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Chinese war in Southeast Asia’s Frontier: contesting Kokang’s Chinese identity on Myanmar-China Border conflict 中国在东南亚边境的战争：在中缅边境冲突中质疑果敢的中国身份

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Small Wars and Insurgencies Pub Date : 2023-08-22 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2247518

Danny Widiatmo, Abellia Anggi Wardani

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Parmanu: the story of Pokhran (2018)- the saffronization of India’s quest for a nuclear weapon Parmanu: Pokhran的故事(2018)-印度寻求核武器的藏红花化

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Small Wars and Insurgencies Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2242624

C. C. Fair

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The challenges of military adaptation to the cyber domain: a case study of the Netherlands 军事适应网络领域的挑战：以荷兰为例

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Small Wars and Insurgencies Pub Date : 2023-07-13 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2233159

M. Smeets

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Counterinsurgency as order-making: refining the concepts of insurgency and counterinsurgency in light of the Somali civil war 反叛乱作为秩序的制定:从索马里内战的角度提炼叛乱和反叛乱的概念

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Small Wars and Insurgencies Pub Date : 2023-07-11 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2231203

M. Skjelderup, Mukhtar Ainashe

{"title":"Counterinsurgency as order-making: refining the concepts of insurgency and counterinsurgency in light of the Somali civil war","authors":"M. Skjelderup, Mukhtar Ainashe","doi":"10.1080/09592318.2023.2231203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2023.2231203","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, we argue that the current insurgency and counterinsurgency discourse is dominated by concepts that are too narrow and too isolated from the wider civil war literature within which insurgency and counterinsurgency occur. Rather than accounting for the complex political processes and wide range of forces and actors that shape conflict dynamics, the dominant insurgency and counterinsurgency debate tends to reduce highly messy contexts to a competition between the often false dichotomy of insurgents and counterinsurgents, usually understood as the state versus one or more non-state violent actors. In order to understand civil war contexts like South-Central Somalia, we argue that orthodox reductionist concepts and assumptions underpinning the dominant insurgency and counterinsurgency discourse provide limited value. Building on recent critical literature, the paper proposes a refined conceptualization. Instead of understanding insurgency and counterinsurgency as peculiar forms of war, strategies, or sets of guerilla tactics, we follow Jaqueline Hazelton’s line of thought, suggesting that insurgency and counterinsurgency are mere elements of a broader process of violent order-making. Thus, insurgency and counterinsurgency are, in our view, comprehensive processes of organized challenge to and consolidation of established political order within the context of civil war.","PeriodicalId":46215,"journal":{"name":"Small Wars and Insurgencies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44278629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Guerrillas in our midst: Reflections on the British experience of counter-insurgency in popular fiction 我们中间的游击队:通俗小说对英国平叛经验的反思

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Small Wars and Insurgencies Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2022.2067441

G. Hughes

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Insurgencies & organized crime: the essential elements of information 叛乱与有组织犯罪：信息的基本要素

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Small Wars and Insurgencies Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2227408

L. Cline

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Exploring factors and implications of violence against civilians: a case study of the Soviet-Afghan war 探讨针对平民的暴力的因素和影响:以苏联-阿富汗战争为例

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Small Wars and Insurgencies Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2231198

Justin Magula

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Introduction 介绍

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Small Wars and Insurgencies Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2229183

Paul B. Rich

{"title":"Introduction","authors":"Paul B. Rich","doi":"10.1080/09592318.2023.2229183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2023.2229183","url":null,"abstract":"Cinema together with novels and short stories can provide valuable insights into war and military conflict. These include conflicts fought by insurgent movements and the various counter-insurgencies waged by states to resist, contain, and, on occasions, defeat them. Film and literature can be valuable aids in the teaching of unconventional or irregular wars and the examination of their wider public mythologies. Cinema is necessarily a great simplifier, often taking myths from stories, legends, and plays and transforming them into spectacles for popular audiences. Some of the major themes tackled by this war cinema derive from various military conflicts both ancient and modern: courage, heroism, and honour along with cowardice and incompetence; romance and the frequent breakdown of domestic relationships of some of those involved in military conflicts; the strategic rationale and competence of senior commanders and political leaders; the traumatic impact of warfare on those fighting in it and the frequently shabby treatment of veterans returning home. The theme explored in this short special issue is the myth of the warrior and soldier hero and its replacement in several films since the 1960s of antiwar images of the soldier as victim and aggressor. The shift is interesting for the way it has often occurred in films that are not situated in interstate wars and grand set piece battles, such as those of World Wars One and Two, but in messier and protracted smaller-scale conflicts such as the Anglo Boer War of 1899–1902, post-war British colonial ‘emergencies’, the Vietnam War and ‘the troubles’ in Northern Ireland. The four papers published here thus mark a useful addition to the scholarly study of cinema and irregular or unconventional war in contrast to the wider and better-known work on conventional war. Guerrilla Warfare has only recently begun to be examined by film studies analysts and cinema critics after a long period when it was largely subsumed within the wider rubric of war cinema. While there may be some rationale for this approach in terms of a tidiness of subject matter, those studying guerrilla","PeriodicalId":46215,"journal":{"name":"Small Wars and Insurgencies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41407202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The insurgent’s dilemma: A struggle to prevail 反叛者的困境:一场取胜的斗争

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Small Wars and Insurgencies Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2232674

Nelson Kasfir

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Narco drones: tracing the evolution of cartel aerial tactics in Mexico’s low-intensity conflicts Narco无人机：追踪墨西哥低强度冲突中卡特尔空中战术的演变

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Small Wars and Insurgencies Pub Date : 2023-06-18 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2226382

Ghaleb Krame, Vlado Vivoda, A. Davies

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