Hardback. New. Offers an analysis of al Qaeda and its associated networks, with a particular focus on ideology and culture. This book details the challenges that big powers face when they prosecute counterinsurgencies, using examples from Russian, American, and British counterinsurgent wars during and before the twentieth century. ISBN 0275989909 9780275989903 [GB]

ISBN10: 0275989909, ISBN13: 9780275989903, [publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Since September 2001, the United States has waged what the government initially called the global war on terrorism (GWOT). Beginning in late 2005 and early 2006, the term Long War began to appear in U.S. security documents such as the National Security Council's National Strategy for Victory in Iraq and in statements by the U.S. Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the JCS. The description Long War-unlimited in time and space and continuing for decades-is closer to reality and more useful than GWOT.Colonel Robert Cassidy argues that this protracted struggle is more correctly viewed as a global insurgency and counterinsurgency. Al Qaeda and its affiliates, he maintains, comprise a novel and evolving form of networked insurgents who operate globally, harnessing the advantages of globalization and the information age. They employ terrorism as a tactic, subsuming terror within their overarching aim of undermining the Western-dominated system of states. Placing the war against al Qaeda and its allied groups and organizations in the context of a global insurgency has vital implications for doctrine, interagency coordination, and military cultural change-all reviewed in this important work.Cassidy combines the foremost maxims of the most prominent Western philosopher of war and the most renowned Eastern philosopher of war ...
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ISBN10: 0275989909, ISBN13: 9780275989903, [publisher: Praeger Security Int.] Hardcover VIII; 211 S. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - World War X: The Revolution in Global Insurgency -- Big Powers and Small Wars: The Paradoxes of Asymmetric Conflict -- Russian Military Culture and Counterinsurgency: Pavlov Meets Jihad -- British Military Culture and Countermsurgency: Less Is Better -- American Military Culture and Counterinsurgency: Another Street Without Joy -- Success in Countermsurgency -- Notes Bibliography. // Since September 2001, the United States has waged what the government initially called the "global war on terrorism (GWOT)." Beginning in late 2005 and early 2006, the term Long War began to appear in U.S. security documents such as the National Security Council's National Strategy for Victory in Iraq and in statements by the U.S. Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the JCS. The description Long War-unlimited in time and space and continuing for decades-is closer to reality and more useful than GWOT. Colonel Robert Cassidy argues that this protracted struggle is more correctly viewed as a global insurgency and coun-terinsurgency, AI Qaeda and its affiliates, he maintains, comprise a novel and evolving form of networked insurgents who operate globally, harnessing the advantages of globalization and the information age. They employ terrorism as a tactic, subsuming terror within their overarching aim of undermining the Western-dominated ...
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Westport, CT Praeger 2006 Hard cover New. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 224 p. Praeger Security International.

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Westport, CT Praeger Security International 2000 Hardcover Fine in Fine jacket 211pp. Owner's signature on endpaper. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.

Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, Date: 2000. 211pp. Owner's signature on endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 2000. Praeger Security International ISBN 0275989909 9780275989903 [US]