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Chinese war in Southeast Asia’s Frontier: contesting Kokang’s Chinese identity on Myanmar-China Border conflict 中国在东南亚边境的战争:在中缅边境冲突中质疑果敢的中国身份
IF 0.8 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-08-22 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2247518
Danny Widiatmo, Abellia Anggi Wardani
ABSTRACT Kokang is an ethnic minority group that settled along the Myanmar-China borderland with dual identity as it has long historical ties of nationalism and patronage with various political factions in China while located outside China’s border. This article explores how Kokang’s Ethnic Revolutionary Organization (ERO), the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, and their leaders construct Kokang’s identity to their benefit. Based on desk research method, the article found that Kokang’s dual identity allows them to self-categorize themselves as Chinese or separate-independent ethnic minorities in Myanmar while setting ethnic boundaries with various political entities to protect their interest.
果敢是一个定居在中缅边境的少数民族,具有双重身份,因为它在中国边境之外与中国各政治派别有着长期的民族主义和庇护关系。本文探讨了果敢的民族革命组织(ERO)、缅甸民族民主同盟军及其领导人如何为自己的利益构建果敢的身份。基于案头研究的方法,文章发现果敢的双重身份使他们能够自我归类为中国人或在缅甸独立的少数民族,同时与各种政治实体设定种族界限以保护他们的利益。
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Parmanu: the story of Pokhran (2018)- the saffronization of India’s quest for a nuclear weapon Parmanu: Pokhran的故事(2018)-印度寻求核武器的藏红花化
IF 0.8 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2242624
C. C. Fair
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The challenges of military adaptation to the cyber domain: a case study of the Netherlands 军事适应网络领域的挑战:以荷兰为例
IF 0.8 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-07-13 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2233159
M. Smeets
ABSTRACT Whilst NATO speaks increasingly publicly about the military use of cyber operations, adaptation to the cyber domain has reportedly been challenging for most militaries. Little research has sought to understand the nature of these challenges. This study seeks to address this gap through a case study of the Netherlands. By utilizing a range of primary and secondary sources, this article reveals that the Dutch Defense Cyber Command has faced significant constraints in its adaptation to the cyber domain, primarily due to issues related to organizational structure, operational mandate, and the availability of skills and resources. A cyber command that lacks regular opportunities for day-to-day operations and where personnel may not have continuous learning opportunities to acquire and refine their skills will encounter difficulties in recruiting, training, and retaining a proficient workforce. These findings highlight the tendency of observers to mistakenly equate the mere establishment of a cyber command with the existence of a robust military cyber capability – namely, the ability to effectively carry out and sustain a range of cyber operations for tactical or strategic purposes.
摘要尽管北约越来越多地公开谈论网络行动的军事用途,但据报道,适应网络领域对大多数军队来说都是一项挑战。很少有研究试图了解这些挑战的性质。本研究试图通过对荷兰的案例研究来解决这一差距。通过利用一系列主要和次要来源,本文揭示了荷兰国防网络司令部在适应网络领域方面面临着重大限制,主要是由于组织结构、作战任务以及技能和资源的可用性等问题。一个缺乏日常作战机会的网络司令部,以及人员可能没有持续学习的机会来获得和完善他们的技能,将在招募、培训和留住熟练劳动力方面遇到困难。这些发现突显了观察者错误地将仅仅建立网络司令部等同于强大的军事网络能力的存在的倾向,即为战术或战略目的有效实施和维持一系列网络行动的能力。
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Counterinsurgency as order-making: refining the concepts of insurgency and counterinsurgency in light of the Somali civil war 反叛乱作为秩序的制定:从索马里内战的角度提炼叛乱和反叛乱的概念
IF 0.8 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-07-11 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2231203
M. Skjelderup, Mukhtar Ainashe
ABSTRACT In this paper, we argue that the current insurgency and counterinsurgency discourse is dominated by concepts that are too narrow and too isolated from the wider civil war literature within which insurgency and counterinsurgency occur. Rather than accounting for the complex political processes and wide range of forces and actors that shape conflict dynamics, the dominant insurgency and counterinsurgency debate tends to reduce highly messy contexts to a competition between the often false dichotomy of insurgents and counterinsurgents, usually understood as the state versus one or more non-state violent actors. In order to understand civil war contexts like South-Central Somalia, we argue that orthodox reductionist concepts and assumptions underpinning the dominant insurgency and counterinsurgency discourse provide limited value. Building on recent critical literature, the paper proposes a refined conceptualization. Instead of understanding insurgency and counterinsurgency as peculiar forms of war, strategies, or sets of guerilla tactics, we follow Jaqueline Hazelton’s line of thought, suggesting that insurgency and counterinsurgency are mere elements of a broader process of violent order-making. Thus, insurgency and counterinsurgency are, in our view, comprehensive processes of organized challenge to and consolidation of established political order within the context of civil war.
摘要在本文中,我们认为当前的叛乱和反叛乱话语被过于狭隘的概念所主导,这些概念与发生叛乱和反叛扰的更广泛的内战文献过于孤立。占主导地位的叛乱和反叛乱辩论并没有考虑到复杂的政治进程以及影响冲突动态的广泛力量和行为者,而是倾向于将高度混乱的背景简化为叛乱分子和反叛乱者之间的竞争,通常被理解为国家与一个或多个非国家暴力行为者之间的竞争。为了理解索马里中南部等内战背景,我们认为,支撑主导叛乱和反叛乱话语的正统简化主义概念和假设提供了有限的价值。在最近的批评文献的基础上,本文提出了一个精细的概念化。我们没有将叛乱和反叛乱理解为战争、战略或游击战术的特殊形式,而是遵循Jaqueline Hazelton的思路,认为叛乱和反叛叛乱只是更广泛的暴力秩序制定过程的要素。因此,在我们看来,叛乱和反叛乱是在内战背景下有组织地挑战和巩固既定政治秩序的综合过程。
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Guerrillas in our midst: Reflections on the British experience of counter-insurgency in popular fiction 我们中间的游击队:通俗小说对英国平叛经验的反思
IF 0.8 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2022.2067441
G. Hughes
ABSTRACT Over the past two decades the historical record of Britain’s wars against a series of insurgencies has experienced a fundamental academic re-assessment, challenging established beliefs about how the British state and its institutions – in particular the British Army – have waged counterinsurgency, and questioning traditional presumptions that Britain fought its insurgent enemies according to a doctrine guided by ‘hearts and minds’ and ‘minimum force’. This article shows that hints about the murky reality behind the ‘British way in counterinsurgency’ can be seen in novels published during the post-war era, some of which used recent conflicts as their subject matter, others of which referred tangentially to previous wars. Not only were these best-selling books with an international audience, but these authors had experience with Britain’s armed forces and intelligence services, and were either directly involved in counterinsurgency conflicts, or their works indicated insight and knowledge about them. Their books provided fictional illustrations of many of the themes – coercive tactics against civilians, special operations against insurgents, inter-departmental disputes, the lack of cultural understanding, the maltreatment of detainees and the excessive use of force against suspected insurgents and civilians – that have been identified and examined by military historians and other academic specialists covering Britain and counterinsurgency.
在过去的二十年里,英国对一系列叛乱的战争历史记录经历了一次根本性的学术重新评估,挑战了关于英国国家及其机构(特别是英国陆军)如何发动反叛乱的既定信念,并质疑英国根据“心灵和思想”和“最小武力”指导的学说与叛乱敌人作战的传统假设。这篇文章表明,在战后时期出版的小说中,可以看到关于“英国平叛方式”背后的阴暗现实的暗示,其中一些以最近的冲突为主题,另一些则间接提到以前的战争。这些畅销书不仅拥有国际读者,而且这些作者在英国武装部队和情报部门工作过,或者直接参与过平叛冲突,或者他们的作品表明了他们对这些冲突的洞察力和知识。他们的书提供了许多主题的虚构插图——针对平民的强制战术,针对叛乱分子的特别行动,部门间的争端,缺乏文化理解,虐待被拘留者以及过度使用武力对付可疑的叛乱分子和平民——这些都被军事历史学家和其他研究英国和反叛乱的学术专家鉴定和研究过。
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Insurgencies & organized crime: the essential elements of information 叛乱与有组织犯罪:信息的基本要素
IF 0.8 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2227408
L. Cline
ABSTRACT Operational analysis of irregular warfare typically focuses on politically-based actions (typically violent) against governments. Intelligence services very often base their planning, collection efforts, and analysis on opposing insurgent or terrorist groups, proxy forces, and governments that might be supporting them. A key threat to stability in these complex security environments – organized criminal activities – has rarely received similar attention. Using commonalities revealed by patterns of organized crime in multiple regions as a basis for essential elements of information can provide a template for more comprehensive intelligence support and more sophisticated operational strategies.
非常规战争的作战分析通常侧重于针对政府的基于政治的行动(通常是暴力)。情报部门的计划、收集工作和分析往往是基于反对叛乱或恐怖组织、代理势力和可能支持他们的政府。在这些复杂的安全环境中,对稳定的一个主要威胁- -有组织的犯罪活动- -很少受到类似的注意。利用多个区域有组织犯罪模式所揭示的共性作为信息基本要素的基础,可以为更全面的情报支助和更复杂的行动战略提供模板。
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Exploring factors and implications of violence against civilians: a case study of the Soviet-Afghan war 探讨针对平民的暴力的因素和影响:以苏联-阿富汗战争为例
IF 0.8 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2231198
Justin Magula
ABSTRACT The Soviet-Afghan War serves as a significant case study to understand why states resort to violent acts against civilians during war. This study takes a multidimensional approach, examining strategic, operational, and individual factors and applying theories of violence and mass killing. By analyzing the conditions that led the Soviets to target civilians, this investigation identifies a nexus of interconnected factors. At the strategic level, Soviet leaders pursued a swift victory to establish a Communist client regime while minimizing casualties and controlling information flow. Operationally, the ill-preparedness of the Red Army for counterinsurgency warfare, coupled with an entrenched organizational culture, led to the adoption of counterproductive enemy-centric tactics against Afghan noncombatants. Additionally, inadequate training, prolonged deployments, and a lack of disciplinary measures at the individual level contributed to the perpetration of violent acts. Understanding the underlying causes of violence against civilians, particularly in the context of Russian forces, holds practical importance. This knowledge can assist policymakers in devising strategies that mitigate wartime violence and enhance the protection of citizens. Drawing parallels to contemporary conflicts involving Russia, the study concludes by recommending future research directions and emphasizing the relevance of comprehending the targeting of noncombatants in ongoing conflicts, notably the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
摘要:苏阿战争是一个重要的案例研究,可以理解国家为什么在战争中对平民采取暴力行为。这项研究采用了多层面的方法,考察了战略、行动和个人因素,并应用了暴力和大规模屠杀的理论。通过分析导致苏联以平民为目标的条件,这项调查确定了一系列相互关联的因素。在战略层面,苏联领导人迅速取得胜利,建立了一个共产主义客户政权,同时最大限度地减少伤亡并控制信息流。在作战上,红军对反叛乱战争的准备不足,加上根深蒂固的组织文化,导致对阿富汗非战斗人员采取了适得其反的以敌人为中心的战术。此外,培训不足、部署时间过长以及缺乏个人层面的纪律措施,也助长了暴力行为的发生。了解针对平民的暴力行为的根本原因,特别是在俄罗斯军队的背景下,具有实际意义。这些知识可以帮助决策者制定减少战时暴力和加强对公民保护的战略。该研究将当代涉及俄罗斯的冲突进行了类比,最后建议了未来的研究方向,并强调了理解当前冲突中非战斗人员的目标的相关性,尤其是俄乌冲突。
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Introduction 介绍
IF 0.8 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2229183
Paul B. Rich
Cinema together with novels and short stories can provide valuable insights into war and military conflict. These include conflicts fought by insurgent movements and the various counter-insurgencies waged by states to resist, contain, and, on occasions, defeat them. Film and literature can be valuable aids in the teaching of unconventional or irregular wars and the examination of their wider public mythologies. Cinema is necessarily a great simplifier, often taking myths from stories, legends, and plays and transforming them into spectacles for popular audiences. Some of the major themes tackled by this war cinema derive from various military conflicts both ancient and modern: courage, heroism, and honour along with cowardice and incompetence; romance and the frequent breakdown of domestic relationships of some of those involved in military conflicts; the strategic rationale and competence of senior commanders and political leaders; the traumatic impact of warfare on those fighting in it and the frequently shabby treatment of veterans returning home. The theme explored in this short special issue is the myth of the warrior and soldier hero and its replacement in several films since the 1960s of antiwar images of the soldier as victim and aggressor. The shift is interesting for the way it has often occurred in films that are not situated in interstate wars and grand set piece battles, such as those of World Wars One and Two, but in messier and protracted smaller-scale conflicts such as the Anglo Boer War of 1899–1902, post-war British colonial ‘emergencies’, the Vietnam War and ‘the troubles’ in Northern Ireland. The four papers published here thus mark a useful addition to the scholarly study of cinema and irregular or unconventional war in contrast to the wider and better-known work on conventional war. Guerrilla Warfare has only recently begun to be examined by film studies analysts and cinema critics after a long period when it was largely subsumed within the wider rubric of war cinema. While there may be some rationale for this approach in terms of a tidiness of subject matter, those studying guerrilla
电影与小说和短篇小说一起可以为战争和军事冲突提供宝贵的见解。其中包括叛乱运动的冲突,以及各国为抵抗、遏制并有时击败他们而发动的各种反叛乱。电影和文学可以对非常规或非常规战争的教学以及对其更广泛的公共神话的研究提供宝贵的帮助。电影必然是一个伟大的简化者,经常从故事、传说和戏剧中提取神话,并将其转化为受欢迎观众的奇观。这部战争电影处理的一些主要主题源于古代和现代的各种军事冲突:勇气、英雄主义、荣誉以及懦弱和无能;一些卷入军事冲突的人的浪漫和家庭关系频繁破裂;高级指挥官和政治领导人的战略理由和能力;战争对参战人员的创伤影响,以及退伍军人回国后经常受到的恶劣待遇。这期短篇特刊探讨的主题是战士和战士英雄的神话,以及自20世纪60年代以来几部电影中战士作为受害者和侵略者的反战形象的替代。这种转变很有趣,因为它经常发生在电影中,这些电影不是发生在州际战争和宏大的场景战中,比如第一次和第二次世界大战,而是发生在更混乱和旷日持久的小规模冲突中,比如1899-1902年的英波战争、战后英国殖民地的“紧急情况”、越南战争和北爱尔兰的“麻烦”。因此,在这里发表的四篇论文标志着对电影和非常规或非常规战争的学术研究的有益补充,而不是更广泛、更知名的常规战争研究。《游击战》在很大程度上被纳入战争电影的更广泛范畴后,直到最近才开始受到电影研究分析师和影评人的审查。虽然从主题的整洁性来看,这种方法可能有一些道理,但那些研究游击队的人
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The insurgent’s dilemma: A struggle to prevail 反叛者的困境:一场取胜的斗争
IF 0.8 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2232674
Nelson Kasfir
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Narco drones: tracing the evolution of cartel aerial tactics in Mexico’s low-intensity conflicts Narco无人机:追踪墨西哥低强度冲突中卡特尔空中战术的演变
IF 0.8 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-06-18 DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2023.2226382
Ghaleb Krame, Vlado Vivoda, A. Davies
ABSTRACT This study examines the evolution of drone tactics employed by drug cartels in Mexico from 2017 to 2022. The research traces the increasing sophistication of drone technology, payload capacities, and adaptability of cartels in employing airborne drones in low-intensity conflicts It also highlights the increasing reliance on drones for various purposes. The analysis reveals insights into how criminal organizations adapt to the changing technological landscape, incorporating drones into their operations and creating new challenges for law enforcement. The analysis outlines strategies and identifies specialized measures to counteract this asymmetric warfare.
本研究考察了2017年至2022年墨西哥贩毒集团使用的无人机战术的演变。该研究追踪了无人机技术的日益成熟、有效载荷能力和卡特尔在低强度冲突中使用机载无人机的适应性,并强调了越来越多地依赖无人机用于各种目的。该分析揭示了犯罪组织如何适应不断变化的技术环境,将无人机纳入其行动,并为执法部门带来新的挑战。分析概述了战略,并确定了对抗这种不对称战争的专门措施。
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