Bad Strategies: How Major Powers Fail in Counterinsurgency
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780760330807 (0760330808)
ASIN: 760330808
Publish date: August 15th 2008
Publisher: Zenith Press
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
This book covers four major failed post-WW2 counterinsurgencies (France in Algeria, Britain in Cyprus, USA in Vietnam and again in Iraq) and attempts to identify the causes. Some of them are common across all four (prioritizing military operations over civil projects, ignoring legitimate expertise i...