Conflict in the twenty-first century -- What are armed groups? -- Amed-group archetypes -- Internal characteristics -- External characteristics -- Combating armed groups.
Summary:
"Armed Groups provides a framework for categorizing and analyzing a key threat to today's security arena-terrorists, mercenaries, insurgents, militias, and transnational criminal organizations. Understanding their goals, strategies, internal composition, and the environment that fosters them is crucial to understand today's changing nature of war"-- Provided by publisher.
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