Out of the mountains : the coming age of the urban guerrilla

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Label

Out of the mountains : the coming age of the urban guerrilla

Title remainder

the coming age of the urban guerrilla

Statement of responsibility

David Kilcullen

Creator

• Kilcullen, David

Author

• Kilcullen, David

Subject

• Guerrilla warfare
• Urban warfare
• Non-governmental organizations
• Conflict management
• Low-intensity conflicts (Military science)

Language

eng

Summary

Kilcullen analyzes four megatrends--population growth, urbanization, coastal life, and connectedness-and concludes that future conflict is increasingly likely to occur in sprawling coastal cities, in underdeveloped regions of the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia, and in highly networked, connected settings. Kilcullen also offers a unified theory of "competitive control" that shows how non-state armed groups, drug cartels, street gangs, warlords--draw their strength from local populations, providing useful ideas for dealing with these groups and with diffuse social conflicts in general. But for many of the struggles we will face, he notes, there will be no military solution. We will need to involve local people deeply to address problems which neither outsiders nor locals alone can solve. These collaborations will interweave the insight only locals can bring, with outsider knowledge from fields such as urban planning, systems engineering, alternative energy technology, conflict resolution and mediation, and other disciplines

Cataloging source

lbi

Dewey number

355.02/1809173/2

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

general