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Understanding victory and defeat in contemporary war / edited by Jan Angstrom and Isabelle Duyvesteyn.
| Other author | Angstrom, Jan. |
| Other author | Duyvesteyn, Isabelle, 1972- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Routledge, |
| Description | p. cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Contemporary security studies |
| Contents | Preface -- The problem of victory and defeat in modern war -- Jan Angstrom -- The nature of victory and defeat in modern war -- Defining post-war victory -- Robert Mandel -- In the eye of the beholder: victory and defeat in U.S. military operations -- Dominic Johnson & Dominic Tierney -- Victory, counter-insurgency and Iraq -- Ian Beckett -- The United States perspective on victory in a war on terrorism -- Jan Angstrom -- Explaining victory and defeat in modern war -- The paradoxes of the strategy of terrorism -- Isabelle Duyvesteyn -- How to lose a war on terror: a comparative analysis of counterinsurgency -- Successes and failures -- Ivan Arreguin-Toft -- The origins and implications of Western counterinsurgency failures -- Gil Merom -- Toppling the Taliban in Afghanistan -- Stephen Biddle -- Culture and the outcome of military intervention: developing some hypotheses -- Kersti Larsdotter -- Understanding victory and defeat: some conclusions -- Isabelle Duyvesteyn. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006018382 |
| ISBN | 0415404576 (hardback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |