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The Dynamics of the Armed Struggle is an authoritative and provocative analysisof the nature of one of the times most prevalent forms of political violence.The classic examples are known to the IRA the Euroterrorists the pilgrims ofthe Holy Jihad and the Algerian fundamentalists the Palestinian fedayeen andall those including Mao and Che Begin Kenyatta and Giap who have madehistory by recourse to the power of the gun.Dr Bowyer Bell has attended wars not seminars in pursuit of data insight andexplanation and has been shot at kidnapped expelled and questioned fromCentral America to Northern Ireland a scholar amid terror. The text arisesfrom his access to the underground from time spent in the revolutionaryecosystem and among those who kill to make a dream real. The result is a uniqueanalysis that transcends traditional studies of insurgency or terrorismdepicting a strange world where the will is trusted not tangible assets wherea galaxy of the faithful seeks to alter history. Sometimes the will prevailsover the assets of the state the weak win because their will endures until thecentre fails.The structure that the faithful create everywhere different yet everywhere thesame has not been examined before from the inside out. The Dynamics of theArmed Struggle is both a special and a general study of the hidden world of thegunmannot as a mirror image of everyday reality amenable to academic toolsbut as perceived by a scholar with a visa into violence. The reader will nolonger find the armed struggles of our time inexplicable merely horrible yetemerging as cohesive means to act on events. This book offers a compellinginsight into anelusive phenomenon a process that at times allows the few tochange the course of history.Dr J Bowyer Bell is President of the International Analysis Center New York aconsulting firm on problems of international security and teaches lowintensity conflict and terror «
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