INTA 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Guerrilla Warfare, Bomb Disposal, Gun Laying
7 Jan 2017
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Though advancing military technology has caused the conduct of war to change over and over, it does not seem to have affected the cause of armed conflict. Over the ages the origin of warfare have been sought in factors such as god, economic competition, power, envy of their neighbors, and so on. Conventional war: has been in many ways as serious and as bloody as any in history. There is a reversion to more primitive forms of warfare (ex: iraq-iran war and use of mustard gas) Sub conventional or insurgency war/terrorism/ guerrilla: they are waged by groups who, whatever their precise identity, are not authorized to resort to armed violence by the legal system in force. Because of lack of political legitimacy, guerrillas and terrorists are usually weak in numbers, organization, and in the technology at their disposal. They engage in a struggle against forces that are militarily much stringer than themselves.
