Latin America's New Security Reality: Irregular Asymmetric Conflict and Hugo Chavez

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Latin America's New Security Reality: Irregular Asymmetric Conflict and Hugo Chavez
Dr. Max G. Manwaring
U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute
August 24, 2007

69 pages

Available here: http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute....cfm?pubID=808

Summary:

In 2005, Dr. Manwaring wrote a monograph entitled Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Bolivarian Socialism, and Asymmetric Warfare. It came at a time when the United States and Venezuela were accelerating a verbal sparing match regarding which country was destabilizing Latin America more. President Chavez shows no sign of standing down; he slowly and deliberately centralizes his power in Venezuela, and carefully and adroitly articulates his Bolivarian dream (the idea of a Latin American Liberation Movement against U.S. economic and political imperialism). Yet, most North Americans dismiss Chavez as a “nut case,” or—even if he is a threat to the security and stability of the Hemisphere—the possibilities of that threat coming to fruition are too far into the future to worry about. Dr. Manwaring’s intent is to explain in greater depth what President Chavez is doing and how he is doing it. First, he explains that Hugo Chavez’s threat is straightforward, and that it is being translated into a consistent, subtle, ambiguous, and ambitious struggle for power that is beginning to insinuate itself into political life in much of the Western Hemisphere. Second, he shows how President Chavez is encouraging his Venezuelan and other followers to pursue a confrontational, populist, and nationalistic agenda that will be achieved only by (1) radically changing the traditional politics of the Venezuelan state—and other Latin American states—to that of “direct” (totalitarian) democracy; (2) destroying North American hegemony throughout all of Latin America by conducting an irregular Fourth-Generation War “Super Insurgency”; and, (3) country-by-country, building a great new Bolivarian state out of a phased Program for the Liberation of Latin America.

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What is new? This is a little wordy but nothing new...

PHD saying Chavez is a Wack Job and trying to take over Latin America.

Every one in 7th SFGA Knows that.

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Originally Posted by SF_BHT

What is new? This is a little wordy but nothing new...

PHD saying Chavez is a Wack Job and trying to take over Latin America.

Every one in 7th SFGA Knows that.

LOL

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Perhaps Dr. Max should actually talk to a Venezuelan. The only problem with his theory is that in order for it to work, somebody has to fight. And they won't. And, everybody hates them.

They've never even had a good wrestling match in that country, much less a shootin' war.

Chavez' dream will go the way of Che - dying in a ditch surrounded by his betters.

Super insurgency my ass...