Phil W. Reynolds

Ouroboros (eBook, ePUB)

Understanding the War Machine of Liberalism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Looking at partisan groups such as the FLN, the Vietcong, and the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan, Ouroboros: Understanding the War Machine of Liberalism assesses how they convert their knowledge of self into tactical and strategic advantages that nullify the Clausewitzian advantages in the distribution of military power. Reynolds argues that liberalism has a global transformative mission that requires an ideologically democratic core and an illiberal periphery. By assessing the ouroboros, which sees action as definitive and final, the book explains how it powers the new strategy of preemption that intervenes in the periphery, ostensibly to set up democratic, security-centered adjuncts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498590921
• Artikelnr.: 57176443

Autorenporträt

Phil W. Reynolds is visiting scholar at the Center for Future Studies, Hawaii.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Liberalism, the State, and War
2. Explaining Clausewitzian Power
3. The Security Dispositif as an Ordering Framework
4. The Domestic and the Periphery
5. The Origins of the War Machine
6. How the War Machine Become Permanent
7. Key Components of Clausewitzian War
8. The Problem with Clauswitzian War and the Trinity
9. How the Singularity Is Revealed
10. The Uninhibited Partisan, Terror and Force
11. Algeria and the Ordering of Society
12. Vietnam and the Immediate Threat
13. Afghanistan and Killing a War Machine
14. 9/11 and Comparative Advantage
15. Crux
16. Problems with Preemption
17. Preemption as Method
18. Generating Certainty
PART SIX -CONCLUSIONS
19. Liberalism and the War Machine
20. The Singularity
21. Preemption as Imperative
22. The Ouroboros