Latin America's new security reality : irregular asymmetric conflict and Hugo Chavez / Max G. Manwaring.
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.
Electronic resources
Record details
- ISBN: 1584873035
- ISBN: 9781584873037
- Physical Description: vii, 62 pages : digital, PDF file.
- Publisher: [Carlisle Barracks, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2007]
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "August 2007."GPO Cataloging Record Distribution Program (CRDP).Title from title screen (viewed on Sept. 4, 2007).
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 52-62).
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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.
- System Details Note:
- Mode of access: Internet from the STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE web site. Address as of 10/04/2007: http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB808.pdf; current access is available via PURL.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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