Armed Groups : Studies in National Security, Counterterrorism, and Counterinsurgency.

Armed Groups -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Pirates, Vikings, and Teutonic Knights by Peter T. Underwood -- The Italian Red Brigades (1969-1984): Political Revolution and Threats to the State - by Paul J. Smith -- Armed Conflict in Cambodia and the UN Response - by Carole Garrison -- Armed Groups and Diplomacy: East Timor's FRETILIN Guerrillas - by Gene Christy -- Adapting to a Changing Environment: The Irish Republican Army as an Armed Group - by Timothy D. Hoyt -- Pseudo Operations: A Double-Edged Sword of Counterinsurgency - by Theodore L. Gatchel -- The Threat to the Maritime Domain: How Real Is the Terrorist Threat? - by Rohan Gunaratna -- Armed Groups and the Law - by Craig H. Allen -- Globalization and the Transformation of Armed Groups - by Querine H. Hanlon -- Is It Possible to Deter Armed Groups? - by Yosef Kuperwasser -- Sanctuary: The Geopolitics of Terrorism and Insurgency - by Mackubin Thomas Owens -- Small Wars Are Local: Debunking Current Assumptions about Countering Small Armed Groups - by Peter Curry -- Piracy and the Exploitation of Sanctuary - by Martin N. Murphy -- Domestic Terrorism: Forgotten, But Not Gone - by Edward J. Valla and Gregory Comcowich -- The Threat of Armed Street Gangs in America - by Edward J. Maggio -- Prosecuting Homegrown Extremists: Case Study of the Virginia "Paintball Jihad" Cell - by Steven Emerson -- Armed with the Power of Religion: Not Just a War of Ideas - by Pauletta Otis -- Arming for Armageddon: Myths and Motivations of Violence in American Christian Apocalypticism - by Timothy J. Demy -- Glory in Defeat and Other Islamist Ideologies - by Mehrdad Mozayyan -- The Erosion of Constraints in Armed-Group Warfare: Bloody Tactics and Vulnerable Targets - by Andrea J. Dew.

Knowledge Transfer and Shared Learning among Armed Groups - by James J. F. Forest -- The "Memory of War": Tribes and the Legitimate Use of Force in Iraq - by Montgomery McFate -- Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? Tyrant or Guardian? - by Derek S. Reveron and Jeffrey Stevenson Murer -- Disrupting and Influencing Leaders of Armed Groups - by Elena Mastors and Jeffrey H. Norwitz -- Armed Groups through the Lens of Anthropology - by David W. Kriebel -- Children on the Battlefield: The Breakdown of Moral Norms - by P. W. Singer -- The "New Silk Road" of Terrorism and Organized Crime: The Key to Countering the Terror-Crime Nexus - by Russell D. Howard and Colleen M. Traughber -- Shari'a Financing and the Coming Ummah - by Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen -- Terrorism as an International Security Problem - by Martha Crenshaw -- Takin' It to the Streets: Hydra Networks, Chaos Strategies, and the "New" Asymmetry - by P. H. Liotta -- Virtual Sanctuary Enables Global Insurgency - by Richard Shultz -- Armed Groups: Changing the Rules - by T. X. Hammes -- UN Guidelines on Humanitarian Negotiations with Armed Groups.

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