Amos C Fox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3086522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amos C Fox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amos C |
| FAMILY NAME | Fox |
| SIGNATURE | FOX A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8455-3742 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Theory of positional warfare
Contemporary strategy lacks a good and correct understanding of positional warfare. This article finds that positional warfare is an approach to warfare in which one combatant purposefully manipulates movement and firepower in relation to the terrain, and force dispositions within that terrain, in pursuit of strategic and military objectives. Moreover, a combatant uses positional warfare to preserve their combat power, slow or impede their oppone…
Minimalist strategy
This article examines contemporary proxy war literature, highlighting a distinguishable pattern in the post-9/11 era. The Deniability Strategy, characterized by indirect intervention and plausible deniability, is juxtaposed with the emerging Minimalist Strategy, which emphasizes transparent state involvement using in-lieu-of actors (ILOA) as proxies. The Minimalist Strategy accounts for modern military and information technology, which reduces th…
The Israel-Hamas conflict
This article discusses the Israel-Hamas conflict, focusing on the ‘survive-win’ cycle and the concept of attrition in armed conflict. It highlights how power differentials between combatants – like Hamas and the Israeli Defense Force – lead to strategies like positional warfare and Fabian tactics, ultimately resulting in wars of attrition. Further, research illustrates that attrition is a fundamental aspect of conflict, challenging the idea that …
Comparative proxy strategies in the Russo-Ukrainian War
This article examines the role of strategy in proxy wars, with the goal of identifying relevant findings to proxy wars. Comparatively analyzing Russia and the U.S.’s proxy strategies in the Russo-Ukrainian War is useful to this end – four major findings emerge. First, a state’s proxy strategy is dependent on variables unique to that state, and those of the available proxy. Second, proxies – the actual individuals or groups – are not singular in t…
The donbas in flames
Russia's 2014-20 Donbas campaign effectively accomplished its assigned military objectives. Yet, this success is often lost because the discussion tails off into discussions on the Gerasimov doctrine, hybrid warfare, or critiques of policy and strategy. However, an operational level analysis contends that Russia effectively used irregular warfare, by linking proxy-Russian forces, to wage a manufactured insurgency to bring Kyiv to the bargaining t…
Russo-Ukrainian Patterns of Genocide in the Twentieth Century
Russo-Ukrainian relations in the 20th Century are dominated by genocide. Using Raphel Lemkin and Martin Shaw as a guide, one finds that Russo-Ukrainian relations during the 20th Century was a long period of genocidal action, linked by periods of punctuated genocides. These genocides included several political genocides that quelled Ukrainian nationalism and independence and kept it subjugated to Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia's genocide during the …
Strategic Relationships, Risk, and Proxy War
Proxy wars dominate modern war fighting. Despite the frequency of proxy wars on today's battle field, the strategic studies community lacks sufficient models and strategic theories to frame proxy wars from the strategic level. This works seeks to build on the limited amount of preexisting theoretical work on proxy war by introducing five models of proxy relation - coerced, transactional, cultural, exploitative, and contractual. This models help p…
The donbas in flames
Russia's 2014-20 Donbas campaign effectively accomplished its assigned military objectives. Yet, this success is often lost because the discussion tails off into discussions on the Gerasimov doctrine, hybrid warfare, or critiques of policy and strategy. However, an operational level analysis contends that Russia effectively used irregular warfare, by linking proxy-Russian forces, to wage a manufactured insurgency to bring Kyiv to the bargaining t…
Russo-Ukrainian Patterns of Genocide in the Twentieth Century
Russo-Ukrainian relations in the 20th Century are dominated by genocide. Using Raphel Lemkin and Martin Shaw as a guide, one finds that Russo-Ukrainian relations during the 20th Century was a long period of genocidal action, linked by periods of punctuated genocides. These genocides included several political genocides that quelled Ukrainian nationalism and independence and kept it subjugated to Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia's genocide during the …
Russo-Ukrainian Patterns of Genocide in the Twentieth Century
Russo-Ukrainian relations in the 20th Century are dominated by genocide. Using Raphel Lemkin and Martin Shaw as a guide, one finds that Russo-Ukrainian relations during the 20th Century was a long period of genocidal action, linked by periods of punctuated genocides. These genocides included several political genocides that quelled Ukrainian nationalism and independence and kept it subjugated to Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia's genocide during the …
Strategic Relationships, Risk, and Proxy War
Proxy wars dominate modern war fighting. Despite the frequency of proxy wars on today's battle field, the strategic studies community lacks sufficient models and strategic theories to frame proxy wars from the strategic level. This works seeks to build on the limited amount of preexisting theoretical work on proxy war by introducing five models of proxy relation - coerced, transactional, cultural, exploitative, and contractual. This models help p…
The donbas in flames
Russia's 2014-20 Donbas campaign effectively accomplished its assigned military objectives. Yet, this success is often lost because the discussion tails off into discussions on the Gerasimov doctrine, hybrid warfare, or critiques of policy and strategy. However, an operational level analysis contends that Russia effectively used irregular warfare, by linking proxy-Russian forces, to wage a manufactured insurgency to bring Kyiv to the bargaining t…
Comparative proxy strategies in the Russo-Ukrainian War
This article examines the role of strategy in proxy wars, with the goal of identifying relevant findings to proxy wars. Comparatively analyzing Russia and the U.S.’s proxy strategies in the Russo-Ukrainian War is useful to this end – four major findings emerge. First, a state’s proxy strategy is dependent on variables unique to that state, and those of the available proxy. Second, proxies – the actual individuals or groups – are not singular in t…
Minimalist strategy
This article examines contemporary proxy war literature, highlighting a distinguishable pattern in the post-9/11 era. The Deniability Strategy, characterized by indirect intervention and plausible deniability, is juxtaposed with the emerging Minimalist Strategy, which emphasizes transparent state involvement using in-lieu-of actors (ILOA) as proxies. The Minimalist Strategy accounts for modern military and information technology, which reduces th…
The Israel-Hamas conflict
This article discusses the Israel-Hamas conflict, focusing on the ‘survive-win’ cycle and the concept of attrition in armed conflict. It highlights how power differentials between combatants – like Hamas and the Israeli Defense Force – lead to strategies like positional warfare and Fabian tactics, ultimately resulting in wars of attrition. Further, research illustrates that attrition is a fundamental aspect of conflict, challenging the idea that …
Theory of positional warfare
Contemporary strategy lacks a good and correct understanding of positional warfare. This article finds that positional warfare is an approach to warfare in which one combatant purposefully manipulates movement and firepower in relation to the terrain, and force dispositions within that terrain, in pursuit of strategic and military objectives. Moreover, a combatant uses positional warfare to preserve their combat power, slow or impede their oppone…
Political science (6 works) · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Proxy (statistics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)