The Military's Role in Counterterrorism: Examples and Implications for Liberal Democracies - Softcover

Hughes, Geraint

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1249915716 ISBN 13: 9781249915713

Publisher: Bibliogov, 2012

Synopsis

The author examines historical and contemporary examples of military involvement in counterterrorism, outlining the specific roles which the armed forces of liberal democracies have performed in combating terrorism, both in a domestic and international context. He describes the political, strategic, conceptual, diplomatic, and ethical problems that can arise when a state's armed forces become engaged in counterterrorism, and argues that military power can only be employed as part of a coordinated counterterrorist strategy aimed at the containment and frustration-rather than the physical elimination-of the terrorist group(s) concerned.

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About the Author

GERAINT HUGHES is a lecturer with the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London, and has taught at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, United Kingdom, since July 2005. He served with the Territorial Army between June 1999 and April 2005, and was deployed on an operational tour with British forces in Southeastern Iraq between May and November 2004. His research interests include contemporary land warfare, the use of the military in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, and proxy war. His second book, My Enemy’s Enemy: Proxy Warfare in International Politics, is due to be published by Sussex Academic Press in 2012.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bibliogov
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1249915716
• ISBN 13: 9781249915713
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232