Book contents
- Rebels and Conflict Escalation
- Rebels and Conflict Escalation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Vignettes
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Rebels and Escalation
- 2 Escalation and De-Escalation
- 3 Political Opportunity and Rebel Violence
- 4 Political Will
- 5 Capabilities
- 6 Capabilities
- 7 Political Will
- 8 Legitimacy and Support
- 9 De-Escalation
- 10 The Escalation and De-Escalation of Rebel Violence
- References
- Index
6 - Capabilities
Substitution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2021
Book contents
- Rebels and Conflict Escalation
- Rebels and Conflict Escalation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Vignettes
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Rebels and Escalation
- 2 Escalation and De-Escalation
- 3 Political Opportunity and Rebel Violence
- 4 Political Will
- 5 Capabilities
- 6 Capabilities
- 7 Political Will
- 8 Legitimacy and Support
- 9 De-Escalation
- 10 The Escalation and De-Escalation of Rebel Violence
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter six looks at the operational and tactical levels of strategy and brings forward the phenomenon of substitution. Substitution, or the waterbed effect, occurs as a result of counter-measures and means a displacement of violent activities towards other targets, tactics, territory or time frames. Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers and Nicaragua’s Sandinist National Liberation Front are the two vignettes treated here. The Tigers are notable for their military defeat in 2009 and the SNLF for their ultimate military success in overthrowing the Somoza dictatorship at the end of the 1970s.
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- Rebels and Conflict EscalationExplaining the Rise and Decline in Violence, pp. 110 - 125Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021