Overview
- Offers a security-focused assessment of the history and future of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and remote killings
- Presents multiple case studies: the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan; the Irish Republican Army; Hezbollah; the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE); and the use of IEDs by state actors during both the Second World War and the Cold War
- Primes readers with a comprehensive and accessible overview of the ethical questions surrounding this peace and conflict phenomenon
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Book Title: Improvised Explosive Devices
Book Subtitle: The Paradigmatic Weapon of New Wars
Authors: James Revill
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33834-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-33833-0Published: 26 July 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81614-2Published: 31 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-33834-7Published: 15 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 134
Topics: Military and Defence Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, Security Science and Technology, Conflict Studies, Comparative Politics