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DIRTY WARS
A HISTORY OF BRITISH COUNTERINSURGENCY |
| By: |
Simon Robbins |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£19.20 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0752479008 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780752479002 |
| Publisher: |
THE HISTORY PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
30 November, 2011 |
| Synopsis: |
Who is the enemy? This is the question most asked in modern warfare; gone are the staged battles of the past. Twentieth and twenty-first century conflict is dominated by counterinsurgency operations, where the enemy is almost indistinguishable from innocent civilians. Battles are gunfights in jungles, deserts and streets; winning hearts and minds; is as important as winning territoryFrom our struggles in Ireland, to the Malayan Emergency, operations in India, Yemen, Kenya, Aden, Palestine, and of course Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan; this book covers the strategy and doctrine of counterinsurgency and how often these operations have been spectacularly unsuccessful, leaving us embedded in a hostile population, immersed in costly and dangerous nation-building.Through the experiences of Special Forces operatives we learn what it is like to fight a war in the shadows, against an enemy that can disappear as quickly as it is located. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
The History Press Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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