| Description |
vii, 62 p. : digital, PDF file. |
| System Details |
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
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Mode of access via the STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE web site. |
| Note |
Title from title screen (viewed on Sept. 4, 2007). |
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"August 2007." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-62). |
| Contents |
4GW challenges: broadening the concepts of threat and conflict -- The transformation and broadening of the notion of conflict -- Implications: Latin America security and sovereignty under siege -- Rethinking threat and response: moving from a military to a populace-oriented conflict model -- What must be done-first. |
| Summary |
In 2005, Dr. Manwaring wrote a monograph entitled Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Bolivarian Socialism, and Asymmetric Warfare. It came at a time when the United States and Venezuela were accelerating a verbal sparing match regarding which country was destabilizing Latin America more. President Chavez shows no sign of standing down; he slowly and deliberately centralizes his power in Venezuela, and carefully and adroitly articulates his Bolivarian dream (the idea of a Latin American Liberation Movement against U.S. economic and political imperialism). Yet, most North Americans dismiss Chavez as a "nut case," or--even if he is a threat to the security and stability of the Hemisphere--the possibilities of that threat coming to fruition are too far into the future to worry about. Dr. Manwaring's intent is to explain in greater depth what President Chavez is doing and how he is doing it. First, he explains that Hugo Chavez's threat is straightforward, and that it is being translated into a consistent, subtle, ambiguous, and ambitious struggle for power that is beginning to insinuate itself into political life in much of the Western Hemisphere. Second, he shows how President Chavez is encouraging his Venezuelan and other followers to pursue a confrontational, populist, and nationalistic agenda that will be achieved only by (1) radically changing the traditional politics of the Venezuelan state--and other Latin American states--to that of "direct" (totalitarian) democracy; (2) destroying North American hegemony throughout all of Latin America by conducting an irregular Fourth-Generation War "Super Insurgency"; and, (3) country-by-country, building a great new Bolivarian state out of a phased Program for the Liberation of Latin America. |
| Subject |
Chavez Frias, Hugo.
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Asymmetric warfare -- Latin America.
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United States -- Relations -- Latin America.
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Latin America -- Relations -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute.
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| Added Title |
Irregular asymmetric conflict and Hugo Chavez |
| Other Form: |
Manwaring, Max G. Latin America's new security reality vii, 62 p. (OCoLC)166422130 |
| ISBN |
1584873035 |
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9781584873037 |
| Gpo Item No. |
0307-A-51 (online) |
| Sudoc No. |
D 101.146/12:L 34 |
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