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May 17, 2024 · proxy war, a military conflict in which one or more third parties directly or indirectly support one or more state or nonstate combatants in an effort to influence the conflict’s outcome and thereby to advance their own strategic interests or to undermine those of their opponents.
Today proxy warfare is best defined as sponsorship of conventional or irregular forces that lie outside the constitutional order of states. • Analytical attention on conflict has generally fixated on outdated Cold War models or focused on state-sponsored terrorism, the impact of external support in civil wars, and the efficacy of ...
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The contemporary dynamics of proxy warfare will make it a significant feature of the character of conflict in the future. Andrew Mumford idenifies four major changes in the nature of modern warfare and argues that they point to a potential increase in the engagement of proxy strategies by states: the decreased public and political appetite in ...
ciples of proxy warfare that should be used as the starting point for continued discussions on proxyism. the spirit of the age and Its General Character Proxy environments dominate modern war. As figure 1 illustrates, a quick scan of the globe shows proxies fighting on behalf of partners from Ukraine’s Donbas region to the Euphra-
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Abstract. This chapter explores how theorists and practitioners have historically defined proxy warfare, the limits and scope of existing state-centric research into proxy warfare, and the ways that proxy conflicts have become more complex in recent years.
During the Cold War, proxy warfare was often a tool of major powers, such as the United States, Soviet Union, and China. In the post–Cold War era, proxy wars were often used by weaker, less capable states. Unfortunately, at the time our research was conducted (2020), systematic data on the incidence of proxy wars after 2010 were not publicly ...
Alex Marshall. Department of Modern History, University of Glasgow, UK. ABSTRACT. The use of surrogate or ‘proxy’ actors within the context of ‘irregular’ or guerrilla conflict within or between states constitutes a phenomenon spanning nearly the whole of recorded human military history.
