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‘Warfare in the 21 st century retains many of the characteristics it has exhibited since ancient times.
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The 2006 United States (U.S.) Counter-insurgency Manual states: Serious threat and challenge, displaying many of the same features that have In comparison with the great State conflicts that characterised the twentiethĬentury, it is important to note that insurgency warfare presents an equally Insurgency movements may seem to present a lesser challenge to world stability International stage, insurgency warfare has once again come to the fore. The ‘democratic peace’ prevailing among most of the Great Powers on the Today in the early decades of the twenty-first century, and with These events are likely to have strategic importance with subsequent global Of a State, on the occasions when they do, Historically insurgents rarely succeed in overthrowing the governing apparatus Significance of insurgent activity for the balance-of-power in the worldĪnd the global security landscape also varies when compared to that of inter-State
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These Great Powers), but decreases to ‘background noise’ once inter-State Waging conventional war (some insurgencies constituting ‘proxy wars’ fuelled by Increases and thrives during periods when great world powers refrain from Has been more the exception than the rule.’ Īccording to Metz & Millen, insurgency warfare generally Slugging matches indulged in by great states during the 20 th century
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Warfare, that has been the historical norm in world history. Warfare, involving irregular warring methods between belligerents of disparate fighting In short, throughout history insurgency warfare has been the Governments of Iraq and Afghanistan throughout the 2000s and 2010s, and the militaryĪnd civilian forces of supporting allied nations. Insurgency against Israel in and from the disputed Palestinian territories sinceĪgainst the newly-established, representative and democratically-elected South America, Malaya, the Philippines and most infamously Vietnam from Maoist ‘wars of national liberation’ first in China from 1934-49, then in Cuba, Movements for self-determination in former European colonies in Africa, AsiaĪnd South America over the next three decades
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Guerrilla resistance movements against invasion or occupation by Nazi Germanyĭuring the Second World War from 1939-1945 Guerrillas against the United States in 1916-1917 Iberian peninsula of Spain between 1808-1814 Guerrilla insurrection against Napoleon’s occupying French forces in the War of Independence against British rule and their loyalist allies from Uprisings of the Irish against the English Crown over nearly a millennium The Israelite nation against Imperial Roman rule in 66-77 A.D. Ĭertainly the historical record is rife with examples of However these ‘small wars’, or ‘wars among the peoples’ as they were once called, are in truth ‘an old, old story’ in the history of the world. Indeed, so abundant has the new counter-insurgency literature become that insurgencies seem often to be viewed as a new or modern phenomenon in world affairs. ‘low-intensity warfare’, and ‘asymmetric warfare’. ‘internal warfare’, ‘subconventional warfare’, ‘unrestricted warfare’, Practitioners over the following decade of the 2000s than in the previous fourĭecades combined, the term often used interchangeably with ‘irregular warfare’, Was written on counter-insurgency by political and military scholars and The subsequent punitive and pre-emptive U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Unprecedented significance since the 9/11 Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks of 2001 and The concepts of insurgency and counter-insurgency have taken on Insurgency Warfare: A Custom of Humankind in History Seek to inflict on established governing authorities įorms of warfare used by insurgents, namely terrorism, guerrilla tactics andĬycle of an insurgency, from beginning to end and lastly Psychological nature of insurgency warfare, and the 4 psychological effects insurgents To political and military practitioners, with regard to insurgent armed rebellionsĪnd the politico-military counter-insurgency warfare required by governingĪuthorities and their civilian and military forces to quell them.Ī common form of warfare in human history Insurgencies and is offered in the hope of supplying important additional information This appendix consists of a more in-depth examination of In a previous blog ‘ #31 BACKGROUND – COIN Warfare & the ISAF’s COIN Strategy: Battle for the Majority Population’, I briefly outlined the central theoretical doctrine and most important principles of Counter-Insurgency (COIN) warfare.