Counterinsurgency Warfare and Brutalisation
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Counterinsurgency Warfare and Brutalisation

The Second Russian-Chechen War

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Counterinsurgency Warfare and Brutalisation

The Second Russian-Chechen War

About this book

This book offers the first analysis of the brutalisation paradigm in counter-insurgency warfare.

Minimising the use of force and winning over the population's opinion is said to be the cornerstone of success in modern counterinsurgency (COIN). Yet, this tells only one side of the story. Drawing upon primary data collected during interviews with eyewitnesses of the Second Russian-Chechen War, as well as from secondary sources, this book is the first to offer a detailed analysis of the long-neglected logic underpinning brutalisation-centred COIN campaigns. It offers a comprehensive systematisation of the brutalisation paradigm and challenges the widespread assumption of brutalisation as an underperforming paradigm of COIN warfare. It shows that, although appalling, brutalisation-centred measures can deliver success. The book also outlines a stigmatised yet widely deployed set of COIN measures and provides critical insights into how Western military blueprints can be improved without compromising important moral and ethical requirements.

This book will be of much interest to students of counterinsurgency, military and strategic studies, Russian politics, and International Relations.

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Yes, you can access Counterinsurgency Warfare and Brutalisation by Roberto Colombo,Emil Aslan Souleimanov in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Military & Maritime History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781032035796
eBook ISBN
9781000456073

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of tables
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. List of abbreviations
  12. 1 Introduction
  13. 2 Conceptualising population-centric counterinsurgency warfare
  14. 3 Theory and practice of brutalisation in counterinsurgency warfare
  15. 4 The brutalisation paradigm in Chechnya and elsewhere
  16. 5 Conclusion
  17. Index