Strong powers in small wars: The unnoticed foundations of success |
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| Authors: | Gil Merom |
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| Institution: | Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science , Tel Aviv University , |
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| Abstract: | This essay discusses how strong military powers successfully conduct counter‐insurgency campaigns. In particular, it notes the pivotal role savagery plays in such encounters, and the social and institutional conditions that facilitate the resort to extreme levels of brutality. Finally, the essay demonstrates how states (including infant democracies) employ various compartmentalisation techniques in order to win insurgency wars, once the key conditions that facilitate the resort to brutality start to disappear. |
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