Understanding victory and defeat in contemporary war /
Angstrom, Jan.
Duyvesteyn, Isabelle,1972-
London ; New York : Routledge,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the problem of victory and defeat in modern war / Jan Angstrom -- Defining postwar victory / Robert Mandel -- In the eye of the beholder : victory and defeat in US military operations / Dominic Johnson and Dominic Tierney -- Victory, counter-insurgency and Iraq -- Ian F.W. Beckett -- The United States perspective on victory in the war on terrorism / Jan Angstrom -- Paradoxes of the strategy of terrorism / Isabelle Duyvesteyn -- How to lose a war on terror : a comparative analysis of a counterinsurgency success and failure / Ivan Arreguin-Toft -- The origins and implications of Western counterinsurgency failures / Gil Merom -- Toppling the Taliban in Afghanistan / Stephen Biddle -- Culture and the outcome of military intervention : developing some hypotheses / Kersti Larsdotter -- Understanding victory and defeat : some conclusions / Isabelle Duyvesteyn.
War.
Military art and science