Making Sense of Proxy Wars
Public debate over surrogate forces and proxy warfare has been largely dormant since the end of the Cold War. The conventional wisdom has been that with the end of the U.S.- Soviet rivalry, state sources of support for proxy guerrilla, insurgent, and terrorist organizations dried up, forcing them to look to criminal activity to survive and precipitating the growth of dangerously independent and well-resourced militants, mercenaries, and warlords. But in the few years since 2001, a wide range of issues raised to prominence by wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere suggest that armed proxies, and the forces that drive and shape their use, are part of a larger dynamic. From the legacies of the wars in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Kashmir, to the growth of privatized security and military companies, and to increased reliance on intermediaries of all kinds, these surrogate forces bear further study. Making Sense of Proxy Wars is the first book to seriously challenge Cold War assumptions about terrorism and proxy warfare, offering an alternative view of armed surrogatesawhether they are private armies, indigenous militias, or unwilling victimsaas complex, selfinterested actors on the international stage.States, Surrogates aamp; the Use of Force Michael A. Innes ... How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them ( New York: Free Press, 2006), 6-7, 33-47; George Kassimeris, aThe Terrorism Industry: The Profits of Doom, a in Playing Politics with Terrorism: A Usera#39;s Guide, ed.
| Title | : | Making Sense of Proxy Wars |
| Author | : | Michael A. Innes |
| Publisher | : | Potomac Books, Inc. - 2012-05-01 |
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