Hybrid warfare has been an integral part of the historical landscape since the ancient world; but only recently have analysts - incorrectly - categorized these conflicts as unique. Great powers throughout history have confronted opponents who used a combination of regular and irregular forces to negate the advantage of the great powers' superior conventional military strength. As this study shows; hybrid wars are labor-intensive and long-term affairs; they are difficult struggles that defy the domestic logic of opinion polls and election cycles. Hybrid wars are also the most likely conflicts of the twenty-first century; as competitors use hybrid forces to wear down America's military capabilities in extended campaigns of exhaustion. Nine historical examples of hybrid warfare; from ancient Rome to the modern world; provide readers with context by clarifying the various aspects of conflicts and examining how great powers have dealt with them in the past.
#1084611 in Books Lubet Steven 2015-09-10Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.98 x .94 x 5.98l; .0 #File Name: 1107076021282 pagesThe Colored Hero of Harper s Ferry John Anthony Copeland and the War Against Slavery
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. He describes in great detail the perfidy of slave owners and the evil ...By Jeffry V. MallowLaw professor Steven Lubet has done it again. As in his earlier book about John Brown’s spy John Cook; Lubet illuminates the events leading up to the Harpers Ferry raid; but this time through the biography of one of the black men who fought alongside Brown. John Anthony Copeland was a free black; born in North Carolina the son of free blacks. His family moved north to the abolitionist town of Oberlin; Ohio. This book is as much about Oberlin as about Copeland. That remarkable integrated community served as a haven for free blacks and for runaway slaves; who were protected by Oberlin residents or spirited to Canada. Copeland himself escorted an escaped slave across the border.Copeland was both an anti-slavery revolutionary and a deeply religious man. The latter strongly influenced the former; perhaps was even the dominant influence in his activities; up to and including the Harpers Ferry raid. Lubet paints a detailed picture of Copeland; his surroundings; his family and friends; and his conversion to militancy. As in all of Lubet’s books--and I have read them all--; he combines dramatic storytelling with impeccable scholarship. This is (the phrase sounds oxymoronic!) an erudite page-turner. He describes in detail the perfidy of slave owners and the evil they supported; an evil endorsed by the US Supreme Court in the notorious Dred Scott decision; depriving blacks of citizenship; and the Fugitive Slave Act (the subject of yet another Lubet book); further enabling slave hunters to carry out their mission in both north and south.Like the other captured raiders and Brown himself; Copeland was hanged. At least as awful as the capture was the post mortem treatment of Copeland and another black; Shields Green. In a book replete with descriptions of the horrors endured by blacks; slave and free; I found this chapter the most horrifying. Despite pleas from the families; the decaying bodies were delivered to a local medical school whose students threatened the lawyer sent to retrieve them; essentially driving him out of town.John Brown’s leadership of the raid has been well studied. Not so the lives of his fellow raiders; and especially not of the black men among them. For this; Steven Lubet is owed a debt of gratitude. And not only for this; but for once again giving the lie to the claims of the revisionists and irredentists. The Civil War wasn’t about states’ rights or about economics or about “northern aggression.†It was about slavery.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Forgotten HeroBy Ms. L.This book is very well-written; and really portrays John Copeland; who was my great great uncle!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The content of the book is fine; but the book itself when we received it ...By Oberlin Heritage CenterThe content of the book is fine; but the book itself when we received it was not in New condition
