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Dirty Wars: A Century of Counterinsurgency
Simon Robbins
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Description for Dirty Wars: A Century of Counterinsurgency
Hardback. Who is the enemy? This is the question most asked in modern warfare. From our struggles in Ireland, to the Malayan Emergency, operations in India, Yemen, Kenya, Aden, Palestine, and of course Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan - this book covers the strategy and doctrine of counterinsurgency and how often these operations have been unsuccessful. Num Pages: 368 pages, 32 black & white plates. BIC Classification: HBW; JPWL; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 243 x 36. Weight in Grams: 796.
`Who is the enemy?' This is the question most asked in modern warfare; gone are the set-piece conventional battles of the past. Once seen as secondary to more traditional conflicts, irregular warfare (as modified and refashioned since the 1990s) now presents a major challenge to the state and the bureaucratic institutions which have dominated the twentieth century, and to the politicians and civil servants who formulate policy. Twenty-first-century conflict is dominated by counterinsurgency operations, where the enemy is almost indistinguishable from innocent civilians. Battles are gunfights in jungles, deserts and streets; winning `hearts ... Read more
`Who is the enemy?' This is the question most asked in modern warfare; gone are the set-piece conventional battles of the past. Once seen as secondary to more traditional conflicts, irregular warfare (as modified and refashioned since the 1990s) now presents a major challenge to the state and the bureaucratic institutions which have dominated the twentieth century, and to the politicians and civil servants who formulate policy. Twenty-first-century conflict is dominated by counterinsurgency operations, where the enemy is almost indistinguishable from innocent civilians. Battles are gunfights in jungles, deserts and streets; winning `hearts ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752464114
SKU
V9780752464114
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About Simon Robbins
Simon Robbins is an archivist at the Imperial War Museum and the author of British Generalship During the Great War.
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