External links
- Andrew Mumford publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Theory-testing Uyghur terrorism in China. Perspectives on Terrorism 12.5 (2018):18–26.
- Proxy Warfare and the Future of Conflict. The RUSI Journal 158.2 (2013):40–46.
Andrew Mumford | |
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| Born | 1983 (age 39–40) North Yorkshire |
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| Thesis | From Belfast to Basra: Britain and the 'Tri-partite Counter-Insurgency Model' (2009) |
| Doctoral advisor | Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, Richard J. Aldrich |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | War studies |
| Institutions | University of Nottingham |
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Andrew Mumford FRHistS (born 1983 [1] ) is a British political scientist,military historian,and Professor of War Studies in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. [2] He is a member of the EU/NATO Hybrid Threats Centre of Excellence expert pool on security and has consulted the UK Ministry of Defence and NATO. In December 2018,he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. [3] [4] [5] He is the editor of the Bloomsbury book series Studies in Contemporary Warfare. [6] [2]
In 2009,Mumford received his ESRC-funded PhD from the University of Warwick in International Relations. He was a Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Terrorism (ICST) at Pennsylvania State University in 2007,and taught at the University of Hull (2009-2010) and University of Sheffield (2010-2011). [2] [3] He served as the Book Review Editor of Civil Wars (2008-2012). [3]
Between 2011 and 2015,Mumford was an Assistant Professor. He also served as an Associate Editor of Political Studies (2011-2017). Between 2015 and 2020,he was an Associate Professor. In 2020,Mumford was promoted to Professor. [3]
Between 2020 and 2021,Mumford was a Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) Academic Fellow in the UK House of Commons International Affairs Unit. [6] [2]
Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military,such as rebels,partisans,paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children,use ambushes,sabotage,terrorism,raids,petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion,in a violent conflict,in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military,police or rival insurgent forces.
Asymmetric warfare is a type of war between belligerents whose relative military power,strategy,or tactics differ significantly. This type of warfare often,but not necessarily,involves insurgents or resistance movement militias who may have the status of unlawful combatants against a standing army.
Unconventional warfare (UW) is broadly defined as "military and quasi-military operations other than conventional warfare" and may use covert forces,subversion,or guerrilla warfare. This is typically done to avoid escalation into conventional warfare as well as international conventions.
A proxy war is an armed conflict between two states or non-state actors,one or both of which act at the instigation or on behalf of other parties that are not directly involved in the hostilities. In order for a conflict to be considered a proxy war,there must be a direct,long-term relationship between external actors and the belligerents involved. The aforementioned relationship usually takes the form of funding,military training,arms,or other forms of material assistance which assist a belligerent party in sustaining its war effort.
An insurgency is a violent,armed rebellion by small,lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare from primarily rural base areas against a larger authority. The key descriptive feature of insurgency is its asymmetric nature:small irregular forces face a large,well-equipped,regular military force state adversary. Due to this asymmetry,insurgents avoid large-scale direct battles,opting instead to blend in with the civilian population where they gradually expand territorial control and military forces. Insurgency frequently hinges on control of and collaboration with local populations.
Counterinsurgency is "the totality of actions aimed at defeating irregular forces". The Oxford English Dictionary defines counterinsurgency as any "military or political action taken against the activities of guerrillas or revolutionaries" and can be considered war by a state against a non-state adversary. Insurgency and counterinsurgency campaigns have been waged since ancient history. However,modern thinking on counterinsurgency was developed during decolonization. Within the military sciences,counterinsurgency is one of the main operational approaches of irregular warfare.
ProfessorRohan Gunaratna is a threat specialist of the global security environment. Professor Gunaratna has over 30 years of academic,policy,and operational experience in national and international security. He is Professor of Security Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies,Nanyang Technology University,Singapore.
Seth G. Jones is an academic,political scientist and author. Jones is most renowned for his work on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism;much of his published material and media presence relates to US strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan,and in confronting al-Qāʿida. He is currently a senior vice president,Harold Brown Chair,director of the International Security Program,and director of the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
David John Kilcullen FRGS is an Australian author,strategist,and counterinsurgency expert who is currently the non-executive chairman of Caerus Associates,a strategy and design consulting firm that he founded. He is a professor at Arizona State University and at University of New South Wales,Canberra.
Irregular warfare (IW) is defined in United States joint doctrine as "a violent struggle among state and non-state actors for legitimacy and influence over the relevant populations." In practice,control of institutions and infrastructure is also important. Concepts associated with irregular warfare are older than the term itself.
Bruce R. Hoffman is an American political analyst. He specializes in the study of terrorism,counter-terrorism,insurgency,and counter-insurgency. Hoffman serves as the Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security on the Council on Foreign Relations,and is a professor at the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University,where he directs its Center for Jewish Civilization. In addition,he is the Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professor of Terrorism Studies at the University of St Andrews,and is the George H. Gilmore Senior Fellow at the U.S. Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center.
Beatrice Heuser,is an historian and political scientist. She holds the chair of International Relations at the University of Glasgow.
Edward J. Erickson is a retired regular U.S. Army officer at the Marine Corps University who has written widely on the Ottoman Army during World War I. He is an associate of International Research Associates,Seattle,Washington and as of July 2016 was also listed as an advisory board member of the Ankara-based,Turkish government aligned think-tank,Avrasya Incelemeleri Merkezi (AVIM),which goes by the English name Center for Eurasian Studies.
Hybrid warfare is a theory of military strategy,first proposed by Frank Hoffman,which employs political warfare and blends conventional warfare,irregular warfare,and cyberwarfare with other influencing methods,such as fake news,diplomacy,lawfare and foreign electoral intervention. By combining kinetic operations with subversive efforts,the aggressor intends to avoid attribution or retribution. The concept of hybrid warfare has been criticized by a number of academics and practitioners due to its alleged vagueness,its disputed constitutive elements,and its alleged historical distortions.
Rod Thornton is a Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London. He previously taught at the University of Kurdistan Hewler in Erbil,Iraq and in the University of Nottingham's department of Politics and International Relations. He was suspended from the University of Nottingham in spring 2011 after publishing an article critical of the University's handling of the arrest of one of its students. He subsequently left the university by "mutual agreement" with the university.
Christopher C. Harmon is an American author,editor and independent scholar. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Brute Krulak Center,Marine Corps University,and Professor at the Institute for World Politics. Dr. Harmon directed the counterterrorism course at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. From 2007-2010 he was director of studies for the program on Terrorism and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. His expertise is in the fields of terrorism and counterterrorism,insurgency and revolutionary warfare,counter-insurgency,and international relations. Starting in 2003,Harmon lectured extensively on "how terrorist groups end," as at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars;his publications in this arena date 2004 - 2014. He inaugurated the Kim T. Adamson Chair in Insurgency and Terrorism at the Marine Corps University,was for four years Horner Chair of Military Theory,and served for twelve years at Quantico as a full professor teaching subjects such as international relations,the theory and nature of war and strategy and policy. For many years he has taught at The Institute of World Politics,a graduate school of national security and international affairs,in Washington,D.C.
Richard H. Shultz,Jr. is an American scholar of international security studies. He is a Professor International Politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,Tufts University,where he is also the director of the International Security Studies Program (ISSP).
Peter Hamish Wilson,FRHistS is a British historian. Since 2015,he has held the Chichele Professor of the History of War chair at All Souls College,University of Oxford.
Bettina Renz is a German political scientist and Professor of International Security at the School of Politics and International Relations,University of Nottingham. Her major research expertise is post-Soviet Russian security and defence policy,military reform and civil-military relations. Since 2005,Renz has published numerous articles in academic journals describing the background and effects of changes in contemporary Russia's military. She is an editorial board member of the United States Army War College Press.
Richard James Aldrich is a British political scientist and a historian of espionage who has written intensively about intelligence and security communities.
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