Steven Metz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 177624 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Steven Metz |
| NOMBRES | Steven |
| APELLIDO | Metz |
| FIRMA | METZ S |
| AFILIACIONES | United States Army War College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Challenges of Next-Gen Insurgency
States and their security forces often assume future insurgency will be versions of Mao Zedong’s “people’s war,” and counterinsurgency remains backward looking without a theoretical foundation to situate it within broader global security environment and armed-conflict trends. Next-gen insurgency will be networked, swarming, global, and focused on narrative-centric conflict and integrated cost imposition, and social media and the virtual world wil…
The Future of Strategic Leadership
Pursuing Moral Warfare
Most advanced militaries are optimized for conventional warfighting against the armed forces of other nations, but recently, some have been used for counterinsurgency. This is a challenge: even under the best of circumstances, counterinsurgency is difficult, but especially for a military organized and trained for something different. In conventional warfighting, success comes from rapid maneuver and from identifying and destroying enemy military …
Abandoning Counterinsurgency
American Attitudes Toward Decolonization in Africa
This chapter examines the evolution of American attitudes toward the decolonization of Africa during the decade from 1952 to 1962. The Asian-African Conference, held in Bandung, Indonesia in April 1955, had heightened American fears that the newly independent nations, although operating under the guise of "non-alignment," were, in fact, inching toward the Communist camp. A major source of irritation with African leaders was the American satisfact…
Abandoning Counterinsurgency
This article introduces the value of great power, such as that applied in Israel's effective national defense strategy, to resolve the conundrum of eliminating global terrorism
Has the United States Lost the Ability to Fight a Major War
The 2015 National Military Strategy identifies war with a major power as a growing possibility. The more the United States demonstrates it is willing and able to undertake a big war, the more unlikely it is that it will have to do so. Thus, the US military should undertake analyses, wargames, and exercises focused on rapid expansion of the force, to include creating new formations. ********** After the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United…
The Modern American Military
The Internet, New Media, and the Evolution of Insurgency
Introduction Insurgency, like war, has an enduring nature and a changing character. It remains a strategy entailing violence used by the weak and desperate against a power system. (1) Often (but not always), this pits a nonstate or proto-state organization against a state. Out of weakness, the organization using a strategy of insurgency attempts to shift the focus of conflict away from domains where the state or other power structure is particula…
New Challenges and Old Concepts
F rom the 1960s to the 1980s stopping Communist-backed insurgents was an important part of American strategy, so counterinsurgency was an important mission for the US military, particularly the Army. Even when most of the Army turned its attention to large-scale warfighting and the operational art following Vietnam, special operation forces preserved some degree of capability. In the 1980s American involvement in El Salvador and a spate of insurg…
New Challenges and Old Concepts
From the 196Os to the 198Os stopping Communist-backed insurgents was an important part of American strategy, so counterinsurgency was an important mission for the US military, particularly the Army Even when most of the Army turned its attention to large-scale warfighting and the operational art following Vietnam, special operation forces preserved some degree of capability In the 198Os American involvement in El Salvador and a spate of insurgenc…
America’s Defense Transformation
Defense Strategy for the Post-Saddam Era
The Brookings Institution has long produced an analysis of America's defense budgets and policies. The war on terror and the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have forced upon this country soaring defense budgets and unprecedented challenges in policymaking. In the newest installment in this tradition, leading foreign policy expert Michael O'Hanlon offers policy recommendations for strengthening the ability of America's military to respo…
Intervention, Stabilization, and Transformation Operations
A historic shift has taken place in the strategic environment as globalization and interconnectedness propel the concept of security in new directions. Sovereignty is no longer sacrosanct. Now what takes place within states is of intense concern to the world. This shatters long-standing patterns in which even horrific internal conflicts were usually contained. Today, interconnectedness between states, their permeability, globalization of economie…
La guerre asymétrique et l'avenir de l'Occident
Une ère nouvelle s'est substituée à la guerre froide : celle de la guerre asymétrique. Paradoxalement, c'est l'efficacité des puissances occidentales en matière de guerre conventionnelle qui a poussé leurs adversaires à privilégier des stratégies d'asymétrie (la guérilla, l'insurrection, la guerre prolongée), face auxquelles ces mêmes armées occidentales ne sont ni les plus adaptées ni les plus efficaces. Les Etats occidentaux doivent donc révise…
Insurgency and counterinsurgency in Iraq
The United States faces an intractable dilemma in Iraq: insurgency if it stays or instability if it leaves. The sooner that a comprehensive counterinsurgency strategy, based on these six principles, can be implemented, the better the chances to forestall the threat
A strategic approach to African security
(2000). A strategic approach to African security: Challenges and prospects. African Security Review: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 3-18
Which Army After Next? The Strategic Implications of Alternative Futures
A Flame Kept Burning
Civil‐military relations in the United States
A Wake for Clausewitz
The Army and the Future of the International System
Americans are inherently practical people, preferring the immediate and the tangible to the long-range and the intangible.This characteristic has brought us immense success in all realms of life, but it also complicates the process of crafting a coherent national security strategy.By focusing too much on the immediate and the tangible, we can easily lapse into strategic myopia, thus simply postponing tough decisions and allowing small threats to …
Insurgency after the cold war
The Mark of Strategic Genius
During the last two decades of the Cold War, American strategy at the macro level was stagnant.The struggle was deadlocked; geography and ideology determined avenues of conflict with little opportunity for strategic flexibility or maneuver.While the Cold War occasionally spilled over into new areas and minor players switched sides, there was more strategic tinkering than innovation, more intra-alliance bargaining than creativity.Except at the fri…
Eisenhower and the planning of American grand strategy
(1991). Eisenhower and the planning of American grand strategy. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 49-71
Insurgency and counterinsurgency in Iraq
The United States faces an intractable dilemma in Iraq: insurgency if it stays or instability if it leaves. The sooner that a comprehensive counterinsurgency strategy, based on these six principles, can be implemented, the better the chances to forestall the threat
In Lieu of Orthodoxy
A quarter-centuryafter its inception, the diversity within 'African socialism' remains astonishing. This category now includes development strategies which range from traditional capitalism with limited sectoral planning to collective forms of national autarky. Although it is generally agreed that none of the forms of African socialism incorporates an 'orthodox' type of Marxism, the tremendous intellectual impact which Marx and Lenin have had on …
The Mozambique National Resistance and South African Foreign Policy
Journal Article THE MOZAMBIQUE NATIONAL RESISTANCE AND SOUTH AFRICAN FOREIGN POLICY Get access STEVEN METZ STEVEN METZ Visiting Assistant Professor Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityBlacksburg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 341, October 1986, Pages 491–507, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097815 Published: 01 October 1986
The Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Populist Instinct in American Politics
In the 1960s a group of individuals and organizations interested in encouraging greater American opposition to South Africa's policy of apartheid coalesced into a distinct political movement. Since then the anti-apartheid movement has remained remarkably persistent in its efforts, and has grown and developed both in size and political skill. At the same time this group has faced tremendous opposition to its program from a variety of sources, and …
La guerre asymétrique et l'avenir de l'Occident
Une ère nouvelle s'est substituée à la guerre froide : celle de la guerre asymétrique. Paradoxalement, c'est l'efficacité des puissances occidentales en matière de guerre conventionnelle qui a poussé leurs adversaires à privilégier des stratégies d'asymétrie (la guérilla, l'insurrection, la guerre prolongée), face auxquelles ces mêmes armées occidentales ne sont ni les plus adaptées ni les plus efficaces. Les Etats occidentaux doivent donc révise…
Insurgency after the cold war
Abandoning Counterinsurgency
This article introduces the value of great power, such as that applied in Israel's effective national defense strategy, to resolve the conundrum of eliminating global terrorism
America’s Defense Transformation
Foundation for a low‐intensity conflict strategy
Pursuing Moral Warfare
Most advanced militaries are optimized for conventional warfighting against the armed forces of other nations, but recently, some have been used for counterinsurgency. This is a challenge: even under the best of circumstances, counterinsurgency is difficult, but especially for a military organized and trained for something different. In conventional warfighting, success comes from rapid maneuver and from identifying and destroying enemy military …
Eisenhower and the planning of American grand strategy
(1991). Eisenhower and the planning of American grand strategy. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 49-71
Pretoria's “total strategy” and low‐intensity warfare in Southern Africa
Since the late 1970s the Republic of South Africa has faced mounting internal and external threats to the white regime which it assumes are motivated and controlled by the Soviet Union. Pretoria's response to this has been the creation of what is called the “Total Strategy.” This is characterized by a near wartime level of resource mobilization, the integration of political, economic, and military resources, and a combination of negative and posi…
In Lieu of Orthodoxy
A quarter-centuryafter its inception, the diversity within 'African socialism' remains astonishing. This category now includes development strategies which range from traditional capitalism with limited sectoral planning to collective forms of national autarky. Although it is generally agreed that none of the forms of African socialism incorporates an 'orthodox' type of Marxism, the tremendous intellectual impact which Marx and Lenin have had on …
Apartheid
Journal Article Apartheid: The United Nations and Peaceful Change in South Africa, by Özdemir A. Özgür Get access Apartheid: The United Nations and Peaceful Change in South Africa by Ozdemir A. Ozgur. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Transnational Publishers, 1982. 240 pp. $25.00. Steven Metz Steven Metz Towson State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 98, Issue 3, Fall 1983, P…
American Attitudes Toward Decolonization in Africa
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
The Expansion of International Society. Hedley Bull , Adam Watson
The Mozambique National Resistance and South African Foreign Policy
Journal Article THE MOZAMBIQUE NATIONAL RESISTANCE AND SOUTH AFRICAN FOREIGN POLICY Get access STEVEN METZ STEVEN METZ Visiting Assistant Professor Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityBlacksburg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 341, October 1986, Pages 491–507, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097815 Published: 01 October 1986
The Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Populist Instinct in American Politics
In the 1960s a group of individuals and organizations interested in encouraging greater American opposition to South Africa's policy of apartheid coalesced into a distinct political movement. Since then the anti-apartheid movement has remained remarkably persistent in its efforts, and has grown and developed both in size and political skill. At the same time this group has faced tremendous opposition to its program from a variety of sources, and …
Pretoria's “total strategy” and low‐intensity warfare in Southern Africa
Since the late 1970s the Republic of South Africa has faced mounting internal and external threats to the white regime which it assumes are motivated and controlled by the Soviet Union. Pretoria's response to this has been the creation of what is called the “Total Strategy.” This is characterized by a near wartime level of resource mobilization, the integration of political, economic, and military resources, and a combination of negative and posi…
The American Political Culture and Strategic Planning
Congress, the Antiapartheid Movement, and Nixon
The American civil rights movement emerged out of what Gunnar Myrdal described as the “tension” between the values of the American creed and the reality of race relations. The war in Vietnam had the same effect on foreign policy, as the incongruity between national values and the practice of militarized, great-power politics became intolerable. Before long the civil rights and antiwar movements blended, as such leaders as Martin Luther King, Jr.,…
The Crisis in South Africa
Counterinsurgent Campaign Planning
A frightening contradiction dominates the counterinsurgent environment: there is little indication that U.S. skill in this type of conflict has grown as rapidly as the strategic relevance of insurgency. This dangerous gap between capabilities and the extent of the threat, which first became evident during counterinsurgency's post-Vietnam Dark Ages, can be traced to a number of factors. Among the most pressing is the lack of a coherent planning pr…
Foundation for a low‐intensity conflict strategy
The Mark of Strategic Genius
During the last two decades of the Cold War, American strategy at the macro level was stagnant.The struggle was deadlocked; geography and ideology determined avenues of conflict with little opportunity for strategic flexibility or maneuver.While the Cold War occasionally spilled over into new areas and minor players switched sides, there was more strategic tinkering than innovation, more intra-alliance bargaining than creativity.Except at the fri…
Eisenhower and the planning of American grand strategy
(1991). Eisenhower and the planning of American grand strategy. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 49-71
A Wake for Clausewitz
The Army and the Future of the International System
Americans are inherently practical people, preferring the immediate and the tangible to the long-range and the intangible.This characteristic has brought us immense success in all realms of life, but it also complicates the process of crafting a coherent national security strategy.By focusing too much on the immediate and the tangible, we can easily lapse into strategic myopia, thus simply postponing tough decisions and allowing small threats to …
Insurgency after the cold war
A Flame Kept Burning
Civil‐military relations in the United States
Which Army After Next? The Strategic Implications of Alternative Futures
A strategic approach to African security
(2000). A strategic approach to African security: Challenges and prospects. African Security Review: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 3-18
La guerre asymétrique et l'avenir de l'Occident
Une ère nouvelle s'est substituée à la guerre froide : celle de la guerre asymétrique. Paradoxalement, c'est l'efficacité des puissances occidentales en matière de guerre conventionnelle qui a poussé leurs adversaires à privilégier des stratégies d'asymétrie (la guérilla, l'insurrection, la guerre prolongée), face auxquelles ces mêmes armées occidentales ne sont ni les plus adaptées ni les plus efficaces. Les Etats occidentaux doivent donc révise…
Insurgency and counterinsurgency in Iraq
The United States faces an intractable dilemma in Iraq: insurgency if it stays or instability if it leaves. The sooner that a comprehensive counterinsurgency strategy, based on these six principles, can be implemented, the better the chances to forestall the threat
Intervention, Stabilization, and Transformation Operations
A historic shift has taken place in the strategic environment as globalization and interconnectedness propel the concept of security in new directions. Sovereignty is no longer sacrosanct. Now what takes place within states is of intense concern to the world. This shatters long-standing patterns in which even horrific internal conflicts were usually contained. Today, interconnectedness between states, their permeability, globalization of economie…
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