Venezuela As An Exporter Of Fourth Generation Warfare Instability

This monograph comes at a time when there are well over 100 ongoing small, unconventional, asymmetric, and revolutionary wars in which hegemonic states and their proxies and violent nonstate actors are helping their own organizations or political patrons bring about radical change and acquire putative power. Accordingly, the author of this monograph, Dr. Max Manwaring, examines a cogent case that illustrates how would-be revolutionaries all around the world might seek to realize their dreams. They would include populists and neo-populists; the New Left, New Socialists, and 21st Century Socialists; criminal nonstate actors, agitators, gangs, and popular militias; and other “modern mercenaries.” The Strategic Studies Institute is pleased to offer this monograph as part v
of its continuing effort to inform the security debate, and to help strategic leaders better understand the realities of modern asymmetric war.