Proxy Warfare in Strategic Competition: Military Implications

Abstract

This report examines the military implications of proxy wars, which we define as wars (specifically 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
AD1195547

Entities

People

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

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anti-Tank Missiles
  • Combat Areas
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Employment
  • Geography
  • Hybrid Warfare
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Law
  • International Organizations
  • Military Applications
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • History
  • Sociology

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.