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Strategic narratives and US surrogate warfare / Thomas Waldman

Waldman, Thomas

Survival . ISSN0039-6338 . London : IISS, Vol. 61, no 1 (Fev./Mar. 2019) , p. 169-178

In an age of indefinite interventions, the United States has deemed it necessary to share the strategic and operational burden of war by delegating important tasks to surrogate forces. Surrogate warfare encompasses the delegation of core aspects of war-related activities to external state and nonstate actors in order to actively influence the course of an ongoing conflict. Such delegation to surrogates is conscious and intentional, and the basic terms of the relationship (which may be tacit or explicit) between sponsor and proxy beneficiary are mutually understood. Surrogate warfare also assumes a shared adversary, and some degree of convergence of objectives between proxy and sponsor. Within these broad parameters, a spectrum of surrogate warfare emerges: delegation can be complete, entailing total substitution of the sponsor by a proxy force, or partial, involving a simultaneous direct American troop presence or concurrent operations, such as advisory missions or ‘compound warfare’. Surrogate warfare could even be understood to include the sponsor's active toleration of the activities of certain groups which it has the power to neutralise – for instance, acquiescence to the actions of Iranian-backed Shia Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) in Iraq...[Da introd.]

Estados Unidos; guerra; estratégia militar; guerra por procuração

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