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The insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus : from gazavat to jihad

The unique geopolitical characteristics of the North Caucasus has made it a site of conflict for thousands of years. It was, in many ways, the testing and training grounds for today's conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Understanding this volatile region is especially important now in light of President Obama's effort to "reset" the relationship between Russia and the United States.

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  • "Many books have been written about the history of Chechnya, the political events precipitating the wars, the military operations, the terrorist attacks, the human rights abuses, and the trauma suffered by almost everyone involved in the conflict. What has yet to be published is a look at the conflict for what it really is-- an insurgency and counterinsurgency fight, an issue that the United States has also faced since 9-11. Defining the North Caucasus conflict in these terms is imperative if we want to fully understand it, as this class of warfare will become increasingly more prevalent in future conflicts. So as we strive to learn from history in order not to relive it, it is critical to delineate why the Russians claimed the conflict was over when it is becoming increasingly obvious that the upswing of violence in the region is readying it to explode again. The bottom line is that the Chechen insurgency is growing and has now spread to Ingushetia and Dagestan, among others. It is more accurately referred to now as the North Caucasus insurgency. It is not a black and white issue, and if one is to discover the reasons why the insurgency is still active, the reasons why it hasn't made further gains, or the reasons why the Russians have not been able to extinguish it completely, then it is imperative to get below the surface of the vitriol and hyperbole. In order to examine Chechnya through a framework of insurgency and counterinsurgency models, the popular information surrounding it must be stripped of its associated moral "value." To this end, this book endeavors to be an "amoral" examination; judgments about whether an insurgent or counterinsurgent action is "right" or "wrong" will be offered only insofar as that action is consistent with current or historical doctrine and contemporary best-practice approaches to this type of warfare. The goal of this book is to get past the politics, the rhetoric, the tactics, the value-judgments, the disinformation, and the condemnations to discover the elements and laws of Chechnya's revolutionary, and Russia's counter-revolutionary, wars."
  • "The unique geopolitical characteristics of the North Caucasus has made it a site of conflict for thousands of years. It was, in many ways, the testing and training grounds for today's conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Understanding this volatile region is especially important now in light of President Obama's effort to "reset" the relationship between Russia and the United States."@en

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  • "Military history"
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  • "The insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus : from gazavat to jihad"@en
  • "The insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus : from gazavat to jihad"
  • "The insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus from Gazavat to Jihad"
  • "The insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus from gazavat to jihad"@en
  • "Insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus : from Gazavat to Jihad"

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