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Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture
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Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture

by Kerry M. Kartchner, Briana D. Bowen, Jeannie L. Johnson
October 2023
Intermediate to advanced
570 pages
24h 55m
English
Routledge
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10 Strategic Culture at the Non-State Actor Level

Edward D. Last

DOI: 10.4324/9781003010302-12

Introduction

The concept of strategic culture emerged during the Cold War to analyze the ideational basis of states’ strategic behavior, beginning with the Soviet Union,1 followed by the United States2 and a host of other countries. More recently strategic culture has been applied to supranational actors such as the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, sub-state actors such as the different branches of the US military,3 including the Marines,4 and violent non-state actors (VNSAs), particularly Al-Qaeda5 as well as Islamic State.6 Your author’s own work compares the strategic culture of Al-Qaeda with that of its franchise, Al-Qaeda ...

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