Monographie

On absolute war : terrorism and the logic of armed conflict / Eric Fleury

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • On absolute war : terrorism and the logic of armed conflict / Eric Fleury
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • Lanham (Md.) [etc.] : Lexington books
Date de copyright
  • C 2019
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (X-201 p.) ; 24 cm
ISBN
  • 978-1-4985-6541-7
  • 1-4985-6541-7
EAN
  • 9781498565417
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 327.117 09
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. 181-196. Index
Note sur le contenu
  • Table of contents Preface and acknowledgments Terrorism and war Absolute war in theory and history The strategy of state-directed terrorism Strategy of non-state terrorism The absolute engagement The nature of battle today Bibliography Index About the author
Résumé ou extrait
  • Présentation de l'éditeur : "The United States and its allies have long sought to inflict a decisive defeat upon groups such as Al Qaeda and ISIS, while regarding their individual members as malevolent criminals undeserving of combatant status. A clearer understanding of how terrorists define victory, and how their method of fighting relates to conventional military forces, is necessary in order to devise more realistic and effective strategies of counterterrorism. On Absolute War constructs a theoretical framework for the study of terrorism based on Carl von Clausewitz's On War, widely regarded as the greatest analysis of war ever written. Through a review of Clausewitz's work and a set of historical case studies ranging from the Fenian Dynamite Campaign of the 1880s to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Prof. Fleury reveals just how closely terrorism mimics the logic of war."
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