Venezuela As An Exporter Of 4th Generation Warfare Instability Enlarged Edition

Author : Max G. Manwaring
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book Venezuela as an Exporter of 4th Generation Warfare Instability written by Max G. Manwaring and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost no one seems to understand the Marxist-Leninist foundations of Hugo Chavez's political thought. It becomes evident, however, in the general vision of his "Bolivarian Revolution." The abbreviated concept is to destroy the old foreign-dominated (U.S. dominated) political and economic systems in the Americas, to take power, and to create a socialist, nationalistic, and "popular" (direct) democracy in Venezuela that would sooner or later extend throughout the Western Hemisphere. Despite the fact that the notion of the use of force (compulsion) is never completely separated from the Leninist concept of destroying any bourgeois opposition, Chavez's revolutionary vision will not be achieved through a conventional military war of maneuver and attrition, or a traditional insurgency. According to Lenin and Chavez, a "new society" will only be created by a gradual, systematic, compulsory application of agitation and propaganda (i.e., agit-prop). That long-term effort is aimed at exporting instability and generating public opinion in favor of a "revolution" and against the bourgeois system. Thus, the contemporary asymmetric revolutionary warfare challenge is rooted in the concept that the North American (U.S.) "Empire" and its bourgeois political friends in Latin America are not doing what is right for the people, and that the socialist Bolivarian philosophy and leadership will. This may not be a traditional national security problem for the United States and other targeted countries, and it may not be perceived to be as lethal as conventional conflict, but that does not diminish the cruel reality of compulsion.

Author : Max G. Manwaring
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book VENEZUELA AS AN EXPORTER OF 4TH GENERATION WARFARE INSTABILITY. written by Max G. Manwaring and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Max G. Manwaring
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304057070
Total Pages : 61 pages
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Download or read book Venezuela as an Exporter of 4th Generation Warfare Instability (Enlarged Edition) written by Max G. Manwaring and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of rising popular expectations regarding currently nonexistent rights in Latin America, it appears to be a revolutionary, insurgent, criminal, and populist dream. Thus, the Americas appear to be particularly susceptible to state (and their proxies) and nonstate actors that promise the security, stability, and prosperity national governments have generally failed to provide. Accordingly, Venezuela and President Hugo Chavez have become exporters of asymmetric, unconventional, and undeclared war. If left ignored and unchecked, these wars compel radical, unwanted, and epochal political-economic-social system change. Even though prudent governments must prepare for high-risk, low probability conventional interstate war, there is a high probability that the U.S. President and Congress and leaders of other powers around the world will continue to require civil-military participation in unconventional conflicts.

Author : Craig Bowser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781522099024
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Strategy for the United States to Engage and Contain Venezuela written by Craig Bowser and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. policy toward Latin America has failed to address the region's pressing social and economic problems. This gave rise to the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela. After taking office, former President Hugo Chavez moved to change the Venezuelan constitution, take control of the judicial and legislative branches of government, and politicize the military; in doing so, he eliminated democratic checks and balances and ensured that his Bolivarian revolution would live on after his death. War evolves along with society. Fourth-generation warfare (4GW) is ideologically driven. Max Manwaring says, "This kind of conflict is based on perceptions, beliefs, expectations, and dreams" Those groups and individuals who engage in 4GW lack power in the conventional sense, so they adopt strategies and tactics that do not try to match those of stronger conventional forces with superior military capabilities but instead take advantage of their own particular strengths. 4GW is sometimes difficult to recognize because it is likely to be diffuse and largely undefined in the traditional senses of war and peace. 4GW is a highly political and usually protracted conflict. It is nonlinear and likely to have no traditional battlefields. Chavez created a 4GW framework that allows Venezuela to export direct democracy, socialist propaganda, and asymmetric warfare capabilities easily to friendly governments, radical groups, and insurgents all over the hemisphere, the goal of which is to export instability and generate public opinion in favor of a revolution against the region's stable governments. Venezuela has both the capacity and the will to export instability throughout Latin America. Instability is the foundation for 4GW and the starting point for nation-state failure. This is the strategic threat posed by Venezuela and the challenge that the U.S. faces. Because 4GW is political and deliberately protracted in nature, the U.S. must prepare a strategy that is designed to engage and contain 4GW in order to prevent the spread of instability in Latin America. The strategy must encompass both political and social elements and be designed to last for decades, if necessary. This approach is the opposite of today's dominant U.S. strategy of high-tech, "shock-and-awe," short-term warfare. The status quo is untenable and will not produce the results that the U.S. wants and needs.Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui in their book Unrestricted Warfare say, "These things make it clear that warfare is no longer an activity confined only to the military sphere, and that the course of any war could be changed, or its outcome decided, by political factors, economic factors, diplomatic factors, cultural factors, technological factors, or other nonmilitary factors"

Author : Stephen Blank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Low-intensity Conflict in the Third World written by Stephen Blank and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common thread ties together the five case studies of this book: the persistence with which the bilateral relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union continues to dominate American foreign and regional policies. These essays analyze the LIC environment in Central Asia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : National Intelligence Council and Office
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781543054705
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Trends written by National Intelligence Council and Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Global Trends revolves around a core argument about how the changing nature of power is increasing stress both within countries and between countries, and bearing on vexing transnational issues. The main section lays out the key trends, explores their implications, and offers up three scenarios to help readers imagine how different choices and developments could play out in very different ways over the next several decades. Two annexes lay out more detail. The first lays out five-year forecasts for each region of the world. The second provides more context on the key global trends in train.

Author : M. Ayhan Kose
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464815453
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Waves of Debt written by M. Ayhan Kose and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global economy has experienced four waves of rapid debt accumulation over the past 50 years. The first three debt waves ended with financial crises in many emerging market and developing economies. During the current wave, which started in 2010, the increase in debt in these economies has already been larger, faster, and broader-based than in the previous three waves. Current low interest rates mitigate some of the risks associated with high debt. However, emerging market and developing economies are also confronted by weak growth prospects, mounting vulnerabilities, and elevated global risks. A menu of policy options is available to reduce the likelihood that the current debt wave will end in crisis and, if crises do take place, will alleviate their impact.

Author : Howard I. Blutstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
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Download or read book Area Handbook for Venezuela written by Howard I. Blutstein and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9241563702
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closing the Gap in a Generation written by WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2008 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chance of illness, and their risk of premature death. We watch in wonder as life expectancy and good health continue to increase in parts of the world and in alarm as they fail to improve in others.

Author : Andrew Scobell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781365073724
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The People's Liberation Army and Contingency Planning in China written by Andrew Scobell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How will China use its increasing military capabilities in the future? China faces a complicated security environment with a wide range of internal and external threats. Rapidly expanding international interests are creating demands for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to conduct new missions ranging from protecting Chinese shipping from Somali pirates to evacuating citizens from Libya. The most recent Chinese defense white paper states that the armed forces must "make serious preparations to cope with the most complex and difficult scenarios . . . so as to ensure proper responses . . . at any time and under any circumstances." Based on a conference co-sponsored by Taiwan's Council of Advanced Policy Studies, RAND, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and National Defense University, The People's Liberation Army and Contingency Planning in China brings together leading experts from the United States and Taiwan to examine how the PLA prepares for a range of domestic, border, and maritime...