Proxy Warfare in Strategic Competition: State Motivations and Future Trends

Abstract

This report examines the causes and likely future trends in proxy wars. More specifically, these reports focus on intrastate proxy wars: civil wars in which at least one local warring party receives support from an external state that could be useful for waging armed conflict, such as funding, arms, equipment, advising, training, intelligence, and/or troops.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 13, 2023
Accession Number
AD1195546

Entities

People

  • Ariane Tabataba
  • Brandon Corbin
  • Bryan A. Frederick
  • Christian Curriden
  • Edward Geist
  • Erik Mueller
  • Jeffrey Martini
  • Mark Toukan
  • Nathan Chandler
  • Sara Plana
  • Stephen Watts

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil War
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Economic Sanctions
  • Employment
  • Foreign Relations
  • Geography
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Military Science
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Political Systems
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Treaties

Fields of Study

  • History
  • Sociology

Readers

  • Strategic Security Studies