ABSTRACT

This article examines the role of siege warfare and population control in the coercive counterinsurgency strategy used by the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad to effectively crush the revolution that began in 2011. We extend the coercive counterinsurgency framework offered by Monica Duffy Toft and Yuri Zhukov to analyze the Syrian regime’s use of the twin tactical pillars of siege warfare and population control. We focus on how these two types of denial – military and political – proved essential to the regime’s military victory.

中文翻译：

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既不是和平也不是民主：围困和人口控制在叙利亚政权强制平叛运动中的作用

摘要

本文探讨了攻城战和人口控制在叙利亚巴沙尔·阿萨德政权用来有效镇压 2011 年开始的革命的强制平叛战略中的作用。我们扩展了 Monica Duffy Toft 和 Yuri Zhukov 提供的强制平叛框架分析叙利亚政权对攻城战和人口控制这两个战术支柱的使用。我们关注这两种类型的否认——军事的和政治的——如何证明对政权的军事胜利至关重要。