Understanding Victory And Defeat In Contemporary War

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Summary

Bringing together leading contributors in the field, this volume analyzes how victory and defeat in modern war can be understood and explained.

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List of illustrations	p. xiii
Notes on contributors	p. xiv
Preface and acknowledgements	p. xvii
Introduction: the problem of victory and defeat in modern war	p. 1
The nature of victory and defeat in modern war	p. 11
Defining postwar victory	p. 13
In the eye of the beholder: victory and defeat in US military operations	p. 46
Victory, counter-insurgency and Iraq	p. 77
The United States perspective on victory in the war on terrorism	p. 94
Explaining victory and defeat in modern war	p. 115
Paradoxes of the strategy of terrorism	p. 117
How to lose a war on terror: a comparative analysis of a counterinsurgency success and failure	p. 142
The origins and implications of Western counterinsurgency failures	p. 168
Toppling the Taliban in Afghanistan	p. 187
Culture and the outcome of military intervention: developing some hypotheses	p. 206
Understanding victory and defeat: some conclusions	p. 224
Index	p. 235
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