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Adapting to Win : How Insurgents Fight and Defeat Foreign States in War.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (310 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812290134
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Adapting to WinDDC classification:
  • 355.02/1801
LOC classification:
  • JC328.5 -- .K38 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- 1. How Do Insurgents Fight and Defeat Foreign States in War? -- 2. Origins and Proliferation of Sequencing -- 3. How Sequencing Theory Works -- 4. The Conventional Model: The Dahomean War (1890-1894) -- 5. The Primitive Model: Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) -- 6. The Degenerative Model: The Iraq War (2003-2011) -- 7. The Premature Model: The Anglo-Somali War (1900-1920) -- 8. The Maoist Model: The Guinean War of Independence (1963-1974) -- 9. The Progressive Model: The Indochina War (1946-1954) -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. List of Extrasystemic Wars (1816-2010) -- Appendix B. Description of 148 Wars and Sequences -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- Q -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Through case studies of violent insurgent groups pitted against foreign state powers, including in-depth examinations of the war in Afghanistan and the 2003 Iraq war, Adapting to Win examines the circumstances and tactics that allow some insurgencies to succeed in wars against foreign governments while others fail.
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Cover -- Contents -- 1. How Do Insurgents Fight and Defeat Foreign States in War? -- 2. Origins and Proliferation of Sequencing -- 3. How Sequencing Theory Works -- 4. The Conventional Model: The Dahomean War (1890-1894) -- 5. The Primitive Model: Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) -- 6. The Degenerative Model: The Iraq War (2003-2011) -- 7. The Premature Model: The Anglo-Somali War (1900-1920) -- 8. The Maoist Model: The Guinean War of Independence (1963-1974) -- 9. The Progressive Model: The Indochina War (1946-1954) -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. List of Extrasystemic Wars (1816-2010) -- Appendix B. Description of 148 Wars and Sequences -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- Q -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

Through case studies of violent insurgent groups pitted against foreign state powers, including in-depth examinations of the war in Afghanistan and the 2003 Iraq war, Adapting to Win examines the circumstances and tactics that allow some insurgencies to succeed in wars against foreign governments while others fail.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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