Warfare in Peacetime
Proxies and State Powers
Christopher C. Harmon, PhD
DOI: 10.56686/9798985340488
ABOUT THE BOOK
Warfare in Peacetime offers an expansive and elaborated portrait of overseas proxy wars. The structure and substance will prepare observers, analysts, and participants seeking to understand challenges before American and other statesmen. The work helps frame the morass in Syria, with all its foreign links; the contest for influence in Libya, where innumerable hands vie for dominance; the fighting in Yemen, where Houthi Shia organizations backed by Iranian sponsors battle Sunni tribes; and life along the borders of Russian expansionism, where Ukrainians plea for outside assistance, including weapons from Washington. Such ongoing “warfare in peacetime” has a thousand precedents in a dozen ages, including our day, and some of the patterns are explored along with detailed case studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Warfare in Peacetime and Patterns of Proxy War
CASE STUDIES
Chapter One. The USSR and East Germany
Chapter Two. The USSR and Cuba
Chapter Three. The United States, the Reagan Doctrine, and Nicaraguan “Contras”
Chapter Four. The United States and UNITA of Angola
Chapter Five. India and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka
Chapter Six. China and the United Wa State Army in Myanmar
by Christopher D. Booth
Chapter Seven. Iran and Hezbollah
Looking Ahead: The Limits and Prospects of Proxy Warfare in Peacetime