Counterinsurgency : exposing the myths of the new way of war / Douglas Porch.
Counterinsurgency : exposing the myths of the new way of war / Douglas Porch.
Counterinsurgency : exposing the myths of the new way of war / Douglas Porch.
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New York : Cambridge University Press, c2013.
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G 2014/1723
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English
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xiii, 434 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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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 World War II era -- From small wars to la guerre subversive : the radica...
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New York : Cambridge University Press, c2013.
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New York (State)
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c2013.
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Counterinsurgency has staked its claim in the new century as the new American way of war. Yet, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have revived a historical debate about the costs - monetary, political and moral - of operations designed to eliminate insurgents and build nations. Today's counterinsurgency proponents point to 'small wars' past to suppor...
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Counterinsurgency : exposing the myths of the new way of war / Douglas Porch.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [400]-416) and index.
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c2013.
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G 2014/1723
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74VKM57ZVqE3
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9781107027381 (hbk.)
9781107699847 (pbk.)
1107699843 (pbk.)
1107027381 (hbk.)
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355.02/18
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991021394699702626
