Three Dangerous Men - Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare

Conventional warfare-clashes between large military forces-defined twentieth-century power. But today, facing a dominant American military, principal adversaries Russia, China and Iran, have adopted a new style of competition. Cyber attacks, covert action, proxy conflicts, information and disinformation campaigns, espionage and economic coercion-these are the tools of irregular or asymmetric warfare, which will increasingly reshape international politics.

In Three Dangerous Men, defence expert Seth G. Jones profiles pioneers of irregular warfare in Moscow, Beijing and Tehran who adapted American techniques and made huge gains without waging traditional warfare. Drawing on interviews with dozens of US military, diplomatic and intelligence officials, such as CIA directors Michael Hayden and David Petraeus, the author demonstrates why the US abandoned its own irregular capabilities and is thus steadily losing ground to its global adversaries. Jones argues the US must significantly alter how it thinks about-and engages in-competition before it is too late.

About the author

Seth G. Jones is the senior vice president, Harold Brown Chair, and director of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), as well as the author of Three Dangerous Men, A Covert Action, In the Graveyard of Empires, and Hunting in the Shadows. He lives outside of Washington, DC.

Product details

• Authors: Seth G. Jones
• Publisher: Norton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.05.2022
• EAN: 9781324006206
• ISBN: 978-1-324-00620-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 247 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 518 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Eastern Europe, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Warfare & defence, Warfare and defence, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms