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Stephen L. Weigert - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Guerrilla and Conventional Warfare (1978–90)
    Angola, 2011
    Co-Authors: Stephen L. Weigert
    Abstract:

    International and regional intervention in the Angolan civil war added layers of complexity to the military strategy Luanda and its opponents employed. The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola’s (UNITA’s) renewed conduct of a Maoist-inspired guerrilla war challenged Luanda and its patrons to devise a counterinsurgency strategy. Neither Moscow nor Havana responded successfully, in part because they also faced a South African military challenge that combined Conventional military operations with support for UNITA’s guerrillas. The intensification of hostilities, and the extension of combat to Angola’s 18 provinces, made the next phase of the war much more destructive than the 14-year anticolonial struggle. The war to end Portuguese colonialism had been limited to remote and sparsely populated regions and casualties, by the early 1970s, numbered in the thousands. The postindependence war devastated a much larger portion of Angola’s infrastructure and inflicted many more military and civilian casualties, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths by the late 1980s.

  • guerrilla and Conventional Warfare 1978 90
    2011
    Co-Authors: Stephen L. Weigert
    Abstract:

    International and regional intervention in the Angolan civil war added layers of complexity to the military strategy Luanda and its opponents employed. The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola’s (UNITA’s) renewed conduct of a Maoist-inspired guerrilla war challenged Luanda and its patrons to devise a counterinsurgency strategy. Neither Moscow nor Havana responded successfully, in part because they also faced a South African military challenge that combined Conventional military operations with support for UNITA’s guerrillas. The intensification of hostilities, and the extension of combat to Angola’s 18 provinces, made the next phase of the war much more destructive than the 14-year anticolonial struggle. The war to end Portuguese colonialism had been limited to remote and sparsely populated regions and casualties, by the early 1970s, numbered in the thousands. The postindependence war devastated a much larger portion of Angola’s infrastructure and inflicted many more military and civilian casualties, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths by the late 1980s.

Jeffrey T G Kelsey - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • hacking into international humanitarian law the principles of distinction and neutrality in the age of cyber Warfare
    Michigan Law Review, 2008
    Co-Authors: Jeffrey T G Kelsey
    Abstract:

    Cyber Warfare is an emerging form of Warfare not explicitly addressed by existing international law. While most agree that legal restrictions should apply to cyber Warfare, the international community has yet to reach consensus on how international humanitarian law ("IHL") applies to this new form of conflict. After providing an overview of the global Internet structure and outlining several cyber Warfare scenarios, this Note argues that violations of the traditional principles of distinction and neutrality are more likely to occur in cyber Warfare than in Conventional Warfare. States have strong incentives to engage in prohibited cyber attacks, despite the risk of war crimes accusations. This Note argues that belligerents will violate the principle of distinction more frequently in cyber Warfare than in Conventional Warfare. Many cyber attacks will unavoidably violate neutrality law, making these violations more likely in cyber conflicts than in Conventional wars. Rather than condemn all uses of cyber weapons, this Note argues that IHL should evolve to encourage the use of cyber Warfare in some situations and provide states better guidance in the conduct of these attacks.

Theodore A. Cisowski - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • United States and UnConventional Warfare
    2009
    Co-Authors: Theodore A. Cisowski
    Abstract:

    Abstract : Given the success of terrorist organizations against the United States since 1983 it is prudent to ask if nations will pursue unConventional engagements with the United States. According to the National Defense Strategy, "U.S. dominance in Conventional Warfare has given prospective adversaries, particularly non-state actors and their state sponsors, strong motivation to adopt asymmetric methods to counter our advantages. For this reason, we must display a mastery of irregular Warfare comparable to that which we possess in Conventional combat." What are the implications for future National Defense Strategies? The United States of America is no stranger to unConventional Warfare. The? American Revolution was the United States' first experience in terrorism and guerrilla Warfare. The National Defense Strategy of 2008 states that the Conventional Warfare dominance of the United States will remain unchecked for the foreseeable future. However, despite its ability to defeat a Conventional enemy, the United States has shown an inability to effectively deal with an enemy, either nation-state or non-state actor, that employs terrorism and asymmetric Warfare as a means to engage in combat. The United States' Conventional dominance has been no deterrent to terrorism. While the immediate adversaries in the Global War on Terrorism campaign are Al Qaeda and its allies, the reality exists that legitimate nation-states would resort to unConventional Warfare operations iIi order to defeat the United States in a future conflict. Iran supports terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan. Additionally, Iran continues to develop nuclear technology. The United States must be prepared to face nations, like China, that have a far broader program for unConventional Warfare that includes cyber, satellite, economic, diplomatic, and information Warfare.

Collins D Cockrell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Gray Zone Warfare: German and Russian Political Warfare, 1935-1939, and 2001
    2017
    Co-Authors: Collins D Cockrell
    Abstract:

    Abstract : Nation states face heightened threats from methods of Warfare from other nation states traditionally viewed as unConventional or irregular. Understanding these methods is important to the study of Warfare. Gray Zone Warfare: German and Russian Political Warfare 1935-1939, and 2014 examines efforts by pre-World War Two Germany and the current Russian state to apply Political Warfare to achieve strategic foreign policy goals, short of Conventional Warfare. Political Warfare undermined institutions, influenced foreign and domestic populations and weakened and disrupted alliances. Using structured, focused comparison case study method, this thesis examines Political Warfare between these two widely separated periods.

Robert C. Piddock - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.