Questions important now like never before : asymmetry of war of warfare?

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Asymmetry of warfare, or more often asymmetric warfare, is an issue often referred to in descriptions of contemporary political and military relations affecting the state. It is even presented as an entity threatened by these hostilities. Meanwhile, these acts are a form of an armed conflict in which opposing sides have different military potentials. One of the potentials is the power of the state. We must wonder then how the state uses it. Is it not an entity who uses it in a way disproportionate to the situation of conflict? The paper argues that a contemporary state is not without sin and it is not just that it is not able to protect its interests from asymmetric threats. Warfare still is, which many forget, the basis for hostilities (war). In the author’s understanding (erroneous perhaps?) asymmetry does not only occur at the level of war, but it also happens in its key dimension – warfare. It has emerged not only through the change in the status of the fighting party, but also through the time of warfare and using the warfare terrain.

Tytuł
Questions important now like never before : asymmetry of war of warfare?
Twórca
Piątek Jarosław ORCID 0000-0003-4754-3371
Słowa kluczowe
war; terrain; time; soldier; factors of asymmetry; military strategy; symmetry; state; armed forces; asymmetric warfare; terrorists
Słowa kluczowe
wojna; teren; czas; żołnierz; czynniki asymetrii; strategia militarna; symetria; państwo; siły zbrojne; walka asymetryczna; terroryści
Data
2018
Typ zasobu
artykuł
Identyfikator zasobu
DOI 10.15804/rop201803
Źródło
Reality of Politics : estimates, comments, forecasts, 2018, no. 9, s. 44-59
Język
angielski
Prawa autorskie
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Kategorie
Publikacje pracowników US
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