Victory among people : lessons from countering insurgency and stabilising fragile states
2011
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Total copies: 1
Main title:
Victory among people : lessons from countering insurgency and stabilising fragile states / edited by David Richards and Greg Mills ; forwords by Stanley McChrystal ... [et al.].
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Imprint:
London : Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, c2011.
Collation:
xviii, 478 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Published in association with the Brenthurst Foundation.Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Forewords / Stanley McChrystal, Juan Manuel Santos, John A. Kufour, Soren Pind -- Introduction: contemporary insurgency / Greg Mills and David Richards -- A soldier's perspective on contemporary insurgency / David Richards -- Contemporary insurgencies by preventing insurgencies / Paula G. Thornhill -- From insurgency to stability to development: in Afghanistan as Africa / Anthony Arnott and Greg Mills -- Special operations and instability: a military investment strategy / Michael A. Lewis -- Intelligence in low-intensity conflicts: lessons from Afghanistan / Adam Cobb -- The role of media operations / Christopher Vernon -- Failure to communicate: "producing" the war in Afghanistan / David Betz -- Ethiopia and Eritrea: the failure of counter-insurgency / Christopher Clapham -- Peace-building in practice: a personal perspective on Liberia and the DRC / Alan Doss -- The military role in political victory: South Africa, Namibia and apartheid / Greg Mills and David Williams -- Who dares, loses? The relevance of Rhodesia-Zimbabwe / Greg Mills and Grahame Wilson -- Rwanda: Putting the insurgency boot on the other foot / Greg Mills -- Sierra Leone: 'Pregnant with lessons' / David Richards -- Somalia: insurgency and legitimacy in the context of state collapse / J. Peter Pham -- The campaign against the LRA: old wine in new bottles / Sandrine Perrot -- Countering the terrorist insurgency in Bangladesh / A. N. M. Muniruzzaman -- Countering the instability in Kashmir / Ved Prakash Malik -- The Southern Thailand insurgency / Alastair Leithead -- The lessons from Northern Ireland: comparisons with Iraq and Afghanistan / Chris Brown -- Coke isn't it: changing a culture and image of violence in Colombia / Greg Mills -- El Salvador: when the insurgents (finally) take over / Greg Mills.
ISBN:
9780855161637 (PB)0855161639 (PB)
LC class:
JC328.5JC328.5 VIC
Language:
English
BRN:
3325