Violence in context: Mapping the strategies and operational art of irregular warfare
Violence in context: Mapping the strategies and operational art of irregular warfare
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背景下的暴力：绘制非常规战争的战略和作战艺术
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2018
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T. Marks
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David H. Ucko;T. Marks
美国和西方国家在最近的战争中所经历的不安，在很大程度上源于对战争、战争的政治本质以及将两者结合起来所需的战略的不清晰的思考。相反，分析和反应是基于根深蒂固的理论概念，实际效用有限。由于认识不足，产生了一些新的、但并不那么新的术语，以反映意料之外的趋势，首先是重新发现“叛乱”和“反叛乱”，并导致对“混合威胁”和“灰色地带”行动的讨论。新的术语可以有所帮助，但变化必须更深入。这篇文章遵循分析的正统，提出了一个统一的方法来研究政治暴力，或者更准确地说：暴力政治。它提供了一个概念基础，有助于理解战争的最新变化。实际上，它为战略的本质提供了急需的理论见解，并指导了应对非传统威胁的过程。
ABSTRACT The malaise that the United States, and the West, have experienced in recent campaigns stems in large part from unclear thinking about war, its political essence, and the strategies needed to join the two. Instead, analysis and response are predicated on entrenched theoretical concepts with limited practical utility. The inadequacy of understanding has spawned new, and not so new, terms to capture unanticipated trends, starting with the re-discovery of “insurgency” and “counterinsurgency” and leading to discussion of “hybrid threats” and “gray-zone” operations. New terminology can help, but the change must go deeper. Challenging analytical orthodoxy, this article sets out a unifying approach for the study of political violence, or more accurately: violent politics. It provides a conceptual foundation that helps to make sense of recent shifts in warfare. In effect, it offers sorely needed theoretical insights into the nature of strategy and guides the process of responding to nontraditional threats.