Counterinsurgency Warfare and Brutalisation
Counterinsurgency Warfare and Brutalisation This book offers the first analysis of the brutalisation paradigm in counter-insurgency warfare.Minimising the use of force and winning over the…
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Counterinsurgency Warfare and Brutalisation
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). 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. Yet, this tells only one side of the story.
It shows that, although appalling, brutalisation-centred measures can deliver success. It offers a comprehensive systematisation of the brutalisation paradigm and challenges the widespread assumption of brutalisation as an underperforming paradigm of COIN warfare. The book also outlines a stigmatised yet widely deployed set of
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