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Substitution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2021

Isabelle Duyvesteyn
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Universiteit Leiden
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Chapter six looks at the operational and tactical levels of strategy and brings forward the phenomenon of substitution. Substitution, or the waterbed effect, occurs as a result of counter-measures and means a displacement of violent activities towards other targets, tactics, territory or time frames. Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers and Nicaragua’s Sandinist National Liberation Front are the two vignettes treated here. The Tigers are notable for their military defeat in 2009 and the SNLF for their ultimate military success in overthrowing the Somoza dictatorship at the end of the 1970s.

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Rebels and Conflict Escalation
Explaining the Rise and Decline in Violence
, pp. 110 - 125
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Capabilities
  • Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Universiteit Leiden
  • Book: Rebels and Conflict Escalation
  • Online publication: 01 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009008952.007
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  • Capabilities
  • Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Universiteit Leiden
  • Book: Rebels and Conflict Escalation
  • Online publication: 01 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009008952.007
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  • Capabilities
  • Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Universiteit Leiden
  • Book: Rebels and Conflict Escalation
  • Online publication: 01 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009008952.007
Available formats
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