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Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2017

Winning Without Killing:The Strategic and Operational Utility of Non-Kinetic Capabilities in Crises

  • Written by academics with both practical and theoretical experience
  • Addresses counter measures to hybrid crisis
  • Offers both strategic and operational insights to non-kinetic conflict resolution
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: NL ARMS (NLARMS)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. The Resilient Mind-Set and Deterrence

    • Theo Brinkel
    Pages 19-38
  3. Manoeuvring and Generating Effects in the Information Environment

    • Paul A L Ducheine, Jelle van Haaster, Richard van Harskamp
    Pages 155-179
  4. Strategic Counter-Marketing to Fight ISIL

    • Jan van Lieshout, Robert Beeres
    Pages 181-194
  5. Profiling Terrorists—Using Statistics to Fight Terrorism

    • Robert Beeres, Robert Bertrand, Myriame Bollen
    Pages 221-235
  6. Reframing Lawfare

    • Joop Voetelink
    Pages 237-254
  7. Jamming and Spoofing: Effective Cyber Weapons Looking for a Defence

    • Barend Lubbers, Eric Theunissen, Patrick Oonincx
    Pages 275-286
  8. Winning Without Killing in the South China Sea

    • Niels Woudstra
    Pages 287-299
  9. Employing Comprehensive Intelligence: The UN Experience in Mali

    • Sebastiaan Rietjens, Erik de Waard, Paul C. van Fenema
    Pages 313-332

About this book

With a foreword by Major-General Nico Geerts, Commander Netherlands Defence Academy, Breda, The Netherlands


International conflict resolution increasingly involves the use of non-military power and non-kinetic capabilities alongside military capabilities in the face of hybrid threats. In this book, counter-measures to those threats are addressed by academics with both practical and theoretical experience and knowledge, providing strategic and operational insights into non-kinetic conflict resolution and on the use of power to influence, affect, deter or coerce states and non-state actors.


This volume in the NL ARMS series deals with the non-kinetic capabilities to address international crises and conflicts and as always views matters from a global perspective. Included are chapters on the promise, practice and challenges of non-kinetic instruments of power, the instrumentality of soft power, information as a power instrumentand manoeuvring in the information environment, Russia's use of deception and misinformation in conflict, applying counter-marketing techniques to fight ISIL, using statistics to profile terrorists, and employing tools such as Actor and Audience Analysis. Such diverse subjects as lawfare, the Law of Armed Conflict rules for non-kinetic cyber attacks, navigation warfare, GPS-spoofing, maritime interception operations, and finally, as a prerequisite, innovative ways for intelligence collection in UN Peacekeeping in Mali come up for discussion.
The book will provide both professionals such as (foreign) policy makers and those active in the military services, academics at a master level and those with an interest in military law and the law of armed conflict with useful and up-to-date insights into the wide range of subjects that are contained within it.


Paul A.L. Ducheine and Frans P.B. Osinga are General Officers and full professors at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy in Breda, The Netherlands.


Specific to this volume in the Series:


• Written by academics with both practical and theoretical experience
• Addresses counter measures to hybrid crises
• Offers both strategic and operational insights to non-kinetic conflict resolution

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Military Sciences, Netherlands Defence Academy, Breda, The Netherlands

    Paul A.L. Ducheine, Frans P.B. Osinga

Bibliographic Information

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Hardcover Book USD 64.99
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