Chapter 6

Question 1

civil war

Answer 1

war where main participants are in same state

Question 2

terrorism

Answer 2

threat of violence against non combatant targets by individuals or non-state groups for political ends

Question 3

asymmetrical warfar

Answer 3

armed conflict between actors with higly unequal military capabilities
ie. rebel groups vs states

Question 4

separatist

Answer 4

actor seeking to create independent state carved into existing state

Question 5

irredentist

Answer 5

actor seeking to detach region from one country and attach to another

Question 6

proxy war

Answer 6

conflict where opposing states “fight” by supporting opposite sides of war

Question 7

insurgency

Answer 7

military stategy where small, lightly armed units engage in hit & run attacks against military, gov’t & civilian targets

Question 8

extremists

Answer 8

actors whose interests are no widely shared by others
individuals/groups are politically weak relative to demands they make

Question 9

provocation

Answer 9

attacks intending to provoke target government into making disproportionate response that alienates the moderates in terrorists’ home society or other sympathetic audiences

Question 10

spoiling

Answer 10

attacks intended to sabotage prospective peace betwen target and moderate leadership from terrorists’ home society

Question 11

outbidding

Answer 11

stratgey designed to demonstrate superior capability & committment to cause relative to others