Minimalist strategy
Conflict delegation and proxy use on transparent battlefields
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11221363 |
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| Authors | Amos C Fox (0000-0001-8455-3742, AZ State University’s Future Security Initiative, Tempe, AZ, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 524-546 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Strategy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-5933 • E-ISSN: 1521-0448 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01495933.2024.2383150 |
| OpenAlex | W4401510945 |
| Language | EN |
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 the effectiveness of non-attributional tactics. The article identifies three infra-strategies within the Minimalist Strategy: Auxiliary, Replacement, and Front Strategies, each serving different state needs in conflict. Through analysis of the Russo-Ukrainian War, the article demonstrates the viability of the Minimalist Strategy and its implications for future proxy wars, offering a complementary framework to enhance existing scholarship
Delegation · Law and economics · Political science · Proxy (statistics · Public relations · Scholarship · Sociology · Computer Science · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · Law · Military Technology and Strategies
| Highly cited | No |
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