Counterinsurgency Warfare and Brutalisation by Roberto Colombo

Counterinsurgency Warfare and Brutalisation by Roberto Colombo

This book offers the first analysis of the brutalisation paradigm in counter-insurgency warfare. Minimising the use of force and winning over the population’s opinion is said to be the cornerstone of success in modern counterinsurgency (COIN). Yet, this tells only one side of the story. Drawing upon primary data collected during interviews with eyewitnesses of the Second Russian-Chechen War, as well as from secondary sources, this book is the first to offer a detailed analysis of the long-neglected logic underpinning brutalisation-centred COIN campaigns. It offers a comprehensive systematisation of the brutalisation paradigm and challenges the widespread assumption of brutalisation as an underperforming paradigm of COIN warfare. It shows that, although appalling, brutalisation-centred measures can deliver success. The book also outlines a stigmatised yet widely deployed set of COIN measures and provides critical insights into how Western military blueprints can be improved without compromising important moral and ethical requirements. This book will be of much interest to students of counterinsurgency, military and strategic studies, Russian politics, and International Relations.

Roberto Colombo is an independent researcher and security analyst specialising in counterinsurgency and counterterrorism.

Emil Aslan Souleimanov is a Professor at the Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Czech Republic.

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ISBN 13	9781032035796
ISBN 10	103203579X
Title	Counterinsurgency Warfare and Brutalisation
Author	Roberto Colombo
Series	Cass Military Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2021-07-22
Number of pages	110
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