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Special Operations Beyond the State (opens the original)
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ABSTRACTCraig Whiteside and Ian Rice thoroughly demonstrate that, like states, non-state groups—militants, proxies, criminals, cults, and mercenaries—also employ special operations to achieve strategic effects far beyond the tactical scope of the operations themselves. The authors define non-state special operations as a category of irregular warfare and apply a sophisticated analytical framework to a wealth of historical and contemporary cases from the Trojan Horse to Vietnam to the post-9/11 w
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