Low-intensity Conflict

Part 1 The challenge, the concepts and the context: introduction, Stephen Sloan United States government organization and capability to deal with low-intensity conflict, Ambassador Edwin G. Corr and Ambassador David C. Miller, Jr the threat in the contemporary peace environment - the challenge to change perspectives, Max G. Manwaring conflict in the post-Cold War era, General John R. Galvin. Part 2 Selected cases of low-intensity conflict: Thailand - the domino that did not fall, Robert F. Zimmerman the Guatemalan counter-insurgency campaign of 1982-1985 - a strategy of going it alone, Caesar D. Sereseres Ethiopia - a successful insurgency, Ambassador James Cheek the shining path in Peru - insurgency and the drug problem, David Scott Palmer Iran - terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism, Sean K. Anderson Afghanistan - low-intensity conflict with major-power intervention, David C. Isby El Salvador - transforming society to win the peace, Ambassador E.G. Corr and Colonel Courtney E. Prisk (ret). Part 3 Implications and conclusions: government, politics and low-intensity conflict, Thomas A. Grant low-intensity conflict and the international legal system, John Norton Moore implications of low-intensity conflict for United States policy and strategy, Admiral William J. Crowe final reflections, S. Sloan.