MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2010008314
003 DLC
005 20110416082434.0
008 100311s2010 oku b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780806141466 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a0806141468 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn553364854
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050 00 $aHV6439.L29$bM36 2010
082 00 $a322.4/2$222
100 1 $aManwaring, Max G.
245 10 $aGangs, pseudo-militaries, and other modern mercenaries :$bnew dynamics in uncomfortable wars /$cMax G. Manwaring ; foreword by Edwin G. Corr ; afterword by John T. Fishel.
260 $aNorman :$bUniversity of Oklahoma Press,$cc2010.
300 $axvii, 238 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aInternational and security affairs series ;$vv. 6
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-231) and index.
505 0 $aWhere Lenin leads : beginning lessons for the wars in our midst -- The Argentine piqueteros : "rent-a-mobs" or agents for radical political change? -- From the barrel of a gun and deep pockets : the gang role in coercing political change in Colombia -- Hugo Chavez's use of popular militias and other instruments of power : achieving a populist antidemocratic and antisystem agenda -- Defensive jihad in Western Europe : al Qaeda's elevation of nonstate irregular asymmetric warfare onto the global arena -- The neighbors down the road and across the river : the Mexican Zetas and other private armies that do nasty things and "go bump in the night" -- Some final thoughts : toward a new paradigm for irregular wars among the people.
650 0 $aGangs$zLatin America.
650 0 $aGangs$zEurope, Western.
650 0 $aAsymmetric warfare$zLatin America.
650 0 $aAsymmetric warfare$zEurope, Western.
650 0 $aMercenary troops$zLatin America.
650 0 $aMercenary troops$zEurope, Western.
650 0 $aCounterinsurgency.
650 0 $aPolitical stability.
650 0 $aSovereignty.
830 0 $aInternational and security affairs series ;$vv. 6.