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Parent topics
- Grand strategy [r]: The application of all national means of affecting the actions of other nations and non-national actors; specifically includes but is not restricted to military means [e]
- International relations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Politicomilitary doctrine [r]: Spectrum of violent and nonviolent means of enforcing national and quasi-state policy, from the levels of grand strategy to small-unit tactics, from meetings between heads of states to interactions between low-level civil servants. [e]
- Coercion [r]: Inducing or preventing changes in political or individual behavior through the use of threats, intimidation, or some other form of pressure—most commonly, the application of the threat of force; successful coercion is a form of compellence [e]
Subtopics
Weaker military forces
- Terrorism [r]: An act, with targets including civilians or civilian infrastructure, intended to create an atmosphere of fear in order to obtain a political objective. [e]
- Guerrilla warfare [r]: A set of strategic, operational, and tactical actions, within a political context, taken against an enemy in territory dominated by that enemy, by irregular troops, often not uniformed [e]
- Insurgency [r]: A wide range of political and military actions intended to change a government, through means considered illegal by that government. [e]
- Coup d'etat [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Subversion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9-11 attack and other terrorist attacks. [e]
- Coercion [r]: Inducing or preventing changes in political or individual behavior through the use of threats, intimidation, or some other form of pressure—most commonly, the application of the threat of force; successful coercion is a form of compellence [e]
Unconventional tactics
- Swarming (military) [r]: A method of military attacking using multiple attack forces against an opponent, which act in an autonomous but synchronized manner, with real-time communications for their coordination [e]
- Battle of the Teutoburg Forest [r]: A decisive defeat, in 9 Ad, of Roman forces by a group of Germanic tribes commanded by Arminius [e]
Technological imbalance
- Gulf War [r]: The conflict started by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and ended with the liberation of Kuwait and major damage to Iraqi forces, by a US-led UN coalition in 1991. [e]
- Operation DESERT STORM [r]: That part of the Gulf War, beginning with the first air strikes at 02:00 local time, 17 January 1991, until the main ground assault into Kuwait, Operation DESERT SABRE [e]
- Operation DESERT SABRE [r]: That part of the Gulf War that began when conventional units of the Coalition crossed the Kuwaiti or Iraqi border, and ended with the cease-fire. [e]
- Nuclear weapon [r]: an extremely dangerous bomb based atomic fission (the "atom bomb" or A-bomb) or fusion (the "hydrogen" or H-bomb); a powerful conventional bomb is also needed to trigger the atomic reaction. [e]
Legal
- Lawfare [r]: The use of international law as a component of national grand strategy, or asymmetrical warfare by national or non-national actors [e]
- International humanitarian law [r]: That part of international law concerned with minimizing the human consequences of conventional and unconventional armed conflict [e]
- John Yoo [r]: Professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law since 1993; between 2001 and 2003; deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel, working on separation of powers, presidential authority, intelligence interrogation and extraordinary rendition; Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute [e]
- Federalist Society [r]: A U.S. organization promoting conservative and libertarian positions on legal issues. [e]
- Alan Dershowitz [r]: Felix Frankfurter Professor at Harvard Law School, specializing in civil liberties, criminal defense, and constitutional law [e]
- Jack Goldsmith [r]: US law professor specializing in international law; former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel in the George W. Bush Administration [e]
- War crime [r]: Acts that violate the laws of war as they applied in the time and place of commission, or that were deemed violations of law, possibly ex post facto, as determined by a competent tribunal [e]
- Israel-Palestine security [r]: Add brief definition or description