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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare. A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, his vision of war influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the Surge." In Counterinsurgency, Kilcullen brings together his most salient writings on this key topic. At the heart of the book is his "Twenty-Eight Articles." He shows company...
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Publisher
Texas A & M University Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"War is waged not only on battlefields. In the mid-1980s a high-stakes political struggle to redesign the relationships among the president, secretary of defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and warfighting commanders in the field resulted in the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986. Author James R. Locher III played a key role in the congressional effort to repair a dysfunctional military whose interservice squabbling had cost American...
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Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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This book analyzes the evolution of Russian military thought and how Russia's current thinking about war is reflected in recent crises. While other books describe current Russian practice, Oscar Jonsson provides the much needed long view to show how Russian military strategic thinking has developed from the Bolshevik Revolution to the present. He closely examines Russian primary sources including security doctrines and the writings and statements...
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Series
Contributions in political science volume no. 70
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
