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Few global security issues stimulate more fervent passion than the application of brute force. Despite the fierce debate raging about it in government, society and the Academy, inadequate strategic understanding surrounds the issue, prompting the urgent need for -the first comprehensive systematic global analysis of 21st century state-initiated internal and external applications of brute force. Based on extensive case evidence, Robert Mandel assesses the short-term and long-term, the local and global, the military, political, economic, and social, and the state and human security impacts of brute force. He explicitly isolates the conditions under which brute force works best and worst by highlighting force initiator and force target attributes linked to brute force success and common but low-impact force legitimacy concerns. Mandel comes to two major overarching conclusions. First, that the modern global application of brute force shows a pattern of futility-but one that is more a function of states' misapplication of brute force than of the inherent deficiencies of this instrument itself. Second, that the realm for successful application of state-initiated brute force is shrinking: for while state-initiated brute force can serve as a transitional short-run local military solution, he says, it cannot by itself provide a long-run global strategic solution or serve as a cure for human security problems. Taking the evidence and his conclusions together, Mandel provides policy advice for managing brute force use in the modern world.

In recent decades, government and military officials alike have pushed increasingly in the direction of "bloodless wars," where confrontations are undertaken—and ultimately won—with minimum loss of human life. Robert Mandel provides the first comprehensive analysis of this trend. After exploring the moral, legal, military, and political bases of the desire to minimize wartime casualties, Mandel examines the actual strategies and tools involved; here, the focus is on nonlethal weapons, precision-guided munitions, and information warfare. He then addresses the sobering practical constraints on aspirations to minimize casualties. His concluding review of policy options draws lessons from premodern patterns of warfare and calls for a more realistic understanding of the strategies available in today's security environment

Global information overload -- Global strategic manipulation -- Global data shock case studies -- Emerging case patterns -- Managing global data shock.

Intro; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: The Current Global Human Security Predicament; Chapter Two: Paradoxes Surrounding State Protection of Citizens; Chapter Three: Futile Fear-Based State Threat Responses; Chapter Four: Distorted Fear-Based Citizen Safety Images; Chapter Five: Global Case Studies about the Illusion of Citizen Protection; Chapter Six: Case Analysis and Emerging Patterns; Chapter Seven: Obstacles to Reducing Citizen Insecurity; Chapter Eight: Enhancing Genuine Citizen Protection; Conclusion; Index; About the Author

Cyberattacks are one of the greatest fears for both governments and the private sector. The attacks come without warning and can be extremely costly and embarrassing. Robert Mandel offers a unique and comprehensive strategic vision for how governments, in partnership with the private sector, can deter cyberattacks from both nonstate and state actors. Cyberdeterrence must be different from conventional military or nuclear deterrence, which are mainly based on dissuading an attack by forcing the aggressor to face unacceptable costs. In the cyber realm, where attributing a specific attack to a specific actor is extremely difficult, conventional deterrence principles are not enough. Mandel says that cyberdeterrence must alter a potential attacker's decision calculus by not only raising costs for the attacker but also by limiting the prospects for gain. Cyberdeterrence must also involve public-private partnerships, cross-domain responses must be considered, not just retaliation in kind. The book includes twelve twenty-first century cyberattack case studies in order to draw insights into cyberdeterrence and determine the conditions under which it works most effectively. Mandel concludes by making recommendations for implementing cyberdeterrence and integrating it into broader national security policy

1. Introduction: Analytical Focus 1. - 2. The Nature of Stability 14. - 3. The Nature of armed Nonstate Groups 37. - 4. The Transformation in Global Security Control 62. - 5. Case Studies of Armed Nonstate Group Control Attempts 89. - 6. Analysis of Case Study Patterns 147. - 7. Private Coercive Stability Promotion Complexities 169. - 8. Conclusion: Policy Guidelines 196

This book constitutes the first major study showing (1) when transnational organized crime is likely to use corruption and violence tactics, (2) when transnational criminal activities most affect individual and state security, and (3) when the negative consequences of these tactics and activities can be most successfully combated.

Introduction : military victory and strategic victory -- Modern victory in historical context -- Morality and victory -- Misconceptions surrounding victory -- Victory in recent wars? -- Victory challenges in contemporary warfare -- Special victory challenges in unconventional wars -- Conclusion : managing strategic victory