Sub state Unconventional Warfare: Expanding United States Military Political Options

Abstract

Aggressive occupying powers that adopt characteristics and responsibilities of states currently abound throughout the world. Sub-state unconventional warfare is a viable policy option if strategic planners determine a potential to work with and through an indigenous underground, auxiliary, and guerrillas to coerce, disrupt, or overthrow occupying powers or non-state actors. Sub-state unconventional warfare must be scaled and tailored specifically to the operational environment, and when applied judiciously, can be utilized to oppose occupying powers like the Russian military in Transnistria, Crimea, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, or Nagorno Karabakh, to combat non-state actors like ISIL in Iraq, Syria, and Libya by harnessing disenfranchised populations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 26, 2016
Accession Number
AD1022269

Entities

People

  • Sean D. Tinklenberg

Organizations

  • School of Advanced Military Studies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil War
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Green Berets
  • International Law
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Revolutions
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Unconventional Warfare
  • Warfare

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • International Relations and Conflict Resolution
  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.