Subversion as a Facet of Terrorism and Insurgency The Case for a Twenty-First Century Approach; Strategic Insights: v.8, issue 3 (August 2009)
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Clutterbuck, Lindsay
Rosenau, William
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2009-08
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August 2009
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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For most analysts (to the extent they consider the subject at all), subversion as a threat essentially evaporated with the close of the Cold War. A notable exception is David Kilcullen, a leading counterinsurgency strategist, who recently outlined what he terms the 'five classes of threat that currently confront Europe,' namely, terrorist cells, subversive networks, extremist political movements, insurgent sympathiser networks, and crime overlapping with terrorism. In order to understand the dynamics of this complex and shifting threat, he offers a new definition of subversion, as 'the conscious, clandestine manipulation of grievances, short of armed conflict, in order to weaken states, communities and organisations.'
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This article appeared in Strategic Insights (August 2009), v.8 no.3
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