Understanding Insurgent Resilience

Organizational Structures and the Implications for Counterinsurgency
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-49427-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 477 g

Reihe: Cass Military Studies

This book examines terrorist and insurgent organisations and seeks to understand how such groups persist for so long, while introducing a new strategic doctrine for countering these organisations.

The work discusses whether familial or meritocratic insurgencies are more resilient to counterinsurgency pressures. It argues that it is not the type of organization that determines resilience, but rather the efficiency functions of social capital and trust, which have different natures and forms, within them. It finds that while familial insurgencies can challenge incumbents from the start, they weaken over time, whereas meritocracies will generally strengthen. The book examines four of the most enduring and lethal insurgent organizations: the Haqqani Network in Afghanistan, Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan, Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia, and the Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines. The author breaks down each group into its formative strengths and vulnerabilities and presents a bespoke model of strategic counterintelligence that can be used to manipulate, degrade and destroy each organization.

This book will be of much interest to students of counterinsurgency, terrorism, intelligence, security and defence studies in general.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Henshaw, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Nachrichtendienste, Geheimdienste
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction to Insurgency and the Function of Organizations 1. Introduction 2. The Foundations of Resilience Part II: Real World Analysis 3. The Haqqani Network 4. Lashkar-e-Taiba 5. Jemaah Islamiyah 6. Abu Sayyaf 7. Findings Part III: A New Approach 8. Strategic Counterintelligence

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew D. Henshaw is an independent advisor to governments on defence and intelligence issues. He has 27 years’ experience in military Special Forces and Counterintelligence operations and has a PhD from Macquarie University, Australia.