurgency, peacekeeping, and contingency operations - the categories of low intensity conflict - took on new relevance in a world without the Soviet Union. The great bipolar confrontation had, for 45 years, submerged many of the world's ethnic, religious, and economic passions. The end of the Cold War gave these passions a new, violent and bloody freedom. Although interstate conflict remains a threat, many of the aforementioned passions give rise to internal conflicts which require the use of force in non-traditional ways. The Army did not respond well to the challenge in the past, costing thousands of American lives and setting up the only strategic defeat that the United States has suffered. By the early 1990s, the United States government once again determined that it wanted the capability to respond to these challenges. The changes in the early 1990s to the national strategy and the subordinate military strategy placed far greater emphasis on low intensity missions for the Army than had been the case since the early 1960s. Much of the post-Cold War Army would be based in the continental United States, and organized for rapid deployability in response to regional crises. Thus, the greater focus on conflict at the lower end of the spectrum colored the Army's, as well as the nation's, foreign policy abilities in the rest of the decade. Understanding the process of organizational change in the military, then, is necessary to the appropriate management of the Army's mission. If the Army does not prepare well to enact changed national strategy, the costs are quite high in human terms. And, as the defeat in Vietnam demonstrated, the political costs to the nation are quite high, too. We have now engaged in more than a decade of war after the 9-11 attacks, mostly of the low intensity variety. This book sets the stage for understanding the process the Army went through before it entered that decade, and can help us understand how the Army changed during the war.
Download or read book Low intensity Conflict written by Edwin G Corr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the cold war does not necessarily mean the end of the social and political instability that can lead to low-intensity conflicts. This book provides fresh insights into a difficult subject by bringing together knowledgeable contributors who have the academic expertise, operational experience, and strategic perspective essential to underst
Download or read book Low Intensity Conflict in the Third World written by Lewis B. Ware and published by . This book was released on 1988-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Low intensity Conflict written by James J. Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from current Army doctrine, this concise and readable manual offers combat leaders and staff officers tactical-level guidance for commanding, planning, coordinating, and controlling operations in a low-intensity environment.
Download or read book Operational Considerations for Military Involvement in Low Intensity Conflict written by Charles M. Ayers and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Low Intensity Conflict in the Third World written by Air University Press and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States must improve its ability to cope with low-intensity conflict. We must become a great deal better at fighting this kind of war. We may learn quickly, in which case we will be able to cope with low-intensity conflict in the near-term; or we may learn slowly, in which case we will suffer years of frustration. Low-intensity warfare represents an arena of conflict for today and for tomorrow. There can be little doubt that it poses important problems for American interests and policy. And yet, because of the confusion that surrounds the understanding of low-intensity conflict, the United States has been ill-prepared to face its consequences. This book is a serious effort to make thinking about low-intensity conflict more understandable and, thus, more accessible to those who would form our national response to this pressing issue. It counsels the reader that low-intensity conflict appears in the guise of proxy warfare, religious extremism, ethnic and racial rivalries, and on the heels of failed developmental projects. All these events threaten our friends, our allies, and ourselves. The Soviet Union and its proxies have come to the conclusion that the global system is vulnerable to low-intensity conflict. We can therefore expect more of it. Only when the United States has developed a flexible capacity to deal with its root causes around the world can we better secure our own interests and suppress Soviet efforts in this domain. The present volume takes a significant step toward framing the context in which a creative set of policies for low-intensity conflict can evolve. We all have a need to better understand this new, disturbing, and growing phenomenon. With that need in mind, we highly recommend it. Contents * FOREWORD * PREFACE * LOW-INTENSITY CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST * Dr. Lewis B. Ware * The Khomeinist Revolution * The Attempted Coup in Bahrain * The Lebanese Imbroglio * Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood * Islamism in Tunisia * Conclusion * Notes * SOVIET RUSSIA AND LOW-INTENSITY CONFLICT IN CENTRAL ASIA: THREE CASE STUDIES * Dr. Stephen Blank * The Basmachi Insurgency * The Iran Invasions * The Afghanistan Invasion * Notes * FACTORS AFFECTING THE EMERGENCE OF LOW-INTENSITY CONFLICT IN LATIN AMERICA * Dr. Bynum E. Weathers * Nicaragua * Chile * Peru * Conclusion * Notes * LOW-INTENSITY CONFLICT IN SOUTHERN AFRICA * Dr. Thomas P. Ofcansky * Zimbabwe * Namibia * Angola * Mozambique * South Africa * Conclusion * Notes * LOW-INTENSITY CONFLICT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: CHALLENGES, RESPONSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE UNITED STATES * Dr. Lawrence E. Grinter * Indonesia * The Philippines * Indochina * Conclusion * Notes * US POLICY AND STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR LOW-INTENSITY CONFLICT * Jerome W. Klingaman * Formulating Strategy for Low-Intensity Conflict * The Problem of Definition * Explicit Language: The Fall from Grace * The Significance of Low-Intensity Conflict * Strategy Implications * Notes
Download or read book Low Intensity Operations written by Frank Kitson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Low Intensity Operations is an important, controversial and prophetic book that has had a major influence on the conduct of modern warfare. First published in 1971, it was the result of an academic year Frank Kitson spent at University College, Oxford, under the auspices of the Ministry of Defence, to write a paper on the way in which the army should be prepared to deal with future insurgency and peacekeeping operations. Its findings and propositions are as striking as when the work was first published. 'To understand the nature of revolutionary warfare, one cannot do better than read Low Intensity Operations... The author has had unrivalled experience of such operations in many parts of the world.' Daily Telegraph 'A highly practical analysis of subversion, insurgency and peacekeeping operations... Frank Kitson's book is not merely timely but important.' The Economist
Download or read book Low intensity Conflict and Modern Technology written by Air University (U.S.). Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Operational Considerations for Military Involvement in Low Intensity Conflict CLIC PAPERS written by Charles M. Ayers and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to provide a framework for considering the military's role in low intensity conflict, the authors explain its meaning and components : peacekeeping, insurgency/counterinsurgency, combatting terrorism, and peacetime contingency operations. The authors conclude that: a) US determination to deter nuclear and conventional war has driven our adversaries consciously to turn to political violence to advance their political objectives; b) the strategic consequences of the unchecked low intensity conflict threat present the danger that a series of reversals will gradually isolate the US and its allies from the Third World and from each other; c) the oftentimes vague and diverse challenges of low intensity conflict are heightened by misconceptions of whether the US is at war or at peace; d) meeting the challenges requires an institutionalized understanding that moves away from thinking and acting in a manner appropriate to more traditional forms of conflict; and e) winning low intensity conflicts requires a continuing, long-term, national strategy that provides a comprehensive plan for all US military and civilian agencies.
