Strategic Subversion: From Terrorists to Superpowers, How State and Non-state Actors Undermine One Another - Brossura

Kruger, Gary

 
9781665513685: Strategic Subversion: From Terrorists to Superpowers, How State and Non-state Actors Undermine One Another
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ISBN 10: 1665513683 ISBN 13: 9781665513685
Casa editrice: AuthorHouse, 2021

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How did the United States defeat the Soviet Union from its own backyard? How is China undermining freedom of the sea? Are these subversive activities new or do they reflect ancient wars? This book explores how state and non-state actors subvert one another. The core question is: why do strategies of subversion, whereby a weaker political entity undermines the dominant entity within a system to increase the weaker entity's relative power, appear to have so many commonalities across different situations and by both state and non-state actors? I theorize that underlying principles exist within all subversive strategies. This question is timely amid a rising China, aggressive Russia, rogue Iran, and a global Salafi-Jihadist insurgency. The current US National Security Strategy identifies these challenges as four of the five greatest threats to US national security. These challenges each involve entities subverting US dominance as a major component of adversary strategies. This new theory, the theory of strategic subversion, outlines fundamental principles regarding strategies of subversion to better enable policy makers and analysts to understand and respond to current security challenges. This book reviews existing literature on subversive strategies and synthesizes a new fundamental theory. The book then tests the theory of strategic subversion against four case studies: US support to the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan, Rising Athens at the onset of the Peloponnesian Wars, China's current rise, and Russian subversion.

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Editore
AuthorHouse
Data di pubblicazione
2021
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1665513683
ISBN 13 
9781665513685
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
140
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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