Definitions of international conflicts Flashcards
Asymmetric conflicts
- Guerrillas
- Terrorist movements.
- Civil disobedience movements, etc.
Hybrid warfare.
It is a kind of asymmetric conflict, focused on the asymmetry of capabilities between the parties, but in a way where the non-State actor or irregular party is approaching in military capabilities and organizational model to the State actor.
Electronic warfare
Electronic warfare is the set of tools related to the electromagnetic spectrum dedicated to interception, disruption of signals
cyberwarfare
Cyberwarfare is the part of warfare that takes place in the cyberspace, from propaganda to cyber-attacks
as denials of services, in a model which is quickly spreading to non-State actors capabilities.
KEY: propaganda to cyber-attacks
Civil obedience or non-violent resistance
- Movements that oppose state actors.
- Fighting an established power, a defacto state or a real state.
- Cultural identification (i.e. Against Western culture, terror)
Network wars.
It is based in the organisational structure of the conflict and its actors, since the technological revolution has modified the relational dynamics between parties: diffuse interconnected groups operating without a clear command thanks to the new communications technology.
Asymmetric conflict
It is that conflict where there is an organisational asymmetry between one of the parties – normally a State- and the other one –normally a non-State actor-.
Unconventional strategies and tactics adopted by a force when the military capabilities are significantly different.
Key: they do not make the same attack on each other
conventional war
used to reduce the opponents military capabilities directly through attacks and manoeuvres.
- conducted without the use of nuclear, biolologcal or chemical weapons
Civil obedience or non-violent resistance EXAMPLE
Martin Luther King movement
