Clausewitz and Low-Intensity Conflict

Kinross, Stuart

doi:10.1080/0140239042000232765

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“…We can still read with profit Thucydides's brilliant, if dangerously unique, account of the great war between Athens and Sparta. Similarly, contrary to the claims of some scholars (Honig, 1997;Kaldor, 1999;van Creveld, 1991), Clausewitz composed a general theory of war that fits all periods, all character of belligerents, and all technological and social contexts (Bassford, 1994;Gray, forthcoming;Kinross, 2004).…”

Section: Alas Some Fatal Flawsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Sandcastle of Theory

Gray

2005

American Behavioral Scientist

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Amitai Etzioni’s communitarianism offers an attractive but impractical vision. The global threats that he cites as engines for a communitarian future are not convincing as the triggers for epochal benign change in human security arrangements. Communitarianism has four especially fatal flaws: it is too large an idea and as a consequence, it overreaches; it poses the wrong question, and therefore provides a wrong answer; it rests on the fallacy that history can register a grand benign transformation in security affairs; and it assumes, unreasonably, that struggles for power and influence among the greater powers will not occur in the future.

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Section: Alas Some Fatal Flawsmentioning

confidence: 95%

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Gray

2005

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…En todo caso, los conflictos de baja intensidad no han sido lo suficientemente estudiados, lo que ha provocado que su evolución sea lenta y desproporcionada. Esta deficiencia de estudios estratégicos al respecto tiene una influencia muy notoria de los postulados de Clausewitz, dada la naturaleza de la guerra, los medios para el desarrollo de esa estrategia y, finalmente, los choques masivos de fuerzas armadas organizadas (Kinross, 2004). Según Francisco Pineda (1996):…”

Section: Guerras De Baja Intensidad O Low Intensity Conflictunclassified

Guerras híbridas, irrestrictas, asimétricas y jurídicas en el nuevo orden mundial

Sierra-Zamora¹,

Castaño-Bedoya²

2022

Rev. Cient. Gen. José María Córdova

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Los conflictos actuales, con sus nuevas amenazas, sus distintos niveles de intensidad y su hibridación entre conflictos convencionales y conflictos irregulares, implican nuevos desafíos ante los cuales la inteligencia estratégica de los Estados a veces se queda rezagada. Este artículo analiza las transformaciones de las guerras en el desarrollo del sistema internacional a través de tres ejes temáticos. En primer lugar, se abordan las transformaciones de los instrumentos y métodos de las guerras híbridas, irrestrictas y asimétricas. En segundo lugar, se analizan los niveles de intensidad de los conflictos y lo que esto implica en cuanto a las amenazas y su conducción estratégica. Finalmente, se analiza el lawfare o las guerras jurídicas y su uso para el interés estratégico de algunos actores, en una mezcla de la estrategia político-militar con el derecho en el nuevo orden mundial.

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“…Although we would expect large-scale disaster events to lead to an immediate outcry for international aid, governments involved in LIC settings may have the opposite reaction, minimising the need for aid to keep ‘foreign influences’ out (Kinross 2004). Indeed, as the legitimacy of the state is already internally under threat (Ghani & Lockhart 2009), humanitarian actors’ access may be fraught by contradictions between a national government claiming sovereign control over the response and the desire of international agencies to safeguard a neutral and independent space for humanitarian action.…”

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The humanitarian theatre: drought response during Ethiopia's low-intensity conflict of 2016

2019

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This article aims to rekindle the debate on the politics of aid in the increasingly common – yet still under-studied – authoritarian and low-intensity conflict settings, detailing the case of Ethiopia in 2016, when a 50-year drought coincided with a wave of protests and a state of emergency. During four months of qualitative fieldwork in 2017, state, civil society, Ethiopian and international actors were approached – from humanitarian headquarters to communities in the Amhara, Oromiya and Somali regions. Research participants relayed stark discrepancies between the humanitarian theatre's ‘frontstage’, where disaster responders showcase an exemplary response, and its ‘backstage’, where they remove their frontstage masks and reflect on the information, the decision-making monopoly of the state and the intrusion of conflict dynamics into the humanitarian response. In humanitarian research and in policy, a collective conversation is necessary on where to draw the line between respect for governments’ sovereignty and the intrusion of humanitarian principles.

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Clausewitz and Low-Intensity Conflict

Cited by 36 publications

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Guerras híbridas, irrestrictas, asimétricas y jurídicas en el nuevo orden mundial

The humanitarian theatre: drought response during Ethiopia's low-intensity conflict of 2016

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