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Fighting for Ireland? is the first in-depth account of the evolution of Irish Republican strategy. It is highly topical in the light of the faltering peace process and the growing speculation over the IRA's next move: further violence or a new non-violent strategy? This new, updated paperback edition is essential reading for those who wish to disentangle the complex issues and motives behind IRA violence. M.L.R. Smith challenges many assumptions about the IRA, pinpointing the organisation's successes as well as its missed opportunities. He demonstrates the tension the movement has...

855.5 Gewapende groeperingen --- 855.1 Strategie --- 884.4 West-Europa --- Insurgency --- Violence --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Insurgent attacks --- Rebellions --- Civil war --- Political crimes and offenses --- Revolutions --- Government, Resistance to --- Internal security --- History --- Irish Republican Army --- Armata repubblicana irlandese --- Armée républicaine irlandaise --- I.R.A. --- IRA --- Official IRA --- Oglaig na h-Éireann --- Irish Volunteers --- Provisional IRA --- History. --- Ireland --- Northern Ireland --- Severna Irlandii︠a︡ --- Irlande du Nord --- G.N.I. --- GNI --- Tuaisceart Éireann --- Norlin Airlann --- Pohjois-Irlanti --- Nordirland --- 北アイルランド --- Kita Airurando --- Kitairurando --- History, Military. --- History [Military ] --- 20th century --- 1969 --- -Insurgency --- Irish Republican Army - History. --- Ireland - History, Military - 20th century. --- Northern Ireland - History, Military - 1969 --- -Ireland --- -Insurgency. --- Insurgency. --- Internal politics --- Polemology --- -Internal politics

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The counterinsurgency (COIN) paradigm dominates military and political conduct in contemporary Western strategic thought. It assumes future wars will unfold as "low intensity" conflicts within rather than between states, requiring specialized military training and techniques. COIN is understood as a logical, effective, and democratically palatable method for confronting insurgency-a discrete set of practices that, through the actions of knowledgeable soldiers and under the guidance of an expert elite, creates lasting results.Through an extensive investigation into COIN's theories, methods, and outcomes, this book undermines enduring claims about COIN's success while revealing its hidden meanings and effects. Interrogating the relationship between counterinsurgency and war, the authors question the supposed uniqueness of COIN's attributes and try to resolve the puzzle of its intellectual identity. Is COIN a strategy, a doctrine, a theory, a military practice, or something else? Their analysis ultimately exposes a critical paradox within COIN: while it ignores the vital political dimensions of war, it is nevertheless the product of a misplaced ideological faith in modernization.

Polemology --- Counterinsurgency --- Terrorism --- Acts of terrorism --- Attacks, Terrorist --- Global terrorism --- International terrorism --- Political terrorism --- Terror attacks --- Terrorist acts --- Terrorist attacks --- World terrorism --- Direct action --- Insurgency --- Political crimes and offenses --- Subversive activities --- Political violence --- Terror --- Counterguerrilla warfare --- Guerrilla warfare --- History