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Belmont Club
This is just a sample of the content found on this website. Please visit the website to read the entire page. "Belmont Club History and History in the Making Monday, May 02, 2005 Non-State Belligerents The bombing of a Baghdad ice cream parlor reminded George Will (hat tip: Donald Sensing ) of a similar scene in Franco Solina's the Battle of Algiers (scene 65). In the late 1950s the Algerian FLN drove the French out of Algeria through a successful campaign of terror. George Will believes that similar methods will not work in Iraq because the Iraqi insurgency "does not have a fighting faith" of the FLN. While the Algerian insurgency "was fueled by the most potent 'ism' of a century of isms -- nationalism ... one of the strange, almost surreal, aspects of the Iraqi insurgency is its lack of ideological content." Professor Max Manwaring of US Army War College (hat tip: Austin Bay ) argues that it is precisely for that reason -- the lack of ideological content -- that modern insurgencies are so dangerous. The FLN was an insurgency aspiring to become a state; whereas many modern insurgencies are "nonstate belligerents" without such ambitions and they comprise most of the security threats in the world today. While some international boundary disputes remain alive such as the Bolivian desire to regain access to the Pacific Ocean, and the chronic problems between India and Pakistan, the Koreas, and Ethiopia/Eritrea only a relatively few conventional formations of enemy soldiers are massing and preparing to invade the territory of a neighbor. What we see instead are numerous nonstate and transnational actors, including gangs, actively engaged in internal disruption and destabilization efforts. Manwaring argues that security threats in the 21st century are less likely to come from invading armies than Osama Bin Laden's terrorists, cul" .... read entire page
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