The problem of force grappling with the global battlefield
Why, despite indisputably superior military might, have the US-led military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq been so fraught with setbacks? Does it make sense in today's security environment to use military force to achieve strategic objectives? How does the contemporary battlefield functi...
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Bounder, Colo.
Lynne Rienner Publishers
2009
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The problem of force |b grappling with the global battlefield |c Simon W. Murden |
| 260 | |a Bounder, Colo. |b Lynne Rienner Publishers |c 2009 | ||
| 300 | |a ix, 233 p. |b ill., maps |c 24 cm | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a War and warfare in the early twenty-first century -- Mapping contemporary insurgency -- Mapping contemporary intervention -- The origins of the War on Terror, 1991-2001 -- The war in Afghanistan -- Planning the Iraq war -- What went wrong in Iraq? -- The surge experiment in Iraq -- Whither the War on Terror? | |
| 520 | |a Why, despite indisputably superior military might, have the US-led military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq been so fraught with setbacks? Does it make sense in today's security environment to use military force to achieve strategic objectives? How does the contemporary battlefield function? Addressing these questions, Simon Murden explores the contradictions inherent in attempting to combat global terrorist networks by intervening in complex, local social settings. Murden proposes two approaches to better understand the nature of contemporary warfare: one focusing on the nature of insurgency and the other on the dynamics of intervention. Applying these approaches to the cases of Iraq and Afghanistan, he offers important conclusions about the shortcomings of US strategy in the global war on terror. | ||
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