The Future Faces Of Irregular Warfare:great Power Competition In The 21st Century

The Future Faces Of Irregular Warfare:great Power Competition In The 21st Century
Title:
The Future Faces Of Irregular Warfare:Great Power Competition in the 21st Century
Agency Publisher: 
Format:
Paperback
USA Price: 
Stock:
Preorder
GPO Stock Number:
008-000-01391-8
Description

The Irregular Warfare Center’s first book, The Future Faces of Irregular Warfare: Great Power Competition in the 21st Century, is an edited volume of essays on the future evolutions and trends of irregular warfare and competition. Written by leading scholars and practitioners of irregular warfare and national security, the book presents a forward-leaning analysis of how irregular warfare (IW) between the U.S. and its competitors is likely to play out in several key theatres, such as the Indo-Pacific and the Baltics, and in particular issue sets, such as climate change, misinformation and disinformation, economic coercion, and counterterrorism.

Table of Contents

Foreword 7

Introduction 13

Defining Irregular Warfare: Legitimacy, Violence, and Politics 19

Irregular Competition: Contemporary Lessons Learned and Implications for the Future of Irregular Warfare 33

Towards a Better Irregular Warfare Strategy: A Contrarian View 53

Cheap Toys and Deadly Results: The Rise of Guerrilla Air Forces 72

Legal Gamesmanship: How China and Russia Use International Law in Geopolitical Competition 89

How Russia, China, and Iran Weaponize Information for Internal Social Control and External Influence 106

Russia and Ukraine: Three Lessons in Economic Warfare 124

The American Way of Proxy War Rethinking U.S. Unconventional Warfare Doctrine and Concepts in the Context of Modern Irregular Warfare and Strategic Competition 143

Terrorism and Irregular Warfare: The Four-Headed Challenge of Massed Terrorists, Terrorist Dispersal, State-Sponsored Terrorism, and Terrorist Franchising 161

China’s Little Blue Men 184

Russia’s “Special” Way of War: SOF, Spetsnaz, and Irregular Warfare 201

Climate Change, Conflict, and Instability: Implications for Irregular Warfare 220

Total Defense: Nordic and Baltic Perspectives on Irregular Warfare 236

The United States’ Maginot Mentality 251

Great Power Confrontation in the 21st Century for the Baltic States 268

National Security Challenges and Irregular Warfare in the 21st Century 282

Acknowledgments 289

Endnotes 290

Product Details

Availability Details:
Available for Pre-order
USA Price:
$21.99
International Price:
$30.79
Quantity Price:
Discount
Cover:
Paper
Unit of Issue (US):
1
Unit of Issue (Non-US):
1
Record Creation Date:
01/07/2025
Last Status Update:
01/10/2025
Back to Top