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Understanding victory and defeat in contemporary war
xviii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Introduction : the problem of victory and defeat in modern war / Jan Angstrom -- Defining postwar victory / Robert Mandel -- In the eye of the beholder : victory and defeat in US military operations / Dominic Johnson and Dominic Tierney -- Victory, counter-insurgency and Iraq -- Ian F.W. Beckett -- The United States perspective on victory in the war on terrorism / Jan Angstrom -- Paradoxes of the strategy of terrorism / Isabelle Duyvesteyn -- How to lose a war on terror : a comparative analysis of a counterinsurgency success and failure / 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.
edited by Jan Angstrom and Isabelle Duyvesteyn.
Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.