Descript |
xiii, 434 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
Contents |
A "happy combination of clemency with firmness." The small wars prologue -- The road from Sedan -- The paroxysms of imperial might in the shadow of the Great war -- From Tipperary to Tel Aviv: British counterinsurgency in the shadow of World War II -- From small wars to la guerre subversive. The radicalization and collapse of French counterinsurgency -- Vietnam, counterinsurgency, and the American way of war -- "A conspiracy of heroes" - Revolution and counterinsurgency in Latin America -- Building the "most successful counter-insurgency school" - COIN as the British way of war -- Britain's thirty years' war in Northern Ireland -- Vietnam with a happy ending - Iraq and "the surge" -- Conclusion. |
ISBN |
9781107699847 |
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1107699843 |
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