Adapting to win : how insurgents fight and defeat foreign states in war

Adapting to win : how insurgents fight and defeat foreign states in war / Noriyuki Katagiri.

"When insurgent groups challenge powerful states, defeat is not always inevitable. Increasingly, guerrilla forces have overcome enormous disadvantages and succeeded in extending the period of violent conflict, raising the costs of war, and occasionally winning. Noriyuki Katagiri investigates th...

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Main Author: Katagiri, Noriyuki (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Insurgency.
Insurgency > Case studies.
Asymmetric warfare.
Asymmetric warfare > Case studies.
Guerrilla warfare.
Guerrilla warfare > Case studies.
Non-state actors (International relations)
Non-state actors (International relations) > Case studies.
Strategy.
guerrilla warfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Security (National & International)
Asymmetric warfare
Guerrilla warfare
Insurgency
Strategy
Case studies
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Table of Contents:
  • How do insurgents fight and defeat foreign states in war?
  • Origins and proliferation of sequencing
  • How sequencing theory works
  • The conventional model: the Dahomean war (1890-1894)
  • The primitive model: Malayan emergency (1948-1960)
  • The degenerative model: the Iraq war (2003-2011)
  • The premature model: the Anglo-Somali war (1900-1920)
  • The Maoist model: the Guinean War of Independence (1963-1974)
  • The progressive model: the Indochina war (1946-1954).

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