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The counter-insurgency manual : tactics of the anti-guerrilla professionals / by Thompson, Leroy,1944-(CARDINAL)169119;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index.
Subjects: Counterinsurgency.;
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Armed forces & modern counter-insurgency / by Beckett, Ian F. W.(Ian Frederick William),1950-(CARDINAL)162429; Pimlott, John,1948-(CARDINAL)134725;
Includes bibliographies and index.
Subjects: Counterinsurgency; Military history, Modern;
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Modern insurgencies and counter-insurgencies : guerrillas and their opponents since 1750 / by Beckett, Ian F. W.(Ian Frederick William),1950-(CARDINAL)162429;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Counterinsurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Military history, Modern.;
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The counterrevolution : how our government went to war against its own citizens / by Harcourt, Bernard E.,1963-author.(CARDINAL)276086;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United States--one rooted in the modes of warfare originally developed to suppress anticolonial revolutions and, more recently, to prosecute the war on terror. The Counterrevolution is a penetrating and disturbing account of the rise of counterinsurgency, first as a military strategy but increasingly as a way of ruling ordinary Americans. Harcourt shows how counterinsurgency's principles--bulk intelligence collection, ruthless targeting of minorities, pacifying propaganda--have taken hold domestically despite the absence of any radical uprising. This counterrevolution against phantom enemies, he argues, is the tyranny of our age. Seeing it clearly is the first step to resisting it effectively. - IPage
Subjects: Electronic surveillance; Counter-insurgency; Civil-military relations;
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The future of war : a history / by Freedman, Lawrence,author.(CARDINAL)137947;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-361) and index.Decisive battle -- Indecisive battle -- The house of strife -- Victory through cruelty -- Failures of peace -- Total war -- The balance of terror -- Stuck in the nuclear age -- A surprise peace -- A science of war -- Counting the dead -- Democracy and war -- New wars and failed states -- Ancient hatreds and mineral curses -- Intervention -- Counter-insurgency to counter-terrorism -- From counter-terrorism to counter-insurgency -- The role of barbarism -- Cure not prevention -- Hybrid wars -- Cyberwar -- Robots and drones -- Mega-cities and climate change -- Coming wars -- The future of the future of war.Questions about the future of war are a regular feature of political debate, strategic analysis, and popular fiction. Where should we look for new dangers? What cunning plans might an aggressor have in mind? What are the best forms of defense? How might peace be preserved or conflict resolved? From the French rout at Sedan in 1870 to the relentless contemporary insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, Lawrence Freedman, a world-renowned military thinker, reveals how most claims from the military futurists are wrong. But they remain influential nonetheless. Freedman shows how those who have imagined future war have often had an idealized notion of it as confined, brief, and decisive, and have regularly taken insufficient account of the possibility of long wars--hence the stubborn persistence of the idea of a knockout blow, whether through a dashing land offensive, nuclear first strike, or cyberattack. He also notes the lack of attention paid to civil wars until the West began to intervene in them during the 1990s, and how the boundaries between peace and war, between the military, the civilian, and the criminal are becoming increasingly blurred. Freedman's account of a century and a half of warfare and the (often misconceived) thinking that precedes war is a challenge to hawks and doves alike, and puts current strategic thinking into a bracing historical perspective.
Subjects: War; War; War;
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Full metal panic!. [manga] by Gatō, Shōji.(CARDINAL)487225; Shikidouji.(CARDINAL)560115; Arntz, Benjamin.(CARDINAL)483697;
MARCIVE 06/10/08The story of gung-ho young secret agent Sosuke Sagara, assigned to go undercover and protect high-school honor-student Kaname Chidori from a band of international terrorists. Needless to say, Sosuke's background as a counter insurgent guerilla isn't the best possible preparation for high school! In this volume, a member of the terrorist group A21 has a psychotic episode and is taken into custody. When Tessa and Kalinin are called in to question him, they fall under attack by other A21 members.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Science fiction.; Spy fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Bodyguards; High school students; Teenage girls; Terrorists;
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Darfur : a 21st century genocide / by Prunier, Gérard.(CARDINAL)682114;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243) and index.Independent Darfur: land, people, history -- Darfur and Khartoum (1916-1985): an unhappy relationship -- From marginalization to revolt: manipulated "Arabism" and "racial" anarchy (1985-2003) -- Fear at the centre: form counter-insurgency to quasi-genocide (2003-2005) -- The world and the Darfur crisis -- Death on the installment plan.
Subjects: Genocide;
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Counter force / by Pendleton, Don,1927-1995,author.(CARDINAL)767116;
When Iraqi insurgents detain a regiment of Marines during their attempt to withdraw from Iraq, the international incident incites retribution killings in Montana by a militia of former veterans.
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Spy fiction.; Stony Man (Imaginary organization) ; Intelligence service; Terrorism; Hostages;
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Darfur : the ambiguous genocide / by Prunier, Gérard.(CARDINAL)682114;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-227) and index.1. Independent Darfur : land, people, history -- The economy and the lie of the land -- Population : a complex ethnic mosaic -- The independent Darfur Sultanate -- Umm Kwakiyya, the time of the bandits -- Ali Dinar and Darfur's last independent years (1898-1916) -- 2. Darfur and Khartoum (1916-1985) : an unhappy relationship -- Colonial benign neglect : romanticism and underdevelopment -- On the margins of history : Darfur and Sudanese nationalism -- Reaching for the centre : the frustrations of democratic politics in Darfur -- The Chadian-Libyan factor : a fundamental element of destabilization -- From maladministration to famine : the 1984 catastrophe -- 3. From marginalization to revolt : manipulated "Arabism" and "racial" anarchy (1985-2003) -- Consequences of the 1984 famine -- Khartoum's "democratic" politics an the Chadian conflict -- Libya's "victory" in Chad, a new Darfur famine and the Daud Bolad insurrection -- Centre versus periphery : Darfur in a global Sudanese perspective -- 4. Fear at the centre : from counter-insurgency to quasi-genocide (2003-2005) -- Centre versus centre : the Islamists' internal quarrels and their spillover into Darfur -- Naivasha and the "feel good factor" -- Khartoum wakes up to the danger -- "Counter-insurgency on the cheap" -- Improvising a "final solution" -- Foreign intervention and death by attrition -- 5. The world and the Darfur crisis -- Media coverage : surfing on the horror charts -- Embattled humanitarianism -- "Shuffling papers while Africans die" : the international community and the Darfur crisis -- Was there a genocide in Darfur or not? -- 6. Darfur Agonistes -- Six months of unfulfilled hopes after the CPA -- The race between peace and growing anarchy -- The growing ethnic anarchy -- The Chadian civil war and its increasing impact -- A false solution: the Darfur Peace Agreement.
Subjects: Genocide;
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Afghanistan : what everyone needs to know® / by Rubin, Barnett R.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.1 Afghanistan Seen by Others -- 2 The Land and the People --3 State and Politics -- 4 Communist Coup, Islamic Resistance --5 Civil War: Islamic State to Islamic Emirate -- 6. 9/11, International Intervention, and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan --7. Reconstruction and Development -- 8. Narcotics and Counter-Narcotics --9. More War, Insurgency, and Counterinsurgency -- 10. Peace or More War?"Through much of the twentieth century Afghanistan seemed to be a distant concern in the U.S. "Afghanistanism" used to be journalistic shorthand for stories about distant places that editors dismissed as irrelevant. Afghanistan's territory does include some remote, barely accessible regions, but it also includes ancient metropolises such as Balkh, Herat, Kabul, and Kandahar that through much of history were crossroads for commerce and the spread of ideas, including religions and artistic styles. Afghanistan's period of isolation was not an inevitable consequence of its location; it was the result of the policies of the British and Russian colonial empires. In the late 19th and 20th century, those empires agreed to make Afghanistan a buffer state separating their two empires. The only foreign representative would be a Muslim representative of British India, which controlled Afghanistan's foreign affairs. That arrangement has broken down so thoroughly, that Afghanistan is now the opposite of a buffer state.Instead of preventing conflict by separating empires or states, it has become an arena where others act out proxy conflicts. The Soviet invasion of December 1979 turned the country into the hottest conflict of a supposedly Cold War. The Afghan state collapsed in the 1990s as a result of that proxy war and the breakup of the USSR, which had been funding the state. The country then became the arena of conflict among regional powers - Pakistan versus Iran, Russia, and India - but also a zone of competitionover pipeline routes among the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and Iran."--
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