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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Table of Contents:
- 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?