This book starts out with a quick examination of the war that the United States has waged since Setpember 2001, examining it not as a "Global War on Terror" (GWOT), but as a global insurgency and counterinsurgency. al Qaeda and its affiliates comprise a novel and evolving form of networked insurgents who operate globally. They have harnessed the advantages of globalization. They employ terrorism as tactics, subsuming this terror within their overaching aims to undermine the Western system of states. Placing the war against al Qaeda and its allied groups and organizations in the context of a gobal insurgency also presents implications for doctrine, interagency coordination, and military cultural change. Military cultural change is a precondition to military transformation. This book views the current war as an evolving insurgency of a new kind. While it has some similarities to twentieth-century revolutionary guerrilla war, it also engenders differences. Two things are certain-this evolving hybird form of insurgency remains the strategy of the weak, and it embraces the hit-and-run tactics associated with guerrillas. The book combines the foremost maxims of the most prominent Western philosopher of war and the most renowned Eastern philosopher of war to arrive at this threefold overarching theme: know the enemy, know yourself, and know what kind of war you are embarking upon.
Format: Paperback (211 Pages)
Author: Robert M. Cassidy
Shipping Weight (lbs): .83
