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Sheldon, Rose Mary

doi:10.1080/09592318.2020.1764713

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“…“The term small war can include all campaigns other than those where both the opposing sides consist of regular troops. In other words, a small war is waged between state and non‐state adversaries” (Sheldon, 2020, p. 941).…”

Section: Coin: Definition and Main Approachesmentioning

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Localization of the counterinsurgency in Sinai: A case study on integrating local population into counterinsurgency combat operations in Sinai

Saad

2024

Digest Mid East Studies

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Integrating local militias in the counterinsurgency (COIN) operations in Sinai has achieved tangible successes. The presence of local fighters contributed to the penetration of the Islamic State—Sinai Province network. The integration of locals into the ongoing COIN process has imposed a degree of local participation in local governance and decision‐making. Nevertheless, this article argues that there are two approaches to local integration into the COIN operation; the first is institutional integration, in which the state integrates local fighters at an institutional level in the ranks of the security apparatus. The second is the collaborating militia approach. In this pattern, the state resorts to warlords and tribal chiefs to mobilize irregular militias, coordinating with the regular forces in the COIN process without formally merging them into security institutions’ ranks. The Egyptian model in the Sinai is one of the latter type. The collaborating militia integration approach into COIN operations contributes to wooing elites to create narrow patronage networks of cronies, preventing systematized community participation in the decision‐making process, which leads to keeping the factors of rebellion alive below the surface even if the rebels are defeated militarily.

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Section: Coin: Definition and Main Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Localization of the counterinsurgency in Sinai: A case study on integrating local population into counterinsurgency combat operations in Sinai

Saad

2024

Digest Mid East Studies

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Roots of Afridi Insurgency in British India’s North-West Frontier: 1849-1897

Agha

2022

Small Wars & Insurgencies

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Heart-minds and harquebuses: the Bozhou rebellion in China (1587-1600)

Noordam

2022

Small Wars & Insurgencies

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Many of the south-western non-Chinese minorities rebelled during the course of the dynasty's existence, including the Miao, who at the end of the sixteenth century launched an uprising under the leadership of Yang Yinglong (1551-1600). The resulting insurgency was eventually supressed under the leadership of civil officials. During the early dynasty forceful suppression by the military had been the norm. In contrast, civil officials, like Neo-Confucian thinker Wang Yangming (1472-1529), conceptualized mixed policies emphasizing moral exhortations and social engineering, in combination with military force using advanced technologies, as integrated solutions to ethnic insurgencies in the course of the sixteenth century. This paper will look at the extent to which these mixed policies were advocated and applied, including the use of advanced firearms, and their relative measures of success. Heart-Minds and Harquebuses: The Bozhou Rebellion in China (1587-1600)The two most well-known theatres of military action during the Chinese Ming dynasty are usually the long northern frontier facing the arid zone and roaming (semi-)nomads, and the south-eastern seaboard suffering frequent raids from Sino-Japanese pirate coalitions.A third significant theatre, however, was constituted by the south-western areas of the empire, containing the abodes of many ethnic minorities. Many of these non-Chinese minorities rebelled during the course of the dynasty's existence, including the Miao, who at the end of the sixteenth century launched an uprising under the leadership of Yang Yinglong (1551-1600).The uprising and the resulting insurgency were eventually supressed under the leadership of two civil officials, Guo Zizhang (1543-1618) and Li Hualong (1554-1611). Whereas during the early dynasty forceful suppression by the military had been the norm, by the late sixteenth century civil bureaucrats had assumed the overarching leadership of such operations. This phenomenon was exemplified by civil official and Neo-Confucian thinker Wang Yangming (1472-1529), who conceptualized mixed policies emphasizing moral exhortations and social engineering, in combination with military force, as integrated solutions to ethnic insurgencies in the course of the sixteenth century. This paper will look at the extent to which these mixed policies were advocated and applied, and their relative measures of success. Furthermore, the Bozhou Rebellion saw the use of Japanese harquebusiers and advanced firearms by the Ming empire, and a tentative assessment will be made of their impact on the course of insurgency warfare.

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Introduction

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

Localization of the counterinsurgency in Sinai: A case study on integrating local population into counterinsurgency combat operations in Sinai

Localization of the counterinsurgency in Sinai: A case study on integrating local population into counterinsurgency combat operations in Sinai

Roots of Afridi Insurgency in British India’s North-West Frontier: 1849-1897

Heart-minds and harquebuses: the Bozhou rebellion in China (1587-1600)

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