Asymmetric Warfare Conflict of the Past, the Present, and the Future [antikvár]

Foreword Sober prognoses predict that the changes that have occurred in the character of armed conflict since the end of World War II are not likely to be reversed any time soon. Conflict between states and non-state actors shall remain the dominant form of warfare, but the existential threat of high-intensity international "conventional" war shall also be present. Therefore the state's security forces must be ready to answer two disparate violent challenges - often at the same time. The scientific research center of the Hungarian Defence Forces General Staff, in collaboration with the National University of Public Service, organized a conference to discuss some of the controversial issues that arise from this state of affairs. The "Public Service Development Establishing Good Governance" project (PADOP-2.1.2-CCHOP-15-2016-00001) provided partial funding. The conference attracted military and law-enforcement professionals, public administration specialists and academic researchers in various disciplines. The participation of young officers and academic researchers at the beginning of their career contributed to the "out of the box" thinking. In order to provide a framework for the conference, the organizers posed a series of questions at the outset: - What are the social, economic, political, security and other factors that assist the non-state belligerent to succeed, and hinder the state to address the asymmetric challenge? - How can the instruments of state power be deployed to reverse this trend, and what are the metrics of success or failure? - How can the law of armed conflict, international criminal law and national laws be applied in an asymmetric conflict? - What is the appropriate balance of political, economic, communication, administrative, law enforcement and military responses? - How can society's resilience and resistance to asymmetric challenges be enhanced? What are the effects of mass migration on the receiving nations' vulnerability to asymmetric challenges? - Asymmetric warfare in the service of the state. - What is the role of strategic communication in an asymmetric conflict? - What role do the international community, allies, NGOs and human rights organizations play in an asymmetric conflict? - Since a disparity of force is part of every conflict, is the term "asymmetric warfare" appropriate at all? Does creating such categories and sub-categories of conflict as terrorism, insurgency, guerrilla war, asymmetric warfare, irregular warfare, unconventional warfare, asymmetric war, hybrid war, conventional war, and nation building contribute to, or detract from understanding the problem and finding answers?