Military Resilience In Low-Intensity Conflict

Description: Military Resilience in a Low-Intensity Conflict: A Comparative Study of New Directions Worldwide, by Rachel Suissa, offers a prognosis for the dilemma of army resilience in the post-modern era. She clarifies the concept of military resilience among the challenges of the twenty-first century, examining how the military model affects resilience, and how those effects are expressed during the management of a given conflict. She investigates the issue through a comparative study of armies and states which have been involved or are currently involved in low intensity conflicts-the countries discussed include France and Algeria, Great Britain and Ireland, Russia and Chechnya, and Israel and the Palestinian authority. Another challenge that Suissa addresses is that of peace coalitions and their organizational resilience. She further discusses the connection between political and military ranks, and under which conditions the former affects the latter. Military Resilience in a Low-Intensity Conflict makes the issues associated with resilience and conflict accessible to both academics and those who might translate its findings into practicable insights.



Contents: Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Theoretical Background Chapter 2: A Trilogy of Paradoxes and their Mode of Analysis Chapter 3: France-Algeria 1952-1964 Chapter 4: Britain-Ireland 1969-1994 Chapter 5: Russia-Chechnya 1994-2000 Chapter 6: Israel-The Palestinian Authority 2000-2004 Conclusion



Author Biography: Rahel Suissa is professor of political science at the University of Haifa in Israel.