Insurgency's Third Wave
How Insurgent Innovation is Changing Contemporary Warfare
Insurgency's Third Wave
How Insurgent Innovation is Changing Contemporary Warfare
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This study approaches insurgency as a form of strategy, comprising of three waves: The first running from the 1920s -1990s and dominated by Maoist "people's war" and its variants, the second running from the 1990s to the present and characterized by reliance on terrorism, the merging of insurgency and crime and increased transnationalization. The third wave, currently in its early stages, is characterized by increased innovation by insurgents in response to technological, political, strategic and informational trends.
Steven Metz identifies various aspects of the third wave of insurgency including increasing transnationalization, new extremist ideologies, network-and-node organizational forms, and crucially the integration of new technology. While the third wave is still in its early stages, this book proposes a range of alternative new insurgency strategies and predicts which will gain prominence in the future.
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Table of Contents
2 The First Wave: People's War
3 The Second Wave: Transnational Criminal and Spiritual Insurgency
4 The Drivers of Change in the Global Strategic Environment
5 The Third Wave
6 Conclusion: Potential Paths of Insurgent Evolution
Index
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| Published | 15 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9780755627202 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Studies in Contemporary Warfare |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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