Proxy Warfare, Strategic Thinking, History and Operational Arts

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Explores the strategic theory, history and operational art of borrowing armies to fight in another country's civil war, and the use of coercive diplomacy and irregular warfare to shape military and diplomatic outcomes. Draws on Cold War history and contemporary case studies of U.S. and Russian proxy strategy in Korea, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Syria. Also grapples with the puzzles of principal-agent dynamics, coercive diplomacy, secrecy, deception and political warfare. Examines how changes in technology have shaped proxy wars in the past and how they are likely to shape such conflicts in the near future.